Movie · 1999 · Animation, Comedy · 1h 21m · R · English
Curator score: 7.3/10 (442.1K ratings)
Uh-oh.
Overview
In this feature film based on the hit animated series, the third graders of South Park sneak into an R-rated film by ultra-vulgar Canadian television personalities Terrance and Phillip, and emerge with expanded vocabularies that leave their parents and teachers scandalized. When outraged Americans try to censor the film, the controversy spirals into a call to wage war on Canada and Terrance and Phillip end up on death row, with the kids their only hope of rescue.
Ratings
Curator score: 7.3/10
IMDb: 7.7/10
Letterboxd: 3.85/5
Rotten Tomatoes: 81%
Metacritic: 73
TMDB: 7.3/10
Director
Trey Parker
Production
Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Comedy Central, Scott Rudin Productions, Braniff Productions
Cast
Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Mary Kay Bergman, Isaac Hayes, Jesse Brant Howell, Anthony Cross-Thomas, Franchesca Clifford, Bruce Howell, Deb Adair, Jennifer Howell, George Clooney, Brent Spiner, Minnie Driver, Dave Foley, Eric Idle, Nick Rhodes, Toddy Walters, Stewart Copeland, Stanley G. Sawicki, Mike Judge
Where to watch
fuboTV, Paramount Plus Premium, Paramount Plus Essential
Curator Review
Verdict
A savage, fast-moving musical satire that turns censorship panic, juvenile shock humor, and political hypocrisy into a genuinely sharp comedy. It’s crude by design, but the songs are memorable, the jokes are relentless, and the film is smarter about media outrage than its reputation suggests.
Best for
fans of boundary-pushing satire
viewers who like animated musicals
people interested in censorship and free-speech comedy
audiences comfortable with extreme vulgarity
fans of late-90s pop-culture parody
Skip if
you dislike explicit sexual and scatological humor
you want gentle or family-friendly animation
you prefer subtle satire over broad provocation
you’re easily put off by offensive language or taboo jokes
Overview
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is one of the rare comedy movies that feels like it’s trying to get itself banned and smarter at the same time. It weaponizes shock value, but the target is clear: censorship, moral panic, and the absurd way outrage can escalate into spectacle. The result is a movie that’s filthy, but also unusually disciplined in how it builds its jokes and musical numbers.
Worth noting
The songs are the real surprise. They’re catchy, aggressively funny, and often do the heavy lifting of the satire, especially when the film shifts from playground vulgarity to public hysteria. Even when the humor is deliberately juvenile, the craft is sharp enough that the movie keeps landing as both a gag machine and a pointed cultural parody.
Bottom line
It won’t work for anyone allergic to offensiveness, but for viewers who can meet it on its own terms, it’s a very confident piece of animated comedy. It’s less about being outrageous for its own sake than about proving that outrage can be turned into a weapon against hypocrisy.
Top Letterboxd reviews
DirkH (4★) · 3497 likes
Any film that has Saddam Hussein and Satan as gay lovers should win tons of awards.
I blame Canada they didn't win any.
Vidyuth Mahesh (4★) · 3040 likes
imagine being such a chad, such an alpha, to make and write a movie who's title is a dick joke, which has a song called "uncle fucker", which has fucking satan and saddan hussein in a sexual relationship, and somehow, AT THE SAME *FUCKING* TIME, make it a brilliant commentary on creative freedom, censorship, unnecessary political riots and wars, and the sheltering of children, with genuinely incredible songs.
👽 Zara 👽 (4★) · 1713 likes
i'm glad satan realised he deserved better, good for satan, he's so much more then what saddam made him think he was and i'm glad he knows it now.
SilentDawn (4★) · 1160 likes
75/100
"Haven't you heard of the Emancipation Proclamation?"
"I don't listen to hip-hop."
Never been much of a South Park guy (I prefer the quaint and slightly absurd pleasures of The Simpsons and the razor sharp early seasons of Family Guy) but Matt Stone and Trey Parker's film adaptation of the beloved TV show is a musical joy, embracing the beauty in vulgarity and the controversy it inevitably carries. So much of the runtime is uniquely focused on basking in… more
Felipe F. (4★) · 867 likes
"Remember what the MPAA says; Horrific, Deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any naughty words!"