10 Movies That Were Condemned On Religious Grounds

4. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

South Park the television series made its name by being a harsh satirical take on American life and culture - nothing was considered too taboo to mock and lambast, whether it was vacuous celebrities, politicians or religious groups. Not surprisingly, when creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker were given the green light to make a feature-length South Park, freed from the constraints of television censorship, the gloves well and truly came off. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut doesn't pull its punches in its wonderfully vulgar defense of free speech, attacking everything from Disney to Saddam Hussein while taking a hefty swipe at the Motion Picture Association of America, with whom Stone and Parker battled throughout the film's production. Not surprisingly, a feature cartoon which roundly mocks the near-Puritanical zeal with which America's self-professed religious "guardians" cast judgement on anything they perceive as offensive, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut itself came under fire from the very people it satirised. The Christian Analysis of American Culture described it as "INCREDIBLY dangerous" (all caps denotes shouting, don't you know?) and provided a breakdown of the usages of expletives and calling it a "vulgar and vile movie" which mocked Jesus and accepted Satan. No doubt Stone and Parker were delighted with eliciting such a reaction, since it proved to a tee precisely the point about censorship and the knee-jerk reaction of pious religious groups they'd set out to make in the first place.