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How South Park Beat an NC-17

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the beefcake! dept.

IMDB (I love this site) has an article on how the South Park movie escaped an NC-17 rating. Comments on editing, and featuring the most amusing quote " As with the comparatively harmless Big Daddy (1999), the comic premise of South Park is based on the hilarity ensuing from the corruption of children." This and Austin Powers were the 2 comedies I was looking forward to this summer.

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  1. SP Review (WARNING! POSSIBLE SPOILERS!) by Narbo · · Score: 4

    I saw a screening of the movie last night.

    For those of you who are curious it varies from
    completely hilarious to completely awful. And yes
    the NC-17 rating is completely deserved, if not for the continous stream of bad language (more then a Dennis Leary/Andrew Dice Clay combo special) then for many, many downright nasty allusions/jokes (most of the sexual).

    Now onto the movie itself.
    Its actually a musical.
    The plot more or less runs like: Kids go see new Terrance and Philip movie (its a foreign film from Canada doncha know?) which contains profuse amouts of bad language (one whole musical number is compesed almost entirely of swearing :O) from which they develop potty mouth. The rest of the movie involves the parents of sp lead by Kyles mom
    attempting to cure/rescue thier children from this
    awful affliction.

    The movie is at its best during the musical numbers which are grand in the finest broadway/classical tradition. (Cartmans solo song about Kyles mother is particularly memorable)

    The jokes are extremely crude and crass, (and I mean REALLY crude and crass) anyone who has not
    seen an episode of southpark in thier lives might be offended to the point where they might walk out if they have strong religious/moral views. Parents be warned, be sure to explain to your kids the difference between satire (the movie) and blind repetition lest you risk your kids coming down with the same problems the sp kids have. (trust me the tunes are pretty catchy, and not a one is something you want to be singing out loud in public :)) As I said the movie swings alot between really great and really awful, most of the awful bits are stupid tasteless dialog (dont get me wrong I like stupid tasteless dialog, but it gets a bit tried after the first 15 minutes) parts.

    Anyhow, overall impression was that it was a decently entertaining movie. Bad dialog, great musical numbers, average (crude) jokes and one truly great scene involving Bill Gates. :)

    I can imagine there wont be much of a middle ground for reviews on this movie, you will either like it, or absolutely detest it.
    Having said that I suggest you go see the movie and find out which category you are in!