Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Mary Kay Bergman, George Clooney, Dave Foley, Brent Spiner and Minnie Driver
Oh My God, They Made a Movie... You Bastards!!!
It's hard for a television show to make a good movie. First of all most TV shows aren't the right kind of genre to make a movie. It is hard to make a two hour sitcom, and most dramas just wouldn't work in the movie format. In fact the only two types of shows that can really fit and that is action/adenture and animated. Even the action/adventure type don't work very well sometimes (take Wild Wild West for example) and there aren't a lot of animated series around (besides kiddie series)... in fact I can pretty much only name two, The Simpsons and South Park. I would prefer that they make the former, but for now I will have to settle for the latter as Kenny, Kyle, Stan and Cartman make their big screen debut in a movie with so much swearing that even hard core rappers might blush (OK, probably not, but there is a lot of swearing). And although on the surface it would seem that the only reason the shows creators (Trey Parker and Matt Stone) made a movie was to remove all the beeps from the TV show... but South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut actually has a message in all of its hilarity.
Cartman, Kyle, Stan and Kenny at the Terrance and Phillip Movie
This movie starts with the four main characters Kenny McCormick, Kyle Broflovski (both voiced by Matt Stone, one of the creators of South Park, also in BASEketball), Stan Marsh and Eric Cartman (both voiced by Trey Parker, the other creator of South Park and also in BASEketball) trying to get into the recently released movie of their Canadian heroes, Terrance and Phillip. However since the movie has so much dirty language in it they can't get in without an adult, so they pay off a homeless drunk to buy tickets for them. After the movie they come out spewing obscenities like a sailer with Torrets syndrome, and after bragging to all the other kids every child in South Park has seen the movie and is saying all the "bad" words of their role models from north of the border. After learning where her child learned all the swear words Kyle's mom Sheila Broslofski (Mary Kay Bergman, who has had minor voice roles in many animated movies including Mulan, Hercules, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Beauty and the Beast) calls for a ban of the movie and then begins the political group Mothers against Canada, or MAC, which goes off to New York and Washington to drum up hatred for our nothern neighbors. Eventually her influence causes us to capture Terrance and Phillip and schedule them for execution and also to declare war on Canada. Eagerly waiting for the war is the lord of darkness himself, Satan who knows that as soon as the Canadians blood is spilled on American soil he can send his demons onto the Earth and take it over. Also waiting in Hell is Satan's new squeeze Sadam Hussein who has recently died and became the dark ones lover. The kids get sick of the escalation of the war and form La Resistance, a counter-revelutionary group that wants to free Terrance and Phillip and end the war. Can the kids stop the war and Satan's invasion?
Mr. Mackie helps the kids with a song
As you have probably heard on the news, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut is filled with what appears to be obscenity after obscenity with no social value. In fact for awhile it seems like Trey Parker and Matt Stone just wanted use the S word and the F word as many times as possible to get a laugh. But towards the end it was obvious that there really was a message in all of the cursing. While the swearing of Terrance and Phillip (and of the South Park movie itself) it is up to parents to take responsibility of raising their children instead of blaming every little bump in the road on somebody else, as Sheila Broslofski does when she says to "Blame Canada!" Don't get me wrong, this is not the smart comedy of the year... in fact it isn't a smart comedy, but it does have a message. Another thing that made South Park very funny is that they made it into a musical, kind of a demented Disney film. With songs like "Blame Canada!," "What Would Brian Boitano Do?," "Kyle's Mom is a B**ch," and "Uncle F**ka" (among others) this is definitly not a Disney medle, but it adds an interesting comedic element to an already funny movie. The only warning I would make is if you don't like the TV show then you probably will dislike (or even hate) the movie... but if you are amused by Kenny, Kyle, Stan and Cartman on the small screen you will love them on the big screen.
