I’m a big fan of SOUTH PARK. there I said it, I don’t know if I’m going straight to hell for saying that, but you gotta admit, this past decade, our world has been turned upside down by the animated comedy series that pushes boundaries like no other. Cartman, Kyle, Stan, Butters, Kenny and the fourth grade gang would go where no man has gone before to make fun of current affairs and today’s pop culture and media. If you’re being talked about… you can bet your ass you’re gonna be roasted on South Park.. and it always amazes me how fast these guys work.. the humor is up-to-date and relevant.
The first movie, SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER, & UNCUT was a bit hard to watch but it was one of those that you just couldn’t keep you eyes off of it and you’d find yourself laughing so hard, your side hurts like hell. So how about a sequel?
Co-Creator Trey Park talked to LA TIMES recently stating that they’re thinking of making another SOUTH PARK theatrical movie, one that would end the series once and for all.
“We talked about maybe some day doing a movie to sort of end it all, and that seems like the best idea,” Parker said. “That’s been a big thought to do the last show as a movie.”
He also mentioned that he and his buddy Matt Stone will not consider the possibility of a sequel if it doesn’t have a stellar plot. That makes sense. But at one point, they were thinking of bringing one particular story to the big screen but it ended up being a three-part story for the series instead…
“We came up with this pretty good idea for a movie, and then of course what happened was we got in the middle of a ‘South Park’ run, and were completely out of ideas,” Parker recalls. “And we were like, well, we’ve got to use the movie idea. And that became ‘Imaginationland.’”
Imaginationland, which is available on DVD, was pretty decent but it failed to crack me up like their usual episodes. I think it would’ve done terribly at the box office if it had been released in theaters.
When asked if they would like do another non-South Park movie in the same spirit as their other creations…Captain Orgazmo or Team America, this is what Parker said..
“We started going down the movie route,” Parker said hesitantly. “Basically, ‘Team America’ just killed the movie spirit in us…”
“It was just a much bigger beast than we ever could have imagined,” Parker said. “Even the guy who shot all ‘The Matrix’ movies and the ‘Spider-Man’ movies would agree that it was the toughest movie shoot to do because it was trying to do a huge action film with marionettes, who don’t do anything, and not use any computers to fix anything or do any effects.”
By the way, read my article on Sacrilegious movies which mentions SOUTH PARK as an example.
Maybe they should just make a sequel movie that just focuses on Cartman, he’s my favorite character in the show. Either that or make fun of today’s crappy economy for once.
If you were to pitch in an idea for the movie SOUTH PARK 2, what would it be about?
