I saw the movie Friday night with my husband. First of all, let me say that we loved the South Park movie…thought it was absolutely brilliant.
That said, we were horribly disappointed in this one. Sorry, guys, but with a few minor smiles, this movie simply wasn’t funny to me.
The “panthers” were funny. The towel on his head for a turban was funny. And Kim Jong Il saying “HERRO!” into the camera was funny. But the rest? Meh.
From an on-line chat with Trey Parker and Matt Stone:
I thought the movie made the difference between dicks, assholes, and pussies to be very, very clear. What’s all this talk about their only being TWO sides in the whole thing?
I saw this tonight and really enjoyed it. Granted, some of it was slow, but I rather enjoyed it and some parts were Hilarious.
Suprisingly, I actually chuckled a bit at the vomit bit even though it was disgusting as hell, and went on a bit too long. And the puppet sex wasn’t as bad as I’d heard.
I also felt it was fairly poltically evenhanded. You had both sides with their hearts in the right place, but whose actions only really served to make things worse. And of course, Micheal Bay was taking a beating.
Couple things that came to mind though.
What the hell was up with the cockroach thing at the end?
Baxtor, the limo driver, looked very much like a woman with a mostache, but never talked. I kept wondering if it was going to be a joke but apparently not.
I could have sworn I had seen some scenes online that weren’t in the movie. Particulary Kim Jong Ill saying something about not giving a shit during his song, and a fight scene at the NK palace.
I just saw it today on DVD. My God, it doesn’t need a PG-type rating, it needs a health advisory. It may not be the funniest movie ever made, but it was without a doubt, the movie that made me laugh the hardest.
They had me primed by the time they blew up the Eiffel Tower, and I was laughing by the time they had the “Lease” AIDS AIDS, AIDS AIDS AIDS, AIDS AIDS, AIDS AIDS AIDS song.
My roommate heard me laughing and had to come out and watch me for the rest of the movie. When they got to the sex scene, I just lost it. All I could do is sit there, hunched over, clutching my gut, laughing hysterically. You know those laughs that become self-perpetuating, you’re not sure what you’re laughing at anymore, but you just keep laughing, and it hurts you’re laughing so hard, and then you look back up at the screen and you start laughing even harder until you’re thinking you’ve lost your mind, injured an internal organ, and tears are streaming down your cheeks?
That was me. And that was a great movie.
I saw it recently.
I liked all the songs. (I’ve seen a couple movies since with montages and I’m just singing to myself, “you need a MON-tage.”)
I liked the pussies/dicks/assholes speech.
I liked the puppet sex.
And I LOVED the Kim puppet.
The rest of it was just action with puppets and not very funny. I saw some of the DVD commentary and something Parker and Stone said clued me in. They said, basically, “Jerry Bruckheimer doesn’t realize that he’s actually making comedies, but he is.” I think they went with the line of thinking, “it will just be funny if we do Bruckheimer stuff with puppets,” and it mostly wasn’t.
Question: in the theatrical release, did the boy puppet SHIT on the girl puppet’s face? Because that was in the uncensored one.
As for political leanings: I think the pussies/dicks/assholes speech pretty well summed that up. I think the Parker/Stone PROBABLY think it’s better to be a dick than a pussy, but a dick is still a dick.
I’m afraid so.
No, that was cut from the theatrical release. The sex scene was only about 1:20 or so in the theatres, not the six minute extravaganza that’s on the uncut DVD.
I saw this in the theatre and laughed my ass off. :eek: Luckily, I found it.
I bought the DVD the day of release and my damn ass falls off every time I watch it. 
Definitely the funniest movie of 2004, IMO.
It was? :smack:
I musta dislodged a few things from laughin’; I don’t remember it being in the theatrical release. Ah well…
Me and my friend are constantly quoting this great movie.
“You can’t blame yourself for what gorillas did.”
I think so, and I think the term is “Cleveland Steamer”
I thought she took a dump on his face!
No.
That would be disgusting. She pissed on his face. He shit on hers.
(actually, I think you’re right Lou, because now that I think about, it had to be him pissing on her face because it was a stream)
I saw it recently. Pretty sure that’s how it went down.
I saw it on Netflix, so it may not have been the theatrical release. I missunderstood the question.
It was definitly NOT in the theatrical release.
Ameri-cuh, FUCK YEAH!
I’ve had that in my head since yesterday.
I made a clip from America, Fuck Yeah that plays when I turn on my computer. It cracks me up. Fuck yeah!
I wonder if this is a generational thing - or just me getting older.
I found the whole movie… just a waste of time.
Most scenes went on too long.
The songs were about as clever as the parody songs they do on morning radio (with a couple of hours from idea to finnished product).
As political satire, hitting the left and right, it was too heavy handed.
The puppets were amazing and really well done, but not worth the buck it cost me to rent it, or the 90 minutes of my life I’ll never get back.
If someone thinks I’m shitting over your thread, I’m sorry. I opened it expecting people to feel about the same thing I did, and am surprised that so many are raving about it.
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I do feel old.