Dust Brothers Have 'Orgazmic' Experience

07/01/1998 4:50 PM, Yahoo! Music
Lyndsey Parker

(7/1/98) - Last night at the Laemmle Sunset 5 theater in Los Angeles, music industry types were treated to a special advance screening of Orgazmo, the much-anticipated motion picture starring South Park creators Trey Parker (who also directed and wrote the script) and Matt Stone. The blasphemous action comedy--a sort of Boogie Nights meets The Naked Gun meets The Tick--chronicles a naïve young Mormon's unlikely transformation from door-to-door Bible-thumper to reluctant porno stud to crime-fighting caped crusader, and also features real-life adult film star Ron Jeremy.

The screening was hosted by the Dust Brothers' Nickelbag Records label--home to such bands as Sukia, Creeper Lagoon and 10 Cent--which will have the honor of releasing the Orgazmo soundtrack. The soundtrack, executive produced by the Brothers and L.A. nightclub proprietor/ Nickelbag co-owner Mitchell Frank, will feature several original songs by the Brothers (who are more known as a production team for the likes of Beck, the Beastie Boys and Hanson than they are as a band), as well as Ween, Primus, Meat Beat Manifesto, Smash Mouth, April March and the Crystal Method. (Nickelbag publicist Trevor Seamon says other acts, which cannot be named at this time, may be added before the soundtrack's September 1 release date.) The soundtrack's centerpiece is sure to be the anthemic theme song "Now You're A Man"--a direct rip-off of Survivor's "Eye Of The Tiger"--performed by DVDA, the band led by Parker and Stone. ("DVDA" stands for "double vaginal, double anal," the XXX stunt for which porn actresses are most highly paid.)

Not surprisingly, Orgazmo is every bit as sacrilegious, vulgar and likely to stir up controversy as is South Park. Though it seemed to be a big hit with last night's L.A. audience, it's difficult to imagine how the future cult classic's many hairy-buttocks close-ups, dildo-wielding fight scenes and subversive digs at Christianity will play in more conservative towns like, say, Salt Lake City. (Then again, the film was reportedly well-received by the Utah crowd at last year's Sundance Festival.) Although Orgazmo contains little nudity (save for the aforementioned hirsute backside shots) or actual live-action sex and only the most cartoonish type of kung fu violence, Seamon says it's probably still too offensive to earn an R rating, and will most likely be commercially released with no rating (NR).

October Films will release Orgazmo to 900 theaters (the maximum number allowed for a non-rated film) in late September, with Nickelbag's soundtrack hitting stores a couple weeks earlier. Considering the movie's risqué subject matter, it's ironic that Nickelbag is a subsidiary of the Disney-distributed Mammoth Records.

In related news, Baseketball--the David Zucker (Airplane!, Naked Gun) comedy starring Parker and Stone--hits theaters July 31, and American Recordings is currently working on an official South Park soundtrack.

-- Lyndsey Parker, Los Angeles