South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

Entertaining raunchfest; not for kids.

[An] inspired, self-referential animated musical.

Genuinely outrageous and sometimes hilarious -- but size does eventually matter, and all-rounder Trey Parker just can't keep it up for the full 81 minutes.

Rude, but inspired.

Far tauter, more a laser-guided contraption than the often scattershot episodes of the series.

A happy surprise!

As expected, the movie is crude in both look and content, but it does make some salient (and perennially relevant) points about the dangers of censorship and the responsibilities that come with freedom of choice.

The South Park film also broadened my understanding of what musicals can be. It’s not a genre that can tell only one type of story. It can tell any type of story and, when it’s as smart and beautiful as South Park, it can be magic.

Parker and Stone have made a career out of being decent animators, decent writers, and equal-opportunity offenders.

... its satire is timeless and finds itself as relevant as ever in a time where we’re dealing with book-bannings, hoisting of religion into public schools, and movements toward internment.