South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
dir: Trey Parker

If it weren't for the car wreck of American Pie, I would say this is a great damned year for movies.

My big fear for SP:BL&U was that it would be a mild retread of the television show and unable to sustain a two-hour movie. But it wasn't. It was great, perhaps the funniest movie I've seen all year.

I won't spoil the plot for you, and I'm sure you already know a lot about it. It's a full-blown musical with two songs that are absolutely immortal now: "Shut Your Fucking Face, Uncle Fucka" and "What Would Brian Boitano Do?", the latter containg immortal couplets like "When Brian Boitano traveled through time/to the year 3010/he killed the evil Robot King and saved humanity once again/when Brian Boitano built the pyramids/he beat up Kublai Kahn/'Cause Brian Boitano doesn't take shit from anyone!".

I've said enough. See the damned thing already.

Cartman unleashed, totally "Akira"-style, at the end is worth the admission alone.

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Michael Keegan
8.5.1999