Wolff rating: EXCELLENT
Plot summary: Four young boys see an R-rated movie, and as their vocabulary changes, their parents take up a crusade against the people who made the movie---Canadians.
Biased, pithy comments: It's not often a movie offends so continuously. I laughed hard pretty much every minute of seeing the film, although sometimes more a sort of embarassed-I-can't-believe-they-put-that-on-film laugh more than a hearty guffaw (although there were plenty of good guffaws). With some slightly improved animation from the foul-mouthed series, great voice work, and only one extended fart joke, the movie skewers some of society's hypocrites, most especially the MPAA. The music (did I mention it was a musical?) is both well-performed, well-written (though purposefully derivative of other musicals), and has intricate amusing lyrics. However, there is a whole lot of cursing, shouting, insulting of gays, blacks, the military, and parents, and even a fair amount of cartoonish violence (as explicit as one can get with paper cutouts), so this isn't for the faint-of-heart. However, for those that can handle the insults, it's great fun.
Other Notes: Responses to this film are funny---critical acclaim from the movie literate with Christian groups up in arms about, well, nearly everything including portraying Satan as basically a nice guy who is misunderstood, angels as nude women (but, of course, without the original sin of lust, who cares what people are wearing?), and naturally the language. I think it's great that Parker and Stone made a movie that is beholden to nobody, and resolutely R-rated. Your mileage, of course, may vary.
How many times I have seen it: x2
Starring: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Mary Kay Bergman, Issac Hayes.
Directed by: Trey Parker