Ebert & Morris (1999): WWW, BVSC, My Son The Fanatic, South Park & The King of Masks

[@sigbauer9782]

I saw SP:BL&U when it opened. I went to an early matinee showing and there was a sign on the ticket office that said "No refunds will be issued". About 5-10 minutes into the showing, some people walked out, but I was laughing so hard, I almost died. I took a friend to a later showing that same day and still couldn't stop laughing.

[@ToxicSpork]

Wow, I had no idea Wesley Morris was on this show when he was younger. Nice to see they got somebody that's young enough to be Ebert's son to debate with him. South Park was definitely not made for the baby boomer generation

[@hothotmeat]

ebert actually said the show was good in his review of baseketball

[@billssportsandwrestlingchan]

I liked their discussion over South Park, but I wish Gene was there for that one because the South Park TV series, and the VHS's they released were his video pick of the week once.

[@Mistercline1]

I saw South Park in theaters when I was 14. My brothers were over 18 so that’s how I got in. Usually I would have no problem getting into an R rated movie by buying a ticket for a PG film and sneaking into the R film. But if I tried it that day I would have been out of luck because they had hired security to specifically sit at the South Park theater and check each ticket and post by the door ensuring no one sneaks in.

[@Surreal469]

Wesley had good points about South Park but JUST falls short of being able to defend it to Roger. Roger's focus was the "meanness" Wesley needed to lean into that point. Because South Park IS mean. That's 1/2 the point

[@Shorty_Lickens]

yeah I like it when the jokes come fast and hard, and I like their social commentary when it really matters, when it hits home. But the movie was just bad. Mostly gross, they didnt make any good points about society. The series is usually better, at least the good episodes.

[@snnnaaaaaakeeeee4470]

​​@Shorty_Lickens The movie made incredibly good points about society that still resonate to this very day. The songs were great. Sure the movie had a lot of gross bits but it does not detract from the quality. I still prefer the show, but seems like you have a personal bias against it. Saying it made no good points about society is disingenuous.

[@Shorty_Lickens]

@@snnnaaaaaakeeeee4470 Oh wow, what an incredibly generic and thoughtless comment.

[@snnnaaaaaakeeeee4470]

@Shorty_Lickens As if your comment was any better lol. The movie's themes of moral guardians calling for censorship instead of taking responsibility for letting their kids consume age inappropriate media are just as relevant now as it was back during its release.

[@Shorty_Lickens]

@@snnnaaaaaakeeeee4470 OK ima need you to fuck off now. thanks and if you believe in god, god bless you.

[@malichitte]

Great timing! I just listened to the BVSC album.

[@sha11235]

Wesley would also substitute for Roger when Roger got ill. The only critic that did that from the post-Siskel era.

[@AnimationNation2004]

Lisa Schwartzbaum also did. She appeared in two 1999 episodes like Morris and one episode years later in 2007.

[@hamupinhere]

Episodes like this remind me that I am constantly at odds with Roger's grandstanding and moral posturing over absurd comedies, knowing that he is partially--if not, mostly--responsible for 1979's "Beyond The Valley of the Ultra-Vixens". If he reminded himself of this fact as much as I unfortunately have to do, I think he would've had such a better outlook and attitude on certain films.

[@oldfashionedguy1368]

Thanks for the upload, they are right about Wild Wild West it was pretty bad and it nearly put a stop into Will Smith's career, but what makes it interestingly bad is the fact that it cost $180 million to make which is very expensive for a comedy back in 1999.

[@Jbaxter85]

Well said, Will stated he regrets making Wild Wild West because the way it turn out & puts him in a bad light of his career, he also regrets turning down The Matrix.

[@kali3665]

@@Jbaxter85 Will Smith could have done The Matrix, but he was unsure about the effects and later said that he would have screwed it up. And he did Wild Wild West instead. Insert "He chose ... poorly" meme here.

[@Shorty_Lickens]

yeah he and Barry Sonnenfeld were just too successful and they were forced to keep pumping out bigger and better movies, and they had to fail eventually.

[@moviola12]

I heard Trey Parker and Matt Stone encouraged their "under 17 fans" to buy tickets to Wild Wild West, and then sneak into South Park. Who could say, but the Box Office for Wild Wild West is most likely inflated.

[@jessecoffey4737]

Woo-hoo! We've got the full episode now! The previous upload of this was missing a few seconds of footage.

[@Jbaxter85]

About time 👍😉

[@tammyjej]

You know, I think the only animated movies based on cartoons that Roger Ebert actually did like were Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, Rugrats in Paris, The Wild Thornberrys Movie, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie and The Simpsons Movie

[@marcofalzone6469]

Thanks for the timestamps

[@Jbaxter85]

You're welcome 😊

[@King_Colombia_Inc]

10:05 for my brothers. *25 YEARS ON!*

[@sha11235]

Great, if this isn't on the website yet, it is going up there!

[@jamesmitchell8922]

TV-PG for this episode compared to a TV-MA for one edition and TV-14 for another last year.

[@DJMS1986]

This isn't still on is it?

[@jamesmitchell8922]

@@DJMS1986 The show, no.

[@jalbert653]

Been waiting for WWW!!!! Thanks!

[@Jbaxter85]

You're welcome 😁

[@matthewmochan3161]

South Park may be considered crude but its certainly not mean or mean spirited. Especially compared to Family Guy for example.

[@MarkGarza94]

Can you imagine what Gene Siskel would say about Wild Wild West? If he was alive.

[@Jbaxter85]

I bet he agrees with everything they said.

[@chefcook09]

I find it very interesting that South Park aired in 1997 and just 2 years later they made their movie version. While The Simpsons it took Matt Groening 18 years later to make his own movie version.

[@WorldwideWyatt]

The Beavis and Butthead movie came out pretty soon after the premier of the TV show too.

[@hyicrotai9801]

Was hoping siskel was still working in 99 to do SOUTH PARK.

[@Dim4323]

And yeah wild wild west was based on a 60s tv series? Were their fans who wanted a film version

[@reneperez7903]

Wild Wild West 👎⭐️ out of 4 South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut 👍⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@sha11235]

Watching Kline yell at Smith there, aren't you expecting Smith to just slap him?

[@billssportsandwrestlingchan]

Keep his name out of your f****** mouth! lmao.

[@jtr990]

Thinking about Wild Wild West reminded me of the time when I was riding in a Greyhound bus from Vancouver to Hamilton and back. Boy was that movie bad. Very bad.

[@spadinnerxylaphone2622]

Do people not realize that Cartman making Jew jokes is funny because HE'S a bad person, not because anything he says about Jews is true?

[@waltmccarthy9837]

This guy interrupts Ebert too much. I guess he was probably nervous. Roger is absolutely right about “South Park” being mean-spirited. I’m not politically correct but the whole tone of the show is so cynical, elitist, crass, judgmental, homophobic, stupid (they supported the Iraq War) and provocative just for the sake of provoking people that no truly moral person could be entertained by it.

[@ledbowman]

roger thinks we should live in pleasantville!!!!

[@upandawaygames]

I recall not liking this one a lot. They talk over one another too much.

[@kali3665]

Wild Wild West. Yeah, it's so very bad. I commented on another review that it's an adaptation only in the sense that at least one of the writers HEARD of the TV show, and they actually spelled "Artemis" correctly. The movie played up the comedy, which the series never did, and they REALLY screwed up the Loveless character. Kenneth Branagh's Arliss Loveless was sorta based on the original series' Miguelito Loveless, played by the late, great Michael Dunn, who could be one of the great Bond villains who never encountered the real thing. Branagh was abysmal in the movie - his performance was terrible and the character needlessly racist. Another case of completely bastardizing a well-beloved TV series for a movie, then not even TRYING to match the quality of the original. South Park. Well, Roger, that's because South Park has always been mean-spirited, but a lot of people seem to like that. I'm not one of them - I've never been a fan, and I really don't understand the show's continuing popularity. What can you say about a movie that snuck a sex joke into its title?! Sure, that's to be expected - it's South Park - but it probably drew people away from the film if they weren't already pulled away by the fact that it's South Park.

[@batbatbatman]

Roger Ebert Should Lay Off The Fatty Foods

[@AdnanBen-Abdellah]

Mean. But. Very True.

[@newwavepop]

Roger, i do not think ANY little kids are going to be into a movie with subtitles. i am conservative but i never get offended by films, Gene and Roger both were bleeding heart liberals and would often get very pearl clutching over films. if they were alive today i think they would both find out as many others have that todays liberals would consider them dinosaurs and part of the problem, when you are on the left you can NEVER be liberal enough and your own party WILL eventually turn on you.

[@Dim4323]

Agree with Ebert on south park.

[@names_are_useless]

* Cartman making fun of Kyle for being a Jew, or his song with racial stereotypes: Kartman is the butt of the joke, not Kyle or minority. Cartman is an objectively terrible person we aren't supposed to be rooting for, but instead laugh at his misfortune. * The use of profanity was to show the pointlessness of censorship. They also went out of their way to put as many swear words, just 1 shy from an NC-17 Rating. Would 1 more swear word really mean the movie should get such a Rating? It's making a point. "You can have as much Violence as you want, so long as there's no swearing" * Satan being the "best gay character in a movie" was kind of ridiculous on Morris's part. The whole Satan-Saddam Relationship was supposed to represent abuse, as Satan was in an abusive relationship. Oh, and that Saddam was an asshole. I agree with Morris far more then I do Ebert. This movie has aged like a fine wine.

[@snnnaaaaaakeeeee4470]

I think you might be a little too easily offended then

[@Dim4323]

​@@names_are_useless And it lost to Tarzan

[@Hellraiser0601]

The chemistry wasn't there with this guy and Roger Ebert. No wonder we never got to see Mr. Thesaurus again 😂

[@Jbaxter85]

My Son The Fanatic: A painful but funny moving flim observed happiness with fine performances by Rachel Griffiths & Om Puri. 👍🌟🌟🌟🌟 The King of Masks is surprising emotional contain beauty & power 👍🌟🌟🌟🌟 South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is fearless & funny but also mean spirit for children 👎🌟🌟 Wild Wild West is a disaster from beginning to the end with lousy effects, terrible performances, bad combination to mix western with Star Warz, Smith & Kline weren't funny to save the movie. The story aspect didn't help much. 👎🌟

[@williamnoonan7380]

There's something punchable about Wesley Morris. I don't know what it is but I grew up in Boston where he began as a critic and I remember seeing his reviews and felt the same way ever since.

[@toddpinkstonisgod]

A guy from Boston wants to punch a black guy? How surprising!

[@kenyonferguson1243]

Beyond awful chemistry

[@Hellraiser0601]

The other guy tried a little bit too hard to be at the level of Ebert (with the SAT words and his pseudo intellectual approach), but he came across as annoying and repetitive. Also, it was cringe worthy when he kept interrupting Ebert.

[@furtsmagee1513]

Half of the Siskel and Ebert show was them interrupting and talking over each other. This had less than average if anything.

[@freddyfurrah3789]

I HATE WILL SMITH.