Dearest Friends,
I want to recommend THE movie-going experience of the year to you.
I, quite simply, laughed my damn ass off when I went to see "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut". So far, it is the BEST film I've seen this year. Sounds like strange praise for a fart/vulgarity-fest. But this movie is the most ripe, most pointed, most successful satire I've seen since the Zucker Brothers. And, other films I may have mentioned, as good as they are, cannot be BEST film of the year because of Keanu Reeves.
As New City Chicago put it, you cannot be prepared for the offensiveness. Yet, all the film's targets either deserve it, or are over-the-top satire that WORKS. You name it, they satirize it: Satan, Hussein, Broadway, Rankin/Bass, Disney. And mostly, they rip apart that retarded notion that all things entertaining have to cater to "THE CHILDREN". Anyone who's read my previous rants knows that I'm a big supporter of rated R movies being for adults. It's not FOR kids, so screw the little bastards! They have their own programming, they can't have it all.
If you ever saw "The Spirit of Christmas", the original South Park short where Santa and Jesus duke it out to see who Christmas is really about, then you must see "Bigger, Longer and Uncut". Parker and Stone have re-captured the flavor of that short 100%. Plus, it's got Terrance and Philip, what more do you need.
It's frenetically paced, it has GREAT musical numbers and dammit, it's just funny as shit!!!!!!!!
It's been 12 years since I saw a movie THREE times in one week. I've been thrice to South Park. Trust me, you'll piss yourself.
-Paul
PS - there are farts-a-plenty.