South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

December 12, 2004

Rated: R Runtime: 80 min Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

If you’re a South Park fan at all, you’re going to laugh your butt off in this movie, and I doubt you’ll leave disappointed. However, the impression that was stuck in my head as I left the theater was “what the heck was with all of the freaking songs?” Ok, after hearing Cartman cuss like crazy, “freaking” isn’t really the word that was in my head.

The movie will nearly make you wet your pants at several points in the first half. However one of the gags is that they poke fun at the Disney feature animations with all of their songs. South Park has it’s own flavor of songs, some of which are hysterical. The first 4 or 5 times it is funny. But by the end of the movie, I actually found myself getting annoyed. It seems like every 3-4 minutes one of the characters stops doing anything comical at all and does a song. I’m not sure whether they were trying to fill time or if they honestly thought running that gag in the ground was funny. Given that the movie only manages to run 80 minutes, I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t done at least partially for filler.

The songs were annoying enough to me to make it impossible for me to give the movie the coveted Movies For Guys 5 Star rating, but other than that the thing was a riot and everything you’d expect. There are few boundaries they didn’t waltz right up to and step across with this one. It’s not just language either, they really go over the top, and it’s funny as hell. There’s truly something to offend everyone in this one. And even as jaded as I consider myself to be, I think I picked up a few new phrases for my vocabulary from Eric Cartman.

I did miss a couple of key elements from the TV series too. First off, after all of the bad songs that were in there, they should’ve worked in Primus, who does the TV theme. And second, where the heck was Officer Barbrady?

Despite the overdone musical portions of the movie, it still rocks, go see it. I don’t think any South Park fan should miss this one, however the songs may make it very difficult for me to want to see it twice, at least not too quickly.

Posted by MFG Staff | Filed Under 4 Stars, Comedy, DVD, Isaac Hayes, Matt Stone, R, Trey Parker