SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT (1999) (***1/2)

3 11 2009
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The death of so many TV to film adaptations is that what works as a half hour on TV feels padded and drawn out as a feature film. Trey Parker and Matt Stone took the essence of their button pushing television series and expanded on it. Filled with hilarious songs, the film allowed Parker and Stone to be even more outrageous than they could be on TV. And they get to stick it to their critics real good.

Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny are dying to see the big screen debut of their favorite Canadian comedy duo, Terrance and Phillip. Titled “Asses of Fire,” the foul-mouthed feature influences the children of South Park to use the worst language thinkable. I can’t even write the title of the big song from the film. Irate, Kyle’s mother Shelia Broflovski (Mary Kay Bergman) wages war against Canada. And when I mean war, I literally mean war.
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