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South Park: Bigger, longer & uncut

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Movie propaganda

After Stan, Kyle, Kenny and cartman sneak into an R-rated movie, the rest of their third grade class is quick to follow.

The kids' parents are outraged by the effect the movie has on their innocent young minds and demand to be heard from their small Colorado mountain town.

Anger leads to censorship, censorship to war and before they know it the boys are risking their lives in the name of freedom. When the smoke finally clears, the dust finally settles, and the dark prince has finally taken over the Earth, everyone has learned two very important lesson: communication between parents and children is vital and the world is a better place without Saddam Hussein.

Persons of interest

Trey Parker .... Stan Marsh, Eric Cartman, Satan, Mr Herbert Garrison, Phillip Niles Argyle, Randy Marsh, Tom (news reporter), Midget in a bikini, Ticket taker, Canadian Ambassador, Bombardiers, Mr Mackey, Army general, Ned Gerblanski
Matt Stone .... Kyle Broflovski, Kenny McCormick, Saddam Hussein, Terrance Henry Stoot, Jimbo Kearn, Gerald Broflovski, Bill Gates
Mary Kay Bergman .... Liane Cartman, Sheila Broflovski, Sharon Marsh, Wendy Testeberger, Clitoris
Isaac Hayes .... Jerome 'Chef' McElroy
Jesse Howell .... Ike Broflovski
Anthony Cross-Thomas .... Ike Broflovski
Franchesca Clifford .... Ike Broflovski
Bruce Howell .... Man in theatre
Deb Adair .... Woman in theatre
Jennifer Howell .... Bebe Stevens
George Clooney .... Dr Gouache, Dr Doctor
Brent Spiner .... Conan O'Brien
Minnie Driver .... Brooke Shields
Matt Stone .... Screenwriter
Pam Brady .... Screenwriter
Trey Parker .... Screenwriter
Trey Parker .... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

FYI: "Bigger, longer & uncut" is a reference to phallic width, length and foreskin status (uncut being in the natural state, cut having been mutilated, usually while as an infant)
Studios and distrubutors:

South Park Studios

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

Ahhh, there's nothing like a good book-burning to get the juices pumping.

Seriously, though, like its TV progenitor, South Park: Bigger, longer & uncut puts injustice fairly and squarely in its sights and lets rip. In this case the injustice is censorship, a concept more completely at odds with freedom of speech than any other, especially in a country as hypocritical as the USA. The nation was founded on the principles of equal justice and freedom for all people and has gone on to become one of the most rigidly intolerant democracies in the First World. As one of the last countries to outlaw slavery (and that only after a civil war) and recognise its citizens as human beings (they were almost as slow as Australia on that count) and possibly the only one to ban the teaching of science because of religious intolerance, the USA continually creates limits to its inherent freedoms.

Leading the charge to control what people think and do is the ultra-conservative religious right. They picket Disney products because the company provides equal employment benefits to all its staff (regardless of gender or official marital status). They fight for the right to promulgate their own religion above all others (and non-religious modes of thought, too). The campaign for the imposition of their own moral codes onto all other citizens, despite a documented inability to maintain those codes themselves.

It's scary to think that this bloc is a political force in the most economically and culturally powerful country in the world.

Fortunately, there's South Park. If you hate the TV show you'll hate the movie so don't even bother reading any further, you've had the best part of the review already. If you love the show, you'll like the film, if not more.

There are heaps of songs which fill in the gaps between exposition, some with greater success than others. Trey and Matt are more than familiar with the clichés of popular culture, especially those that belong to the First World war baby boomers. Snappy tunes, easy themes and happy endings. By repeating that structure they purposely rip the shit out of it. (This is a good thing.) The Simpsons does the same thing in the same way but they don't have a movie so they're not as important.

Like all good cartoons (as opposed to animation) the characters are two-dimensional (pun intended) and go through no character growth whatsoever. The fun is in the adventure, not the application to their lives. The application is for you to make in your life.

Big things to watch out for: Saddam and Satan in top/bottom hell, Kenny in Hell (although for some reason he doesn't get very hot despite wearing a great big parka), Kenny unmasked (gasp!, yes, it's true!), Canada-bashing and the biggest cartoon war since Mulan. South Park: Bigger, longer & uncut is a great big playground for the boys (Matt and Trey, not Cartman et al.) - you're invited to come over and play any time you want.