Not as good as the TV series

Rating: 4/10 (3 July 2008)

This movie is like "The sound of music", but not as funny. By that I mean it has the American passion for musical numbers (a passion that I don't share). If the songs were better, I'd give this movie more. It has nothing of the poppy catchiness of "Dreidl" from the vastly superior TV version of this cartoon.
Another thing which I think is noteworthy is that this movie made me react like Australian politician Franca Arena: "The children! The children!". In other words, I kept thinking how inappropriate this movie is for children. One moment of shock and delight happened when the boys in the cartoon sang a song with lyrics "uncle f_r". The lyric is not bowdlerised in the cartoon.
The other shocking moment in the cartoon (at least when thinking of "impressionalbe minds") is a scene where you see what looks like a photo of an erect penis (if it's not real, it looks very real).
Anyway, I think this foray into movies is a very disappointing one for the boys from South Park: the foul mouthed passive aggressive/aggressive aggressive Cartman, the conscience of the trio, Kyle, the po' white trash of Kenny, and Stan...whatever attribute it is that he's meant to possess.
Some regular characters of the TV series make an appearance in this movie: Saddam Hussein and Satan, as well as, from memory, Terrence and Phillip.
Overall, the movie lacks the killer social and pop cultural satire of the TV series. And it has loads more music. Americans and music...what's up with that? I mean, I HATED those scenes in movies where characters burst into song, like "Beetlejuice" and "The wedding planner" (or whatever that movie was where they sing "I say a little prayer"...UGGH!!).