well, i've been a south park fan since the first pilot was available on the internet (ps. it was frosty vs jesus first, santa vs jesus came later) and i saw the movie last night and was not impressed. SP has always had a good balance of offensive humour and satirical humour, a good balance between the beeped out swear words and the parallels to the real world, the screwed up society in which we live. stone and parker always managed to make jokes relating to the real world and didn't solely rely on toilet humour for laughs. maybe it was because they were alway just on tv, and couldn't make use of the wonderful words that the cinema's allow. this movie was hilarious, but every time i laughed, it was because someone swore. the political satire and the pokes at society were well deserved, and done well, but they just weren't funny. a few things also really yanked my chain the wrong way. satan was always complaining that he'd never gotten to see what the real earth looked like, yet he came up to box with jesus and rip off the citizens of southpark (and he did appear in a field at first, so he does know what grass and flowers and other things look like). i was angered that brian boytano (sp?) never gave any guidance to the children as he has in the past. there were no jokes whatsoever about kenny's family being poor. AND WHERE THE HELL WAS CHEF'S SONG?!? there were some neat bits thrown in every so often, like Damian making a cameo in the movie theatre, the mecha streissand poster in the background outside the theatre, and a few others. all in all though the movie relied solely on swearing and various other 'toilet' humour for laughs, and it's not like it didn't have me laughing my ass off, it's just that nothing else was funny.
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well, i've been a south park fan since the first pilot was available on the internet (ps. it was frosty vs jesus first, santa vs jesus came later) and i saw the movie last night and was not impressed. SP has always had a good balance of offensive humour and satirical humour, a good balance between the beeped out swear words and the parallels to the real world, the screwed up society in which we live. stone and parker always managed to make jokes relating to the real world and didn't solely rely on toilet humour for laughs. maybe it was because they were alway just on tv, and couldn't make use of the wonderful words that the cinema's allow. this movie was hilarious, but every time i laughed, it was because someone swore. the political satire and the pokes at society were well deserved, and done well, but they just weren't funny. a few things also really yanked my chain the wrong way. satan was always complaining that he'd never gotten to see what the real earth looked like, yet he came up to box with jesus and rip off the citizens of southpark (and he did appear in a field at first, so he does know what grass and flowers and other things look like). i was angered that brian boytano (sp?) never gave any guidance to the children as he has in the past. there were no jokes whatsoever about kenny's family being poor. AND WHERE THE HELL WAS CHEF'S SONG?!? there were some neat bits thrown in every so often, like Damian making a cameo in the movie theatre, the mecha streissand poster in the background outside the theatre, and a few others. all in all though the movie relied solely on swearing and various other 'toilet' humour for laughs, and it's not like it didn't have me laughing my ass off, it's just that nothing else was funny.