South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (1999)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.8/10   

Director:

Trey Parker

Escritores:

Trey Parker (television series South Park) &
Matt Stone (television series South Park) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

30 junio 1999 (USA)

Género:

Animación | Comedia | Musical

Frase comercial:

Warning: This movie will warp your fragile little minds.

Plot:

When the four boys see an R-rated movie featuring Canadians Terrance & Phillip, they are pronounced "corrupted", and their parents pressure the United States to wage war against Canada.

Plot Keywords:

Satan | Hell | Saddam Hussein | Hypocrisy | Unintelligible

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 6 wins & 8 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A truly subversive movie

Reparto

Trey Parker	...	Stan Marsh / Eric Cartman / Satan / Mr. Herbert Garrison / Phillip Niles Argyle / Randy Marsh / Tom - News Reporter / Midget In A Bikini / Ticket Taker / Canadian Ambassador / Bombardiers / Mr. Mackey / Army General / Ned Gerblanski / Additional Voices (voice)
Matt Stone	...	Kyle Broflovski / Kenny McCormick / Saddam Hussein / Terrance Henry Stoot / Jimbo Kearn / Gerald Broflovski / Bill Gates / Additional Voices (voice)
Mary Kay Bergman	...	Liane Cartman / Sheila Broflovski / Sharon Marsh / Wendy Testeberger / Clitoris / Additional Voices (voice)
Isaac Hayes	...	Chef (voice)
Jesse Howell	...	Ike Broflovski (voice)
Anthony Cross-Thomas	...	Ike Broflovski (voice)
Franchesca Clifford	...	Ike Broflovski (voice) (as Francesca Clifford)
Bruce Howell	...	Man In Theatre (voice)
Deb Adair	...	Woman In Theatre (voice)
Jennifer Howell	...	Bebe Stevens (voice)
George Clooney	...	Dr. Gouache (voice)
Brent Spiner	...	Conan O'Brien (voice)
Minnie Driver	...	Brooke Shields (voice)
Dave Foley	...	The Baldwin Brothers (voice)
Eric Idle	...	Dr. Vosknocker (voice)

También conocida como:

South Park (International: English title) (short title)
South Park Saves the World (USA) (working title)
South Park: All Hell Breaks Loose (USA) (working title)
South Park: BLU (USA) (promotional abbreviation)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (USA) (closing credits title)
The South Park Movie (USA) (working title)
South park: Más grande, más largo y sin cortes (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for pervasive vulgar language and crude sexual humor, and for some violent images.

Duración:

81 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Sweden:7 | Hungary:18 | France:-12 | Iceland:12 | Iran:(Banned) | USA:TV-MA (tv rating) | USA:R (No. 36729) | Brazil:14 | Singapore:(Banned) | South Africa:13L | Italy:VM14 (sky rating) | Austria:16 | Sweden:11 (DVD rating) | Sweden:15 (video rating) | Finland:K-14 (original rating) | Poland:18 | Australia:MA | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14A | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Chile:18 | Denmark:7 | Finland:K-12 | Germany:16 | Hong Kong:IIB | Iraq:(Banned) | Ireland:18 | Israel:16 | Italy:T | Japan:R-15 | Malaysia:(Banned) | Netherlands:16 (video rating) | New Zealand:R16 | Norway:11 (original rating) | Portugal:M/12 | South Korea:18 | Spain:13 | Taiwan:R-12 | UK:15 | Argentina:16

Compañía:

Comedy Central Films

Trivialidades:

In the German dub of the film, Mrs. Cartman's German partner in the dubious video that the boys watch on the Internet is actually British.

Errores:

Errores Reales: Whene Brian Boitano is shown skating, the judges give him a score based on a scale of 10. Figure skating uses a scale of 6.

Citas:

[first lines]
Stan: [singing] There's a bunch of birds in the sky. And some deers just went running by.

Conexiones de Película:

Spoofs "ER" (1994)

Banda de Sonido:

Kyle's Mom's a Bitch

A truly subversive movie

I was not a fan of South Park before I saw BL&U, nor was I a fan of movie musicals. Well, I'm still not a fan of musicals, but I'm a fan of *this* musical, and am grateful to Parker and Stone for demonstrating that it's still possible to make a great movie on one's own terms.

For this movie, unlike the usual feature-length adaptation of a pop culture phenomenon, not only lives up to its pedigree, it wildly exceeds it. Yes, the movie does recycle many of the show's jokes, but it does so in new yet relevant contexts that keep the material funny if you are familiar with the South Park world. If you aren't familiar with that world (as I wasn't before seeing the movie), the gags are simultaneously accessible yet often subtle.

Subtle? Yes, many of the gags are. Indeed, one of the pleasures of owning a copy of the movie is having the ability to review the movie, in slo-mo if necessary, and discover throwaway sight gags that one has missed in the delirium of watching this anarchic satire the first time through. (And if you have the DVD, you can add subtitles to catch many of the songs' often elusive lyrics.)

Then there's the music. What is it about movie musicals that attracts great satiric minds? Not since Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" has a work of art so subversively exploited the conventions of the movie musical as South Park. From the droll opening strains of Mountain Town, to the Disneyesque "Up There," to the Les Miserables spoof, "La Resistance," South Park simultaneously sends up the genre while paying homage to it, and still finds room to use the songs to score delicious points against its myriad targets.

One last thing: this movie is not cynical. Beneath the scatological humor, the cartoon violence, the scathing portrayals of Wynona Ryder et al, and the backdrop of adult xenophobia, sexual repression and political opportunism, is a sensibility that exalts childhood as an island of honesty and idealism, if also of id-like impulse and frequent selfishness. In this they share space on the shelf of great satires with "Candide," "Gulliver's Travels," "Tom Sawyer" and especially "Huckleberry Finn"--classics that, like BL&U, also exposed the hypocrisies of the adult world "through the eyes of a child."

Elvis Costello once sang, "I want to bite the hand that feeds me/I want to bite that hand so badly/I want to make them wish they'd never met me." That BLU was shut out at the Academy Awards (having only garnered a nomination for the relatively tame "Blame Canada", which lost, appropriately enough, to the execrable Phil Collins) only vindicates the film's take-no-prisoners send-up of nearly everything that annoys in this suffociatingly focus-group-tested, PC-policed, cynically sentimental, violence-ridden, love-starved modern world. See this movie, and see the persistence of hope and possibility sparkling like a diamond amid the pop culture detritus of a quiet little red-necked, white-trash, strait-laced, mesuggeneh, US mountain town.