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The South Park movie is legitimately one of the best musicals ever made
- Thread starter Jack Bauer
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Also, I fucking love this movie and still my favorite South Park thing. I must've seen it a million times by now.
Team America has a lot of great songs, but it's rarely the "cast" singing them.
Up There is legit one of my favorite Musical pieces ever.
I don't know if I'd make that claim, but despite it originally being in a weird place for me since it wasn't quite what I was wanting from a South Park movie when it came out being so musical heavy, the songs really do hold up pretty well. It's a pretty legit musical.
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My mom rented it for me when I was a kid. She just saw it was animated and didn't check to see what she was renting.
I watched it while she was taking a nap. It absolutely corrupted me for life. 😂
The songs are legit fantastic. La Resistance is one of the best End of Act 1 songs for ANY musical.
Yeah the musical parts are really catchy, for how crude they are.
Well at least your mother didn't start blaming Canada afterwards!
Well at least your mother didn't start blaming Canada afterwards!
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I mean even if we were strictly talking animated musicals, it would rank somewhere behind almost every Disney animated movie ever made.
Ok.
I was wondering if it was the only one you saw and then proclaimed it the best--not uncommon on the Internets lol.
I liked it a lot myself, but would not consider it tops.
I have plenty of problems with South Park (especially now that I'm older and not as dumb as I once was), but yeah, SPTM is great. It's a musical for people that hate musicals.
Watched it in theaters
hate musicals
loved this
it was funny and served the purpose of the story, and they were catchy and you wanted to sing them afterwards
hate musicals
loved this
it was funny and served the purpose of the story, and they were catchy and you wanted to sing them afterwards
No. It's a great movie with some catchy songs -- But very much no. That said, if you liked it, I encourage you to seek out other musicals and explore the genre. There's a lot of fantastic musicals out there.
This.
Book of Mormon is much much better than South Park: The Movie. For one thing, the songs are actually a good length, and there's more of them. They also play to the strengths of those who are actually able to sing.
Even with that in mind, I wouldn't say Book of Mormon is one of the best ever either. It just was/sort of still is a hot ticket on Broadway.
*It's a musical for people who think they hate musicals/want to hate musicals.
If you liked this movie, you probably would like other musicals.
I love it. I think I've listened to this soundtrack more than any other musical. I would absolutely kill for a stage adaptation of it. Cast actual ten year olds for maximum offense.
It's insane how much sticking power the songs have, they're just an absolute joy. "Up There", "I'm Super", "La Resistance" are always on rotation for me. It really is one of the best musical/comedies of all time.
This seems pretty condescending no? I must have seen 100+ and it ranks in my top slots pretty consistently.
I'm not sure who is making that consideration, and it certainly is good. Don't get me wrong. But Matt and Trey's juvenile humor is all over it, and really holds it back from being a timeless classic, IMO. And to clarify on that, the play as constructed would not work without that juvenile humor. But it'd be nice to see them try to do one without relying on that as a crutch.
Not really. OP, didn't mention any other musicals in the OP, so I was wondering the point of reference.
Also, I can see it being a top musical. I don't believe in high or low brow classifications in media.
Also, as mentioned above, the movie as well known as the musical for people that hate musicals.
I grew up with my mother and sister watching Rocky Horror, Grease, West Side Story etc. a lot and I just couldn't stand them and still check out when the singing starts. Ironically, I've been a professional musician and a music freak in general. I've also seen several on Broadway and it isn't my cup at all generally.
I rewatched the South Park movie a few years back and was surprised how good a musical it is. Book of Mormon is even better though.
It's pretty great. For some reason the lyric that's stuck with me the most over the years is:
"Shut your fucking face, uncle fucka! You're a boner biting bastard, uncle fucka!"
"Shut your fucking face, uncle fucka! You're a boner biting bastard, uncle fucka!"