South Park’s Next Movie Must Go Back To What Made The Original So Good

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Now that South Park is committing to making more movies, the show should learn from its first and best feature-length effort, the 1999 theatrical release South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Making a successful jump to features is not easy for any animated TV show. Whether it's The Bobs Burgers Movie orThe Simpsons Movie, any attempt to bring half-hour cartoon series charms to a bigger, more ambitious canvas always runs the risk of drowning out what made the show unique in the first place.

One of the most notable instances of a series avoiding this fate came in the form of South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. As a feature-length continuation of the Comedy Central phenomenon, the first South Park movie seemed destined for failure back when the project was announced. After all, as a television show, South Park was a scrappy program with intentionally bad animation and a crude sense of humor. These qualities made for great small-screen comedy but could easily have become grating when forced to fill the theatrical scope and the extended runtime of a feature-length movie.

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Featuring some of South Park’s best gags ever, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was a distillation of the show’s appeal. As goofy and silly as the TV series but filled with surprisingly smart satirical commentary on censorship, international relations, and religion, South Park’s first movie was a real achievement. Therefore, it was surprising that South Park didn’t return to feature-length storytelling for decades. In August 2021, however, the show's creators announced 14 new South Park movies were in the works. Unfortunately, the first of these features failed to recapture the feel