Metacritic Film

South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut

Starring Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Mary Kay Bergman, and Isaac Hayes

MPAA RATING: R for pervasive vulgar language and crude sexual humor, and for some violent images

Paramount Pictures
Musical
80 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters June 30, 1999

A cinematic version of the popular animated television series.

WRITTEN BY
Trey Parker (also television series South Park)
Matt Stone (also television series South Park)
Pam Brady

DIRECTED BY
Trey Parker

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

73 / 100

Critic Reviews

91 Entertainment Weekly
Turns out to be the funniest, most risk-taking, most incisive movie of the summer.
91 Portland Oregonian Barry Johnson
Parker jams South Park with so much comic "stuff" that the effect is dizzying, at least for those who haven't left the auditorium in a huff before the end.
90 TNT RoughCut
It's super!
90 Slate
This isn't just the most riotously inventive movie of the year, it's the raunch anthem of the age.
88 San Francisco Examiner
It's a gas, dude!
80 The Onion (A.V. Club)
When it's on its game, and it frequently is, South Park's portrayal of its foul-mouthed, pre-teen, construction-paper-like protagonists' navigation of the absurd adult world around them cuts as deeply as any other current comedy.
80 Newsweek
Every bit as tasteless, irreverent, silly and smart as the Comedy Central cartoon that catapulted creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone into the Hollywood catbird seat.
80 Washington Post
Sharp, wildly funny social satire behind the profanity and potty jokes.
80 Los Angeles Times John Anderson
So gleefully vulgar, so eagerly offensive, it's tough not to get down on all fours and beg for more.
80 Film.com
Parker and Stone have created a movie that will doubtlessly infuriate and offend -- and amuse to no end.
80 Variety
Bigger, Longer & Uncut will make it harder still to dismiss, or kill, this cultural mini-phenom — not least because the feature is a more clever diversion than anyone had any right to expect.
80 Time
Here's another warning: you may laugh yourself sick--as sick as this ruthlessly funny movie is.
80 Village Voice Gary Dauphin
The ultimate truth, though, is that certain, probably arrested, personalities (like mine) just find this kind of shit pretty funny and any attempt to talk your way around that is, as Cartman would say, blowing bubbles out your ass.
80 Film.com
The kind of college movie people will be quoting for years.
80 The New York Times
Very funny, extremely obscene movie spinoff from the popular animated Comedy Central series.
80 Washington Post
Far filthier and a good bit funnier than Trey Parker and Matt Stone's sophomoric cable TV show ever dared to be.
75 ReelViews
An agreeable, albeit uneven, experience. Parker should take note, however, that, in some things, size doesn't matter and bigger doesn't mean better.
75 San Francisco Chronicle
Nonstop crudeness, vulgarity and unpleasantness. It's without any redeeming social value whatsoever. And it's funny from beginning to end.
75 USA Today
This has to be the raunchiest full-length animated feature since Fritz the Cat, which got an X rating in 1971.
75 The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Undoubtedly the rudest and possibly the most inspired comedy of the summer.
75 Chicago Tribune Marc Caro
The kind of movie that can get you simultaneously laughing and shaking your head at its audacity.
70 Mr. Showbiz
In terms of raw wit and fearless satire, the South Park kids put Mike Myers and Adam Sandler to shame.
70 Salon.com
Beneath the veneer of fake dicks and fart jokes, it's really a righteous paean to saying whatever the hell you want.
70 Dallas Observer
Bigger, Longer & Uncut delivers: It's never less than funny, and at its best, it's truly hysterical.
70 Film.com Lucy Mohl
Surely, there will be audiences that see South Park as one of the signs of the coming apocalypse, which may be exactly why another audience finds it so ruthlessly, irresistably funny.
67 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Ok, I admit at first I was just laughing at the sheer gutsiness of South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. But after 10 minutes, I was laughing at the script.
63 Chicago Sun-Times
I laughed. I did not always feel proud of myself while I was laughing, however.
60 TV Guide
Brilliant, in its own twisted way.
60 Chicago Reader
Inspired, self-referential animated musical.
50 Christian Science Monitor
Labors mightily to be as offensive and obnoxious as possible. It's inventive in an idiotic sort of way, though, and pauses occasionally to make serious points about movie violence and censorship.
50 Austin Chronicle
Gross-out funny, over-the-top offensive, and just as amusing -- or idiotic -- as you find that Comedy Central sitcom.

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