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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is an 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.
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Canadian Minister of Movies: Now, now, the Canadian government has apologized for Bryan Adams on numerous occasions!
FUCK SHIT COCK ASS TITTIES BONER BITCH MUFF PUSSY CUNT BUTTHOLE BARBRA STREISAND!
I can't wait for our first shore leave so I can get me some fucking poontang.
to the Mole I heard you the first time, you British piece of shit! gets shocked by the V-chip
for no reason I hate you Kenny.
Sheila Broflovski: Remember what the MPAA says; Horrific, Deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any naughty words! That's what this war is all about!
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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is an 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 and Warner Bros. in association with Comedy Central (the former studio distributed in the US, and the latter studio internationally).
This film is rated R by the MPAA and 15 by the BBFC for pervasive vulgar language, crude sexual humor, and violence.
Plot
Stan, Kenny, Kyle and Cartman pay a bum to buy them tickets to get into the movie 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 to get Wendy to like him more than any other guy, and he absentmindedly recommends that Stan find the clitoris, although Stan doesn't understand what the clitoris is.
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. He is immediately rushed to the hospital, where a George Clooney-esque doctor performs an inept surgery. Kenny subsequently dies when the potato (used in lieu of a heart) bursts in his chest. His spirit floats out of his body and he approaches the pearly gates, however, as Kenny pushes the entrance button, his access is denied and he falls into Hell.
Mrs. Broflovski leads the parents to form "Mothers Against Canada" and capture Terrance and Phillip. When the United States refuses to release them at a U.N. meeting to discuss the situation and ridicule the Canadian Ambassador's accent, the Canadians respond by bombing the residence of the Baldwin brothers. The United States issues a televised declaration of war on Canada and orders the execution of "war criminals" Terrance and Phillip. Mothers Against Canada expands its efforts and becomes a violently anti-Canadian group promoting the internment of those with Canadian descent, leading to Kyle being forced to hide his adopted brother Ike in the attic due to his Canadian heritage. When Mrs. Broflovski overhears Cartman singing "Kyle's Mom Is a Bitch", he is forced to have a "V-Chip" placed in his brain, though unlike its namesake, this V-Chip shocks him if he uses profanity.
Meanwhile, in Hell, Kenny discovers that Satan and Saddam Hussein are lovers, with Saddam acting as a dominating influence over Satan. 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 by electric chair during a USO show.
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. Mrs. Broflovski orders it to start.
Suddenly, a Canadian attack begins. Cartman rushes to turn off the electric chairs and receives an electric shock that causes the V-Chip to malfunction. The Americans and Canadians start battling each other. Thrown to the ground by a nearby bomb blast, Stan sees a vision of a giant 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. Stan, Kyle and the rest of "La Resistance" confront them and Kyle finally decides to stand up to his mother 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. Cartman launches into a series of vulgar rants, using the electricity to attack Saddam. Saddam calls for Satan to help, insulting him in the process, 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; before returning to Hell, Kenny pulls back his hood (revealing his face for the first time in South Park history) to say goodbye to his friends. 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 with angel wings flying into heaven.
Voice cast
Lead voices
- Trey Parker - Stan Marsh, Eric Cartman, Satan, Clyde Donovan, Mr. Garrison, Phillip Niles Argyle, Randy Marsh, Mr. Mackey, Ned Gerblanski, Army General, Tom - News Reporter, Midget In A Bikini, Canadian Ambassador, Bombardiers, Gregory (speaking), The Mole, Bill Clinton, Additional voices
- Matt Stone - Kyle Broflovski, Kenny McCormick, Saddam Hussein, Terrance Henry Stoot, Big Gay Al, Jimbo Kearn, Gerald Broflovski, Bill Gates, Additional voices
- Mary Kay Bergman - Liane Cartman, Sheila Broflovski, Carol McCormick, Sharon Marsh, Wendy Testaburger, Shelly Marsh, Clitoris, Additional voices
- Isaac Hayes - Chef
- Jesse Howell, Anthony Cross-Thomas, Franchesca Clifford - Ike Broflovski
Guest voices
Additional voices
Soundtrack
DVD release
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was released on DVD on November 23, 1999 in the US, and in the UK on the March 23, 2000. Being one of the early DVD releases, extra features are lacking. No collector's edition DVD or Blu-Ray release has been announced, though a UMD version for the Sony PSP has been released in the UK.
Broadcast
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 occasions. It is unknown if it intends to show it again as the channel no longer broadcasts the TV series since season 7. In Canada TeleToon shows the film in its uncensored entirety.
Reception
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. In 2008, the film was included in Entertainment Weekly's list of the "25 Movie Sequels We'd Line Up to See" and "The Funniest Movies of the Past 25 Years".
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). In effect, 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 [abusive] lover. 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.
The film opened at #4 with a gross of $14,774,666 over the 4-day Independence Day weekend from 2,128 theaters for an average of $6,943 per theater ($11,335,889 and an average of $5,327 over three days) and a total of $23,078,186 since its Wednesday launch. It ended up with a gross of $83,137,603 worldwide ($52,037,603 in the United States and Canada and an additional $31,100,000 internationally).
Awards
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".
Other awards
- American Film Foundation: Nominated for The E Pluribus Unum Award For Feature Film
- Nominated for 3 Annie Awards,
- Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Theatrical Feature
- Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production for Mary Kay Bergman as "Sheila Broflovski"
- Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Feature Production
- MTV Movie Award: Won, Best Musical Performance for Uncle Fucka
- Chicago Film Critics Association: Won for Best Original Score
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Won for Best Animated Feature
- Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards: Nominated for Best Animated Film
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards: Won for Best Music
- Motion Picture Sound Editors: Won for Best Sound Editing - Music - Animation, Nominated for Best Sound Editing - Animated Feature
- Online Film Critics Society Awards: Won for Best Original Score
- Satellite Awards: Nominated for Best Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media and Best Original Song for Quiet Mountain Town
- The film has been nominated by the American Film Institute for their list of the Greatest American Musicals.
- In 2006, South Park finished fifth in the United Kingdom's Channel 4's 50 Greatest Comedy Films vote.
- In 2006, readers of Empire Magazine voted this the 166th greatest film of all time.
- In 2001, Terry Gilliam selected it as one of the ten best animated films of all time.
- In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted this the 13th greatest comedy film of all time.
- The film is fifth on Bravo's 100 Funniest Movies.
See also
- South Park
- Canada–United States relations
- List of musicals
- Censorship
- List of films that most frequently use the word "fuck"
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