South Park: Bigger, Longer, And Another Slap In The Face

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South Park: Bigger, Longer, and another Slap in the Face
The movie “South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut” has turned many heads and raised many eyebrows. The movie is generally a barrage of foul language and offensive material giving viewers a satirical look at society. I was never offended by the movie but I did catch myself at times thinking that maybe I shouldn’t be laughing at this. The writers of the movie use a crude cartoon to depict problems in society. Lucy Mohl from an interview on film.com states, ”There is something to upset everyone in these 88 animated minutes, including Walt Disney and Andrew Lloyd Webber, who get skewered in subtle ways, along with Saddam Hussein, Bill Clinton and Satan, who just get skewered.” The characters of the movie themselves address common problems in society, for instance: Eric Cartman is an obese, racist, self-centered child – three of the things we as a society frown upon.
The movie contains many satires on current society. The movie begins with a Walt Disney type song about their “quiet little redneck podunk white-trash mountain town” which in itself is a large satire. The major plot regards a Canadian movie the four main boys pay a homeless man to let them into. The movie, starring Terrance and Phillip and titled “Asses of Fire,” contains explicit and vulgar language, which, of course, the children repeat in school. One of the children’s mothers blames all of Americas ills and the corruption of its children on Canada and forms “Mothers Against Canada.” This is one of the major social points the movie addresses: that is the quickness of society to place the blame on something. Whether explaining a school shooting, discussing drug abuse, and anything else, it seems we look for something or someone to blame, not wanting to blame ourselves.
“South Park” goes off on many tangents to include many of the popular characters from the series and to allow m...