South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)

D. Trey Parker



This R-rated, adults-oriented animated film, based upon the animated TV series South Park, has been judged one of the most obscenity-filled, vulgar and profane animations ever made - clocking in at almost 400 profane words, with even more examples of offensive gestures, use of racial epithets and ethnic slurs, blasphemous references to God, scatological humor, and acts of violence. Even its subtitle was a reference to a large uncircumcised phallus, and the film's song "Uncle F--ka" contained almost three dozen uses of the F-word. [Note: The song title was changed from "Mother F--ka" to escape an NC-17 rating by the ratings board.]

The film's story opened with the viewing of a film within a film by third-grade boys - an R-rated movie featuring Canadians Terrance & Phillip - as a result, they were 'corrupted' and their parents led censorship efforts that ultimately pressured the United States to wage war against Canada. It was an incongruous combination of an animation starring four pint-sized 8 year-olds (Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny), a musical (with twelve songs including the Oscar-nominated "Blame Canada"), a political satire (Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was depicted as the homosexual lover of Satan), a parody of Disney films (i.e., Beauty and the Beast) and Broadway, and a diatribe against misguided censorship (i.e., the motion picture ratings system) and American parenting. Angels were portrayed as nude females, and one child was incinerated when lighting his flatulence.