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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is a 1999 animated satirical motion picture based on the animated series South Park.

Plot

The plot deals with the four South Park eight-year-old stars who sneak into a profanity-filled movie entitled Asses of Fire
, featuring fictional Canadians Terrance and Phillip. After watching the film, the boys start to swear even more than usual, and the parent-teacher outrage that ensues triggers an international crisis that eventually escalates into a war between the United States and Canada. A sub-plot of the film involves a scheming Saddam Hussein, who tries to take over the world with the assistance of his gay lover, Satan. When Terrance and Phillip are killed, Hussein and Satan will emerge from Hell to rule the world. In addition, each of the boys has his own sub-plot, which include:

Stan: Trying to win back his girlfriend, Wendy Testaburger, from a boy by finding the elusive Clitoris.
Kyle: Trying to stand up to his mom, leader of the "Mothers Against Canada" movement.
Cartman: Has a V-chip installed in his brain, which shocks him when he curses.
Kenny: Dies early in the movie and goes to Hell, where he tries to help Satan stand up to his emotionally abusive boyfriend, Saddam Hussein.

A few new minor characters are introduced, including Gregory of Yardale and The Mole. The Mole has been featured a few times in cameo-like appearances on the series, appearing on a TV talk show during one episode.

The film is a musical that pokes fun at the animated Disney films such as Beauty and the Beast
, and features twelve songs. The song "Blame Canada" was nominated for an Academy Award, allegedly because it is the least profane of the songs (while it is true that "Up There" actually has no profanity at all, it would probably have created much more controversy religion-wise, given its portrayal of Satan as sympathetic and justifying evil in the lyrics). It was the second song with profanity ever nominated for an Oscar (Little Shop of Horrors
"Mean Green Mother From Outer Space" being the first), causing some concern about its performance in the Oscar ceremony. Nevertheless, Robin Williams
performed the song with a full chorus line.

Originally, the song was supposed to be performed at the Oscars by voice actress Mary Kay Bergman
, who provided most of the female voices in the movie. However, she committed suicide shortly after the release of the movie.
Controversy
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is one of the most profanity-filled movies ever produced. The film features a song entitled "Uncle Fucka" in the Terrance and Philip movie that uses the word fuck 27 times. The song title originally used mother rather than uncle, but it was changed to qualify for an R rating (instead of NC-17); also, the authors say uncle sounds funnier than mother.

The movie's excessive use of profanity also gained it a spot in the Guinness Book of Records for "Most Swearing in an Animated Film" (399 profane words, 128 offensive gestures and 221 acts of violence). However it is only 65th on the list of films ordered by uses of the word "fuck".

The movie angered moral conservatives not only for its heavy use of profanity, but also for its depiction of conservatives starting a war against Canada purely because of Terrance and Phillip's use of profanity. The underlying theme of the film, however, is that it is the responsibility of parents and guardians to protect their children from what they deem inappropriate, and that censorship of anything (particularly in movies and TV) is simply a parental tool for escaping blame. (This is summed up neatly in the climactic line of "Blame Canada", in which a group of parents sing: "We must blame them / and cause a fuss / before somebody thinks of blaming us.")

It is often claimed that the movie was originally titled South Park: All Hell Breaks Loose, and that the MPAA forced a change of the title; the creators of the characters, Trey Parker
and Matt Stone
, counterproposed South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut as a title, which is a double entendre. The story comes directly from Parker and Stone; Richard Taylor, a spokesman for the MPAA, denies that any film was ever submitted with that title and states that the MPAA did not reject the use of the word "hell" in the title. See, for instance, the film adaptation of the books From Hell and Hellboy
, or the Hellraiser
films.
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