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#27. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/SouthParkbiggerlongeruncut.jpg
Dir: Trey Parker
Genre: Animated, Musical, Comedy
Year: 1999

SephG Superlative: The greatest animated movie ever made, the greatest musical ever made

I am going to get shit on this selection the most for anything in the top 50. So be it. You probably either love South Park or you hate it. But, in my mind, the early years of the series represent the best modern satire has to offer--and it all peaked in the 1999 feature film release.

South Park BLU was not supposed to be as brilliant as it wound up being. Matt & Trey had other ideas for the film, but the MPAA essentially told them that if they would get an NC-17 rating if they did it. So, instead, they purposefully made it more offensive and used it as a vehicle to lampoon the MPAA and the outrage culture of yore--and the MPAA ironically was fine with this. The meta-narrative in South Park BLU is something that only South Park was able to pull off--creating a movie-within-a-movie that both predicted and satirized the reception that their own movie would have. It's hard to articulate how ingenious this is--if you get offended by the film, then you are part of the joke and thereby make the movie more relevant and true. It's something I don't think I have ever seen before.

I also need to talk about the musical part of this film. If I called this the best musical ever made 10 years ago, I would probably get laughed out of the topic. But I think now people are starting to realize how special Matt & (mostly) Trey are in this realm after they created the single-most successful musical comedy in the history of Broadway. South Park BLU was just a precursor to this, churning out some of the most uproariously funny, poignant, and catchy songs I have ever heard.
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