[glennherman]

One thing I like to pint out with this film is that it is targeted to younger, "hipster" types. That is the brilliance of it. I would not find many 50 year old parents getting into this film. However, the film proved to me that the younger generations are ours - conservative/libertarian thought has become the new "cool" underground. The left has now become the bloodless, entrenched "system". We are the new counterculture movement. And unlike the commie hippies, we have humor on our side.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Exactamundo!

The creators of the film are in their mid-thirties, I believe, and so are a lot of their fans. Many in this age bracket, who had an extended adolescence (Generation X ex-slackers, and former punkers close to 40 - as Trey Parker describes himself), are settling down, raising familes, and having to deal with life-and-death issues for the first time in their lives.

Given the dreary socialist institutional drivel they've been subjected to during their formative years, anything anti-liberal is new and refreshing to them. Especially, as you point out, when delivered with a sense of humor.

[Spyder]

I would not find many 50 year old parents getting into this film.

Perhaps, but I'm 48, and both my husband (56) and I loved it! Of course, we still subscribe to Mad Magazine so that might not say a lot about our level of humor maturity ;-).