The Duke Watches "Orgazmo"
Published June 16, 2004
Orgazmo has the good sense to know when it's about to outstay its welcome, and gets the fuck off the screen before a mean son of a bitch like The Duke might start getting restless. Unlike the theatrical feature, South Park - With Added Fuck Words, Orgazmo doesn't really ever start to drag. It's so infectiously daft that you're more than happy to let it go about its foul-mouthed, blasphemous, sex-talk-filled business until it blows its filmic load over the screen. It does suffer from a third act that sees fit to yack about "crime" and so on, but even this is wonderfully handled, like one might handle a silicone breast filled with punch-lines.
It doesn't say anything especially taboo-molesting. I mean come on, folks have been making jokes about Christians for, who knows, at least 4'000 years I'd say. And the whole thing about porn being a really bizarre caper is going to be old news to anyone who saw The Erotic Adventures of Mozart, what had slow-motion cum-shots whilst some of Wolfgang's biggest hits played on the soundtrack.
But it does have brilliant jokes, brilliant characters, and a lot of the "heart", by which I mean it might fuck your laugh-glands from behind, but it'll still give you a kiss after.
Thanks, South Park Lads.
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the back-alleys and rusted dumpsters of popular culture have rarely had a more charismatic and empathetic explicator - thanks Duke, you make it all seem almost noble.
Oh, by the way, I'm not sure understanding is what Michael Jackson needs - he may have received altogether too much understanding over the last 20 years or so. A person with less cash, power, and understanding over that time might have had to reconcile his internal world with the external one filled with actual real living people
Thanks fellas.
RJ, i just hope Roger Ebert sees fit to use that expression in his future reviewing malarky.
Jim, spot-on about the Kung Fu, although i haven't yet saw BASEketball, so i'll have to reserve judgement, by which i mean, wait till i do, in fact, see the film what goes by the name of BASEketball.
Eric, thanks, man! Nice words are always appreciated. As for Michael, i realise that right there is a pretty contentious topic, but i guess i just mean that for a show such as south park, it would have been easy to do what everyone else was doing, ie, go for cheap laughs and nothing else. It certainly had plenty of cheap laughs, but also looked on the matter sympathetically. Whilst it didn't excuse jackson, it saw that there was probably a mental illness at work there that caused him to act in what might seem like a malicious nature, but was probably genuinely innocent. He needs help, is what it seemed to say, not to be vilified.
Thanks as ever, folks.
I understand - he needs help AND needs to be vilified for not getting it. Just because someone is nuts doesn't mean they aren't dangerous.
I've seen this movie discussed before but never braved it as a rental.
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What you missed was that "Orgazmo" is primarily a kung-fu movie in structure and plot points. The stunt cocks and double-vaginal - double-anal action are just the set dressing.
And in addition to a kick ass soundtrack, it has one of the best superhero rallying cries after Ben ("It's Clobberin' Time!") Grimm :
"Go In The Front, Come Out The Back and Fuck Their Shit Up!"
Plus it Jesus Approved (tm), He gave it the thumbs up, right there near the end.
I think "Orgazmo" is a better movie than their tribute to Zucker-Abrams-Zucker "Baseketball".