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Ebert's comments on the film
It is controversial because of its very free use of vulgar and sometimes obscene language, and because it makes fun of religion. Shows have mocked Catholicism, Islam, Mormonism, Judaism, and made jokes about Jesus and Moses. Its creators decribe themselves as "equal opportunity offenders" and some shows have made fun of liberal causes, particularly environmentalism.
It is controversial because of its very free use of vulgar and sometimes obscene language, and because it makes fun of religion. Shows have mocked Catholicism, Islam, Mormonism, Judaism, and made jokes about Jesus and Moses. Its creators decribe themselves as "equal opportunity offenders" and some shows have made fun of liberal causes, particularly environmentalism.
Of the 1999 ''South Park'' movie, movie reviewer Roger Ebert said "The film is rated R instead of NC-17 only because it's a cartoon, I suspect; even so, the MPAA has a lot of 'splaining to do," meaning presumably that Ebert believes it should have been rated NC-17. "Waves of four-letter words roll out over the audience," he says.
A frequent criticism of South Park is that it indulges in shock for shock's sake. Ebert says of the film, "All it lacks is a point to its message. What is it saying? That movies have gone too far, or that protests against movies have gone too far? It is a sign of our times that I cannot tell. Perhaps it's simply anarchistic, and feels that if it throws enough shocking material at the wall, some of it will stick. A lot of the movie offended me." However, he acknowledges, "I laughed. I did not always feel proud of myself while I was laughing, however.... No target is too low, no attitude too mean or hurtful, no image too unthinkable."