Part of Midnight Movies
Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman sneak into an R-rated movie and it warps their fragile little minds. Soon their indignant parents declare war on Canada and our young heroes are America’s last hope to stop Armageddon.
With the more-relevant-than-ever series having just wrapped its 28th (!!!) season, we cast our eyes back to 1999 and the titular small town’s acerbic debut on the big screen, back to a time when all society’s ills could be traced back to a common root — and at the end of the day, we could all just blame Canada!
“In its cheerfully smutty way it wants to clear the air of pompous, hypocritical rhetoric about protecting children from basic if unpleasant realities. Beneath the hilarity, the movie is a scathing social parable in which desperate, paranoid grown-ups who long for an impossibly sanitized environment go collectively crazy to the point that they're willing to bring on World War III. And what are they so afraid of? Just some dumb off-color humor about bodily functions.” —Stephen Holden, New York Times (Jun 30, 1999)
“This isn’t just the most riotously inventive movie of the year, it’s the raunch anthem of the age…. SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT is my THE PHANTOM MENACE — the film that returns me to a righteous (in this case, righteously filthy) adolescence.” —David Edelstein, Slate Magazine