Ok this is basically back-to-its-roots genius. :rofl: Congrats.
I was surprised by this episode. It wasn't terrible! That is, except for the part that expressed everything isn't Kathleen Kennedy's fault. That's a bit unbelievable. As an aside, how is 48 minutes or so, with credits, a movie?
Genius! This is one of the best South Park movies I've seen :joy:
South Park will never not be able to make me laugh! Hilarious! :rofl:
They had me at “City Woke”
This is one of the funniest South Park movies I've seen Would recommend
Trey and Matt still got it
I can see why people love this, it's the most middlebrow attempt at social commentary I've seen since Joker. This is kind of a genius concept, but the writing continuously rambles on incoherently about the topic of pandering. It draws no sharp (or accurate) conclusion by placing equal blame on both parties. At best this episode will be a conversation starter (which is a good thing), but a lot of the points it's making aren't all that well thought out. Pandering or no pandering, Dial of Destiny is still pretty much an unsalvageable mess, you know. The B-story is in many ways the sharper storyline, although the ideas kinda grow stale after a while. Still, this short film is one of the funniest things I've seen from South Park in a while. Combined with the reliably good animation, voice acting and tight pacing, this a mild recommendation.
5.5/10
Another great South Park made-for-TV movie!
South Park wants to make fun of Disney and morons running around screaming woke. Fails miserably at both. Just comes off as anti female and anti Disney. Instead it reeks of white male dumbasses not understanding their own culpability while shitting on women and white trash.... pretty much the same shit as every day in the USA with no solution or true satire.
It was great fun. I'm just very disappointed to have a whole South park movie about Disney and not have Mickey mouse show up.
[5.5/10[ Remember when South Park’s social commentary was incisive and biting? Now the show’s reduced to parroting generic boomer criticism and repeating the same tired comments you can see in a million places on the internet. It’s a bitch getting older, let me tell you.
“People don’t know how to do things anymore.” “Trades are now more lucrative than college.” “Disney makes lazy movies.” “Everything is too ‘female, gay, and lame.’” “Multiverse storytelling sucks.”
There are not the comments of an expert, experienced group of cultural commentators. They are the same collection of comments you can find on a million articles, YouTube videos, and other online rabbit holes right about now.
Sure, South Park is slightly more clever about it, and there’s at least some satirization of these views. But I don’t know, for a show making fun of laziness and being out-of-touch from other studios, it’s pretty easy to accuse the show of doing the same thing.
You want to know the funny thing? I actually really got a kick out of Panderverse Cartman here. Maybe it was just Janeshia Adams-Ginyard’s performance, which did a good job of replicating Trey Parker’s rhythms without doing a straight imitation of the character. But I also think to drive the concept home, reverted her to more of Cartman’s classic characterization, which was honestly refreshing! Panderverse Cartman going to incredible lengths and cons and resources, just to play Baldur’s Gate is total golden era Cartman shtick, and is frankly better than some of the stuff we’ve been getting lately.
Otherwise, the big about Randy trying to find a handyman and getting a group whipped up and mad at them, college, and millionaires, was clumsy and not particularly funny. Most of the other multiverse gags and commentary were nothing to write home about either. Cartman’s dream sequences and the visits to other universes got tired fast.
There’s a few bright spots here and there. I appreciate the setup and payoff of Randy’s broken oven that caused all the trouble being the multiversal doorway. The “multiverse” just being him in different clothes was a decent laugh. And the observation that audiences didn’t mind formulaic films until they started getting more diverse is a solid one too.
But man, “both sides”-ing the issue at hand -- declaring that bigoted hate spurs pandering spurs bigoted hate spurs pandering, so both parties are to blame, is such a weak, mealy-mouthed take. Considering it’s how the show ends the special, it’s particular meh.
Overall, this is another instance of South Park having lost more than a step, instead devolving into generic online criticisms and “old man yells at cloud” style gripes, without the deftness of delivery, insight, or humor that used to elevate it. Watchable but not good.
PUT A CHICK IN IT AND MAKE HER LAME AND GAY
Wow they really hit the nail on the head with this one. I cannot stop laughing at this one.
I can't say it was super funny, but it was right on point with everything what's going on in the world right now. Especially stupid Hollywood.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I love these Paramount+ South Park special. 45 minutes, in and out of a high quality humor story. I’ll continue to enjoy these as long as they keep coming out.
Rating: 3.5/5 - 80% - Would Recommend
The Randy plot line is genius.
They used the Multiverse idea better than Marvel did with Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness.
The concept itself could have been funny, but the execution wasn’t great. It was a little boring and repetitive; the story would have probably worked better as a normal 20 minute episode
Don't ya wish it was on TV?
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Best South Park episode in years.