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| Directed by | Trey Parker |
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| Edited by | John Venzon |
| Music by | Marc Shaiman |
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Running time | 81 minutes[2] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $21 million[3][a] |
| Box office | $83.1 million[3] |
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is a 1999 Americanadult animatedmusicalcomedy film based on theanimated sitcomSouth Park. The film was directed by series creatorTrey Parker, who co-wrote with series co-creatorMatt Stone andPam Brady. It stars Parker, Stone,Mary Kay Bergman, andIsaac Hayes, all of whom reprise their roles from the series, withGeorge Clooney,Eric Idle, andMike Judge in supporting roles. The plot followsStan Marsh,Kyle Broflovski,Eric Cartman, andKenny McCormick as they sneak into anR-rated film starring the Canadian comedy duoTerrance and Phillip, after which they beginswearing. When the consequentmoral panic culminates in the United States declaring war on Canada, Stan, Kyle and Cartman take it upon themselves to save Terrance and Phillip from execution, while Kenny tries to prevent aprophecy involvingSatan andSaddam Hussein's intent to conquer the world.
Primarily centered on themes of censorship and scapegoating, the film also parodies and satirizes the animated films of theDisney Renaissance, musicals such asLes Misérables, andcontroversies surrounding the series itself. The film also heavily satirizes theMotion Picture Association of America; during production, Parker and Stone disputed with the MPAA, which returned the film multiple times with an NC-17 rating due to its frequent use of profanity. The film's songs were written by Parker andMarc Shaiman, the latter of whom composed thescore.
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut premiered atGrauman's Chinese Theatre on June 23, 1999, and was released theatrically in the United States and Canada the following week byParamount Pictures, withWarner Bros. handling international distribution. The film received positive reviews from critics, who praised its story, soundtrack, humor and themes. Produced on a $21 million budget, it grossed $83.1 million worldwide, making it thehighest-grossing R-rated animated film until 2016, when it was beaten bySausage Party. At the72nd Academy Awards, the song "Blame Canada" was nominated forBest Original Song, but lost toPhil Collins' "You'll Be in My Heart" fromTarzan. It has since been considered one of the greatest animated films of all time.[5][6][7]
One morning in South Park,Colorado,Stan Marsh,Kyle Broflovski and his adopted brotherIke,Eric Cartman, andKenny McCormick visit the movie theater to seeTerrance and Phillip'sR-rated film,Asses of Fire. After being denied tickets, the boys pay a homeless man to accompany them. After watching the film, the boys begin swearing constantly. Their friends are impressed and also see the film, except forWendy Testaburger, who becomes acquainted with transfer student Gregory, much to Stan's jealousy.
The next day, the boys start swearing at school and are sent toMr. Mackey's office. When the children's parents find out, they are forbidden from seeing the film again, but do so multiple times. As per a bet with Cartman, Kenny sets his fart on fire (imitating a scene from the film), accidentally immolates himself and is rushed to the hospital, where he dies from a botched heart transplant. Kenny is denied entry to Heaven and descends into Hell, wherein he encountersSatan and his abusive partnerSaddam Hussein. Meanwhile, Kyle's mother,Sheila, forms the Mothers Against Canada (M.A.C.) movement with other parents. Terrance and Phillip are arrested as war criminals; when the United States refuses to release them, Canada bombs theBaldwin family in retaliation. The US declares war on Canada and arranges to have Terrance and Phillip executed during aUnited Service Organizations (USO) show. After insulting Sheila repeatedly, Cartman is implanted with aV-chip, which administers an electric shock whenever he swears.
Satan prophesies that the war is a sign of the apocalypse and upon Terrance and Phillip's deaths, he will invade and conquer the Earth. After failing to persuade Satan to abandon Saddam, Kenny's ghost visits Cartman to warn him. Unable to reason with their mothers, Stan, Kyle, and Cartman form a resistance movement with their classmates to rescue Terrance and Phillip. At Gregory's behest, they recruit the French-accented,misotheistic Cristophe, nicknamed "the Mole". Kyle later hides Ike in their family's attic as Canadians are sent tointernment camps. After the boys infiltrate the show, Stan and Kyle attempt to stall the execution, while Cartman attempts to deactivate the alarm as the Mole prepares to secure Terrance and Phillip. However, Kenny's ghost reappears before Cartman, who runs away in fear, forgetting to shut down the alarm. The Mole is discovered and fatally mauled by guard dogs.
The remaining boys try to warn their mothers about Satan's prophecy but are ignored as the execution commences. This execution is interrupted when the Canadian Army launches a surprise attack, resulting in a massive battle between the two armies. Cartman deactivates the electrical switch, allowing Terrance and Phillip to escape; the shock from the switch causes his V-chip to malfunction. Stan chases after them but is knocked out in an explosion. Horrified at what they incited, all the M.A.C. members except for Sheila decide to abandon their cause.
Stan reawakens before a sentientclitoris, who tells him to be self-confident to gain Wendy's affection. Stan leads the others to Terrance and Phillip, whom theUnited States Army have cornered. The children form a human shield as Kyle tries to reason with Sheila, faulting her for scapegoating others for his mistakes. While the soldiers begin to back down, Sheila refuses and shoots Terrance and Phillip dead, fulfilling Satan's prophecy. Saddam usurps Satan and demands that everyone bow to him. When Saddam insults Cartman, the latter's retort releases bolts of electricity from his hands. Subsequently, Cartman engages in profanity-laden tirades to attack Saddam, who continues to verbally abuse Satan, eventually causing him to snap and throw Saddam back into Hell, where he is impaled on astalagmite.
Grateful for Kenny's support, Satan grants him one wish. Kenny wishes for everything to return to a pre-war state and parts with his friends before disappearing. South Park is restored as the casualties, including Terrance and Phillip, are undone. As the Americans and Canadians make peace, Sheila reconciles with Kyle, as does Wendy with Stan. For his sacrifice, Kenny is allowed to enter Heaven.
Development for the film began during production ofSouth Park'sfirst season in January 1998.[9] Co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone signed a deal withComedy Central that April which contracted the duo to produce episodes until 1999, as well as an unspecified amount to produce a film based on the series.[10] Part of Parker and Stone's conditions were that the film must at least receive anR rating, keeping it in line with the series' humor and its predecessor short films both titledThe Spirit of Christmas. Parker stated that their desire was to approach the film from a more creative perspective and do more than a simplefeature length episode.[9] Despite alleged pressure from studio executives to tone down the film, Parker and Stone's conditions were ultimately honored by Paramount Pictures.
"They really wanted to be able to go beyond theSouth Park television show", Comedy Central spokesman Tony Fox reported toTV Guide. "They really fought hard for and won the right to make an R-rated movie".[11] Paramount executives went as far as preparing graphs displaying how much more revenue a PG-13-ratedSouth Park film would potentially generate.[12] TheWilliam Morris Agency, which represented Parker and Stone, pushed for the film's production to begin as soon as possible, while public interest was still high, instead of several years into its run, as was the case withBeavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996).[13]
As in the television series, most of the characters are voiced by Parker, Stone, andMary Kay Bergman.Isaac Hayes reprised his role asChef, and audio samples of staff children Jesse Howell, Anthony Cross-Thomas and Franchesca Clifford were used for the voice ofIke Broflovski.Guest voices for the film includeGeorge Clooney as Dr. Gouache,Brent Spiner asConan O'Brien,Minnie Driver asBrooke Shields,Eric Idle as Dr. Vosnocker, andDave Foley asbrothersAlec,Billy,Daniel andStephen Baldwin.[12]
Michael McDonald, who performs the closing track "Eyes of a Child", performs Satan's high notes in "Up There", andHoward McGillin provides Gregory's singing voice in "La Résistance (Medley)". FormerThe Police drummerStewart Copeland voices aUnited States Army soldier.Mike Judge, creator ofBeavis and Butt-Head andKing of the Hill, provides Kenny's voice in his sole speaking appearance at the end of the film.[12] Although initially denied by Paramount,Metallica vocalistJames Hetfield performs the track "Hell Isn't Good", which was confirmed by Parker in the 2009 Blu-ray commentary.[14]
Thefirst season episode "Death" heavily influenced the film's screenplay; both plots center on the parents of South Park protestingTerrance and Phillip due to the perceived negative influence it has over their children. Parker stated, "After about the first year ofSouth Park, Paramount already wanted to make aSouth Park movie, and we sort of thought this episode would make the best model just because we liked the sort of pointing at ourselves kind of thing."[15] During this time, the team was also busy with thesecond andthird seasons of the series, the former of which Parker and Stone later described as "disastrous". As such, perceiving that the initial fervor would wane, they decided to write the film as a personal, fully committed musical.[16]
The film was animated usingAlias WavefrontPowerAnimator, running onSGIO2 andOctane workstations. Characters and individual scene elements were designed withtexture mapping and shading that, when rendered, resemble thecutout animation of the short films and the series' first episode, "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe".[17] The animation crew used a multiprocessorSGI Origin 2000 and 31 multiprocessorOrigin 200 servers for both rendering and asset management. Backgrounds, characters and other items could be saved separately or as fully composited scenes, with convenient access at later points.[17] "By creating flat characters and backgrounds in a 3D environment, we are able to add textures and lighting effects that give the film a cut-out construction paper stop-motion style which would have taken many more months if done traditionally," stated line producerGina Shay.[17] By thefifth season, the series transitioned toMaya.[18] The studio now runs a 120-processor render farm that can produce 30 or more shots per hour.[19] The animation ofSouth Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut is therefore seen as an example of howSouth Park's visual quality has improved in recent seasons.[20] In theaudio commentary on the 2009Blu-ray release, Stone and Parker criticize how "bad and time consuming" the animation was during that time.[14]IGN described the animation as "fall[ing] somewhere within the middle ground—not quite cardboard cutouts, but not quite fully computerized either."[21] Nate Boss, in a review for High-Def Digest, commented, "There is no comparing the two, as the movie has a classic (forSouth Park, at least) animated feel, so full of the cut-outs we have grown to love, while the newer seasons sport a more computer processed feel."[22] The film, compared to the series at the time of its production, was animated inwidescreen (1.66:1).[16] "Although the 'primitive' animation ofSouth Park is supposedly a joke, it's really a secret weapon," wroteStephanie Zacharek ofSalon. "The simplicity of Parker and Stone's technique is what makes it so effective".[23]
The crew alternated between the film and the series, pushing both to scheduling extremes; changes to the film were made as late as two weeks before its release as the crew continually disputed with Paramount:[24] "They wanted aDisney kind of trailer. We said no. They put together a totally un-South Park MTV video for the song 'What WouldBrian Boitano Do?'. We had to go make our own version."[24] Paramount's first trailer for the film advertised it, according to Parker, as "the laughiest movie of the summer", and promoted it in a way thatSouth Park "was completely against". Parker and Stone told the studio of their dissatisfaction with the trailer, and upon the creation of a second trailer with minimal changes, the two broke thevideocassette in half before returning it to the studio. "It was war," said Stone in 2000. "They were saying, 'Are you telling us how to do our job?' And I was going, 'Yes, because you're fucking stupid and you don't know what you're doing.'"[25] In another instance, Paramount used the film's songs to create amusic video forMTV. In accordance with broadcast standards, various parts were edited out; Parker described the final result as a "horrible little medley with all humor absent". The studio sent the original tape to Parker and Stone over the weekend with plans to send it to MTV on Monday to prepare it for a Wednesday airdate. Instead, Stone took the tape home, and Paramount threatened to sue Parker and Stone in response.[25] Parker also noted that the title is aninnuendo, and that "they (theMPAA) just didn't get it". The film was originally titledSouth Park: All Hell Breaks Loose, but was changed when the MPAA objected to the use of the wordhell. Parker later revealed that the final title, which he personally considered worse, doubles as a reference to an uncircumcised penis.[26]
The film's songs were written by Parker and the film's score composerMarc Shaiman. The fourteen songs in the film recall variousBroadway musicals.[27] The soundtrack alsoparodies many familiar Disney conventions, with several songs spoofing such films asBeauty and the Beast andThe Little Mermaid.[28] "Mountain Town" has been compared toOklahoma! andBeauty and the Beast's "Belle", while "La Résistance (Medley)" was favorably compared toLes Misérables.[29] "I'm Super" recalls "Be Our Guest" andSouth Pacific's "Honey Bun", and "Kyle's Mom's a Bitch" echoesChitty Chitty Bang Bang; "Up There", "I Can Change" and the "Mountain Town (Reprise)" recallThe Little Mermaid's "Part of Your World", "Poor Unfortunate Souls" and "Part of Your World (Finale)"; and "Uncle Fucka" also drew comparisons toOklahoma!, particularly in its coda.[6] "Hell Isn't Good", which accompanies Kenny's descent to Hell, was sung by an uncreditedJames Hetfield.[14]
The soundtrack received critical acclaim, withEntertainment Weekly describing it as "a cast album that gleefully sends up all the Hollywood musical conventions we're being deprived of".[28] The soundtrack was released June 15, 1999, byAtlantic Records. "Blame Canada" was frequently highlighted as one of the best songs in the album and was nominated for theAcademy Award for Best Original Song. "I was like, 'We're going to get nominated for an Academy Award for this.' I really was," Parker said. "I even told him [Shaiman]."[30] Shaiman spoke of the song, "We're making fun of people who pick ridiculous targets to blame anything about what's going on in their lives, so Canada was just the perfect, ridiculous, innocuous choice for a target."[30] In 2011,Time called the soundtrack the "finest, sassiest full-movie musical score since the disbanding of theFreed unit atMGM."[6]
Paramount Pictures andWarner Bros. Pictures (whose respective parent companiesViacom andTime Warner Entertainment viaHBO formerly jointly owned Comedy Central) collaborated in distributing the film; Paramount released the film in the United States, while Warner Bros. distributed the film internationally.[1]
The film was ratedR for "pervasive vulgar language and crude sexual humor, and for some violent images" by theMotion Picture Association of America.[13] The board's objections to the film were described in highly specific terms in private memos by Paramount executives. The MPAA initially insisted on the more prohibitive NC-17 rating.[31] Of the six times the film was screened to the MPAA, it was designated NC-17 after five screenings,[24] the last of which was two weeks before its scheduled release. A marketing agent from Paramount called Parker and Stone and explained that the studio "needed" an R. In response, Stone contacted executive producerScott Rudin, who in turn called a Paramount executive and, in Stone's words, "freaked out on them". The film's rating was lowered to R the following day, with the original film intact.[25] "The ratings board only cared about the dirty words; they're so confused and arbitrary," said Parker toThe New York Times. "They didn't blink twice because of violence."[31] During production of the film's trailer, the MPAA objected to certain words but found no issue with a scene in which soldiers are shot dead. "They had a problem with words, not bullets," he said.[31] The MPAA gave Paramount specific notes for the film; in contrast, Parker and Stone's NC-17-ratedOrgazmo, released in 1998 byRogue Pictures, was not given any specifications on how to be acceptable for an R rating.[25] One of these notes stated that if the script exceeded 400 swear words, the movie would be given an NC-17 rating. Parker and Stone responded to this by using 399. The duo attributed the R rating to the fact that Paramount and Warner Bros. are both members of the MPAA; the former denied these claims.[32] In the United Kingdom, the film was given a15 certificate by theBritish Board of Film Classification for "frequent coarse language and crude sexual references" with no edits made.[2] InAustralia, it was rated MA15+ (Mature accompanied for those under 15) by theAustralian Classification Board. In Canada, the film received18A and14A certificates in most provinces, and a 13+ certificate inQuebec.
As predicted through the characters' actions in the film, there were numerous news reports of underage patrons unsuccessfully attempting to sneak into the film.[32] There were also reports of adolescents seeing the film under the pretense of purchasing tickets to Warner Bros.'Wild Wild West, which was released on the same date.[33] This was a result of an industry-wide crackdown on such attempts, as proposed byPresidentBill Clinton in response to themoral panic generated by theColumbine High School massacre two months before the film's release.[34] The film was cited, along withAmerican Pie, as an explicit film released in the summer of 1999 tempting underage youth to sneak into theaters.[35] There were similar reports of the film attracting an underage crowd when the film was released in the United Kingdom in August 1999.[36]
In the aftermath of Columbine in relation to the film's release, Parker was questioned whether he felt "youth culture [was] under fire", to which he commented: "[I]t's amazingly strange, because that climate is what the movie is all about, and we wrote it more than a year ago. So when [Columbine] happened, we were like, 'Wow.' What we wrote about in this movie came true in terms of people's attitudes. The movie is also about war, and then that happened, too."[37] Hayes responded to conservatives urging prudishness as a cure for society's ills: "If we give in to that and allow [entertainment] to become ascapegoat, you might wind up living in who-knows-what kind of state... If you believe in [your artistic vision] and you've got a moral conviction, take it to 'em!"[38] The rating of the film later brought comparisons toStanley Kubrick'sEyes Wide Shut, which was released in theaters in a digitally altered and censored version two weeks afterSouth Park;[39] the original cut was rated NC-17 before Warner Bros. altered it to ensure an R rating. In response to these debates and controversy, Stone called the MPAA a "bumbling, irresponsible organization".[40]
The film was theatrically re-released for two nights byFathom Events on June 23 and June 26, 2024, to coincide with the film's 25th anniversary.[41]
Paramount's licensing arm significantly expanded retail distribution beyond specialty stores (Hot Topic,Spencer's) to major retailers (Target,J.C. Penney), which involved carefully stripping T-shirts of objectionable material.[42] Licensing industry observers credited Comedy Central with carving out a profitable niche in an industry dominated by partnerships linking fast-food restaurants andmajor film studios, which was particularly difficult forSouth Park, as fast-food chains did not want to associate with the series' content.[43] Eventually, J.C. Penney ended itsSouth Park tie-ins in April 1999 as a result of customer complaints.[44] In July 1999, Parker and Stone appeared onLate Night with Conan O'Brien to promote the film's release. During the interview, Parker and Stone showed a clip of the film in which O'Brien (Brent Spiner) hands over Terrance and Phillip to the US government before committing suicide. Upon seeing the clip, O'Brien responded that his interns thought that it was "really funny", but were annoyed that theLate Night set was portrayed as on the top floor of theGE Building, when it was really on the sixth floor.[45] The film also suffered negative publicity before release. It was initially reported that on the day of the Columbine massacre, a friend of theperpetrators, Chris Morris, was seen wearing a black T-shirt depicting characters fromSouth Park.[46] Both Parker and Stone are from Colorado, and Stone attended the nearby Heritage High School. Following the massacre, Stone took a three-day sabbatical: "Nothing seemed funny after that", he said.[31]South Park was also, at the time, generally waning in popularity: ratings dropped nearly 40 percent with the premiere of thethird season and, according toEntertainment Weekly, "it [wasn't] the pop-culture behemoth it was last year [1998]".[24] In response to the decline, Parker commented, "Suddenly we suck and we're not cool anymore. The funny thing is, last year we were saying the same things and we were hip, fresh, and cute. Now they're telling us we're pushing 30, we're failures, and we're sellouts."[24]
The film was released onDVD in the US on November 23, 1999, with aVHS release initially exclusively as a rental.[47] A traditional retail VHS release was issued on May 16, 2000.[48] The DVD contained three theatrical trailers for special features, which many criticized as being typical of "bare-bones" DVD releases.[49] ALaserDisc release was issued on January 18, 2000; this release is markedly rare, as it was issued late in the format's lifespan.[50] The film was re-released onBlu-ray on June 30, 2009, ten years after its theatrical release. In addition to the trailers, this release featured an audio commentary from Parker and Stone and a special "What Would Brian Boitano Do?" music video. This release was sourced from the original film negative, which resulted in audio sync issues.[51]IGN's Scott Lowe explained, "Although clearly aged,South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut looks great and is free of the washed out, compressed imperfections of previous standard definition releases of the film."[22] However, Michael Zupan of DVDTalk notes that an automatic digital scratch removal process may have inadvertently removed some intentional lines from the picture, notably during Cartman's first scene with the V-chip.[52] In the commentary, Parker and Stone, as well as other crew members, reveal that they had no recollection of making the film due to heavy scheduling.[16][52] The film was released on4K Ultra HD Blu-ray on June 25, 2024.[53][54]
On a $21 million budget,South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut opened at number four behindWild Wild West,Big Daddy, andTarzan, with a gross of $14,783,983 over the four-dayIndependence Day weekend from 2,128 theaters for an average of $6,947 per theater ($11,090,000 and an average of $5,211 over three days) and a total of $19,637,409 since its Wednesday launch.[55][56] It dropped to eighth place in its second weekend, grossing $7.1 million.[57][58] It went on to gross $52,037,603 in the United States and Canada, with the 3-day opening making up 22% of the final domestic gross. It made an additional $31.1 million internationally for a total of $83,137,603 worldwide.[3]
It was the highest-grossing R-rated animated film sinceAkira (1988), until it was surpassed bySausage Party (2016), which grossed more than $140 million worldwide;[3] that record was, in turn, surpassed byDemon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train in 2020, which grossed more than $500 million worldwide.[59][60]
OnRotten Tomatoes,South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut has an 81% approval rating based on reviews from 99 critics, and an average rating of 7.1/10. The website's consensus states: "Its jokes are profoundly bold and rude but incredibly funny at the same time."[61] OnMetacritic it has a score of 73 out of 100 based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[62] Audiences surveyed byCinemaScore gave the film a grade "B−" on scale of A to F.[63]
Rita Kempley ofThe Washington Post described it as "outrageously profane" and "wildly funny", writing that "While censorship is the filmmakers' main target […] [Parker and Stone's] favorite monster is the Motion Picture Association of America, self-appointed guardians of the nation's chastity. It's all in good dirty fun and in service of their pro-tolerance theme."[64] Stephen Holden ofThe New York Times regarded the film's "self-justifying moral" as "about mass entertainment, censorship and freedom of speech." He also praised Cartman's subjection to the V-chip as "the movie's sharpest satirical twist, reminiscent ofA Clockwork Orange".[65]Entertainment Weekly graded the film an A− and commended the film's message in a post-Columbine society, as well as the musical numbers, which "brilliantly parody / honor the conventions of Broadway show tunes and, especially, the Disney-formula ditties that began with Alan Menken and Howard Ashman."[66] Writing forThe Washington Post, Michael O'Sullivan neutrally regarded the film's offensive nature, commenting "Yes, the lampooning is more broad than incisive, but under the bludgeoning of this blunt instrument very few sacred cows are left standing."[67] Reviewing the film forTime,Richard Corliss wrote that "you may laugh yourself sick – as sick as this ruthlessly funny movie is."[68] Corliss later named the film his fifth favorite animated film of all time.[69][70]
The film also had detractors, without noting the conservative family groups offended by the film's humor.[71][72] Jack Mathews of theDaily News suggested the film's running time made Parker and Stone "run out of ideas".[73]Roger Ebert stated that the "vicious social satire" of the film both "offended" and "amazed" him. Ebert rated the film2+1⁄2 of 4 stars, calling it "the year's most slashing political commentary", but also wrote that "it is too long and runs out of steam, but it serves as a signpost for our troubled times. Just for the information it contains about the way we live now, thoughtful and concerned people should see it. After all, everyone else will."[74]
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was nominated for anAcademy Award forBest Original Song for "Blame Canada". As a joke, Parker and Stone attended the72nd Academy Awards ceremony indrag. It was later revealed on6 Days to Air that they were high onLSD during the pre-show and the ceremony.[75] When "Blame Canada" was scheduled to be performed,ABC requested that lyrics be written to comply with theirS&P department.[76] "It would be ironic to have to change the words in a movie about censorship," remarked Shaiman.[76] The department was particularly critical of the song's use of the wordfuck and allusions to theKu Klux Klan. When Parker and Shaiman declined these requests,Robin Williams, a friend of Shaiman's, performed the song with black tape over his mouth and turned his back when profanities were sung.[77] The award ultimately went toPhil Collins' "You'll Be in My Heart", as featured inTarzan. In response, Parker and Stone ridiculed him in two consecutive episodes of the series'fourth season: "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000" and "Timmy 2000".[78] In the DVD commentary for the latter episode, Parker states that they were "fully expecting to lose, just not to Phil Collins".[79]
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| Award / Film Festival | Date of ceremony | Category | Recipients | Result |
| Academy Awards | March 26, 2000 | Best Original Song | for "Blame Canada" | Nominated |
| Annie Awards | November 6, 1999 | Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Theatrical Feature | South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut | |
| Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production | Mary Kay Bergman | |||
| Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Feature Production |
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| American Film Foundation | March 2, 2000 | E Pluribus Unum Award for Feature Film | South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut | |
| Chicago Film Critics Association | March 13, 2000 | Best Original Score |
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| Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards | January 10, 2000 | Best Animated Film | South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut | Nominated |
| Los Angeles Film Critics Association | January 19, 2000 | Best Music |
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| MTV Movie Awards | June 3, 2000 | Best Musical Sequence | Terrance and Phillip – "Uncle Fucka" | |
| Motion Picture Sound Editors | March 25, 2000 | Best Sound Editing - Music - Animation |
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| Best Sound Editing - Animated Feature | South Park: Bigger. Longer & Uncut | Nominated | ||
| New York Film Critics Circle Awards | January 9, 2000 | Best Animated Film | South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut | Won |
| OFTA Film Awards | 2000 | Best Music, Original Score | Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman | |
| Best Animated Picture | Trey Parker | Nominated | ||
| Best Music, Adapted Song | "Kyle's Mom's a Bitch" | |||
| Online Film Critics Society Awards | January 2, 2000 | Best Original Score | Marc Shaiman | Won |
| Golden Satellite Awards | January 16, 2000 | Best Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media | South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut | Nominated |
| Best Original Song | "Mountain Town" | |||
| Village Voice Film Poll | 2000 | Best Film | South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut | 10th place |
The film is recognized byAmerican Film Institute in these lists:
Following its release, MPAA presidentJack Valenti stated that he regretted not giving the film an NC-17 rating.[39] In response to the film's controversy, the MPAA expanded its system with detailed descriptions adjacent to its ratings beginning in 2000.[91] The film's use of profanity earned it a 2001Guinness World Record for "Most Swearing in an Animated Movie" (399 profanities, including 139 uses offuck; 128 offensive gestures; and 221 acts of violence).[92][93]
In the song "Uncle Fucka",fuck is said 31 times. Throughout 2000,Blink-182 often ended songs on theirThe Mark, Tom and Travis Show Tour with lines from "Uncle Fucka". The lines can be heard on the band'slive album,The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back!).[94]
While the actual Saddam Hussein was ontrial forgenocide charges in 2006, Stone joked that theU.S. military was repeatedly showing Saddam the film as a form of torture.[95] Parker and Stone were given a signed photo of Saddam by American soldiers.[96]
In 2007, during development of the "Imaginationland" trilogy, Parker and Stone described the possibility of producing it as a film but ultimately abandoned these plans amid a demanding production schedule.[97] Parker and Stone said in a 2008 interview that a theatrically released sequel would most likely be what concludes the series.[98]
In 2011, when the officialSouth Park websiteFAQ was asked whether a sequel would be made, it was replied to with, "the firstSouth Park movie was so potent, we're all still recovering from the blow. Unfortunately, at the current moment, there are no plans for a secondSouth Park movie. But you never know what the future may bring, crazier things have happened..."[99]
In 2013, Warner Bros. relinquished its rights to co-finance any furtherSouth Park films during their negotiations to co-financeChristopher Nolan'sInterstellar. Previous efforts to produce anotherSouth Park film were complicated by both Paramount and Warner Bros. retaining certain rights to theIP. The deal mentioned that Paramount had the next five years to develop another film or else Warner Bros. regains the rights. It never came to be so Warner Bros. continues to share them with Paramount.[100]
In August 2021, a series of 14television specials was announced forParamount+ as part of a multi-year deal with Parker and Stone, the first two of which premiered in November and December 2021.[101][102][103][104] The projects were originally announced as films, which Parker and Stone later denied.[105]
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