| South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut | |
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| Directed by | Trey Parker |
| Produced by | Trey Parker Matt Stone |
| Written by | Trey Parker Matt Stone Pam Brady |
| Starring | Trey Parker Matt Stone Mary Kay Bergman Isaac Hayes George Clooney Eric Idle Mike Judge |
| Music by | Trey Parker Marc Shaiman |
| Distributed by | USA: Paramount Pictures Non-USA: Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | June 30, 1999 |
| Running time | 81 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | US$21,000,000 |
| Gross revenue | $83,137,603 |
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is an Academy Award-nominated animated satirical comedy/musical film released in 1999 and based on the animated series South Park. The film parodies animated Disney films such as Beauty and the Beast and the Broadway musical Les Misérables, and satirizes the controversy surrounding itself. It features twelve songs by Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman with additional lyrics by Matt Stone. The song "Blame Canada" was nominated for an Academy Award and the song "Uncle Fucka" won an MTV Movie Award for Best Musical Performance. It was produced by Paramount Pictures in association with Comedy Central, but was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures outside of the US.
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Stan, Kenny, Kyle and Cartman sneak into a theatre to watch the film Asses of Fire, a movie starring fictional Canadians Terrance and Phillip. The movie turns out to be three hours of non-stop profanity, and so the boys come out with more foul language in their vocabulary than ever before. They utter many of the profanities in the film to their peers, causing most of the rest of the student body to eventually sneak in to watch the film and subsequently utter similar profanities. When their mothers find out, the enraged members of South Park's PTA, led by Kyle's mother, Sheila Broflovski, try to ban the film. Meanwhile, Wendy Testaburger, Stan's crush, starts hanging out with Gregory of Yardale, a new and better educated transfer student, to whom Stan takes an instant dislike. Stan asks Chef for advice, and he recommends that Stan find the clitoris, although Stan does not know what he means.
After watching the film again, Cartman and Kenny get into a fight over whether it is possible to light farts on fire like Terrance does in the movie. Kenny tries it and bursts into flames. Kenny later dies and ends up in hell.
Mrs. Broflovski leads the parents to form "Mothers Against Canada" and capture Terrance and Phillip. The Canadians respond by bombing the residence of the Baldwin brothers. The United States declares war on Canada and orders the execution of "war criminals" Terrance and Phillip. When Mrs. Broflovski overhears Cartman singing "Kyle's Mom Is a Bitch", he is forced to have a V-Chip placed in his brain in order to prevent him from swearing.
Meanwhile in hell, Satan is torturing Kenny when Saddam Hussein appears and reveals that he is Satan's lover. When Satan discovers that a war has started on Earth, he says with delight that it has been prophesied that he can return to earth once the blood of "the innocent" touches the ground. Saddam makes no secret of the fact that he wants to rule the Earth, but Satan cannot stand up to him. Kenny suggests that Satan leave Saddam, and although Satan agrees with Kenny's suggestion, he cannot bring himself to do it, and they agree to go to the surface together.
With Terrance and Phillip set to be executed, and with the war on Canada, Kyle, Stan, and Cartman ask themselves "What Would Brian Boitano Do?" and decide to form "La Resistance" to save Terrance and Phillip. Gregory comes up with a daring plan to rescue Terrance and Phillip. Stan is convinced that Wendy will like him more than Gregory if he is more "political" and volunteers to go on the mission. Stan, Kyle, and Cartman are sent to find a god-hating French boy named "The Mole". The Mole agrees to help them rescue Terrance and Phillip, who are to be executed in the electric chair during a USO show. With Canadians being taken away to "death camps", Kyle is forced to hide his adopted brother Ike (who is Canadian) in an attic.
The USO show begins, and the boys start executing the plan. Cartman, tasked with turning off the power shortly before the execution begins, is frightened when the ghost of Kenny warns him that Saddam and Satan are coming. Cartman runs away without turning off the power, causing the Mole to be spotted and killed by guard dogs. Kyle and Stan desperately run to the stage to prevent the execution, but Kyle cannot bring himself to stand up to his mom. Ms. Broflovski orders it to start.
Suddenly a Canadian attack begins. Cartman rushes to turn off the electric chairs and receives a mild jolt that causes the V-Chip to malfunction. The Americans and Canadians start battling each other. Stan finds the "clitoris" which tells him to save Terrance and Phillip. He asks about Wendy, and the clitoris tells him to be confident because "chicks love confidence". Terrance and Phillip try to escape but the American forces and Mrs. Broflovski corner them. However, Stan, Kyle, and the rest of "La Resistance" stand in front of them. Kyle finally decides to stand up to his mom and says he wants her to stop fighting all these battles and to just be his mom. She ignores him and shoots Terrance and Phillip in the head.
When their blood touches the ground, Satan and Saddam burst out from hell and begin wreaking havoc. Satan is quickly pushed aside by Saddam, who makes everyone bow down to him while Satan watches. Kenny insists that Satan should stand up to Saddam. Cartman discovers that the jolt to the V-Chip gave him the power to shoot electricity when he swears, which he does with gusto, and attacks Saddam. Saddam calls for Satan to help, but Satan has finally had enough and kills Saddam.
Satan thanks Kenny for his help and grants him one wish. Kenny wishes for everything to return to how it was before the war, even though he will go back to hell. Satan grants his wish and everything returns to normal. Wendy kisses Stan and says she never liked Gregory. Everyone sings a song about their happy ending and, in the final scene, Kenny is shown on his way to heaven.
A brief "bonus scene" after the credits shows Ike eating a mouse while waiting in the attic.
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was released on DVD on November 23, 1999 in the US. It was also released on DVD in the UK on the March 23, 2000 rated 15 by the BBFC for Very Strong Language.
The film in the USA sometimes broadcasts on Comedy Central with a TV-MA LSV rating and in the UK, Channel 4 has also broadcast the film on a couple of occassions in the UK in the past although if it intends to now is unknown as it no longer broadcasts the TV series since seasonn 9
Film critics were generally enthusiastic about the film as an intelligent and entertaining piece of political satire. It has an 80% rating at Rotten Tomatoes.[1] In 2008, the film was included in Entertainment Weekly's list of the "25 Movie Sequels We'd Line Up to See"[2] and "The Funniest Movies of the Past 25 Years".[3]
The movie's use of profanity gained it a spot in the 2001 edition of Guinness World Records for "Most Swearing in an Animated Film" (399 profane words, including 146 uses of fuck, 79 uses of shit, and 66 uses of bitch, 128 offensive gestures and 221 acts of violence). One every six seconds.
There is an urban myth that the film was also banned in Iraq, for its depiction of Saddam Hussein as Satan's lover.[4] While the real Saddam was on trial for genocide charges in 2006, Matt Stone joked that the U.S. military was showing the movie repeatedly to the former dictator as a form of torture.[5]
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was nominated for an Oscar for "Best Music, Original Song" for "Blame Canada". They lost to Phil Collins and made fun of him in two consecutive episodes in season 4 ("Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000" and "Timmy 2000"). Creator Trey Parker explained the reasoning for these barbs in the season 4 DVD commentary, saying "we were fully expecting to lose, just not to Phil Collins". "Blame Canada" was performed by Robin Williams during the televised award show – this airing was the first awards ceremony to carry a TV-14 parental advisory, due in part to the adult language used in that song. On the telecast Robin Williams performed the song with a full chorus line and inserted the lyrics of the song's reprise from "La Resistance" within the performance. Voice actress Mary Kay Bergman, who provided most of the female voices in the movie, was supposed to perform the song at the Oscars. However Bergman — who had apparently been suffering from a psychological ailment — committed suicide a few months after the film's release. Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone showed up to the Oscars in drag as Jennifer Lopez at the Grammys and Gwyneth Paltrow at the 1998 Oscars.
Another track from the movie, "Uncle Fucka", won an MTV Movie Award for Best Musical Performance; Trey Parker and Matt Stone accepted the award, and thanked the audience for "not nominating Phil Collins".
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