South Park: Imaginationland

Family Guy released "stewie griffin the untold story" a few years back as a straight to video family guy movie.They then played it cut into three episodes on television.South Park's Imaginationland was originally a three-parter episode.It was combined and released as a film on DVD with extra footage.I am going to review this as a movie.Imaginationland is a great movie which is just as good as Bigger, Longer and Uncut.It has an interesting storyline and is hilarious, just like the South Park series is! It also has plenty of interesting characters.Imaginationland the movie starts off with Cartman telling everybody he saw a leprechaun.Kyle does not believe him and Cartman bets that if they do see a leprechaun, Kyle must suck his balls!, they see one and find out he is from a place called Imaginationland.Imaginationland is where all the imaginary characters reside.HOwever, terrorists break into imaginationland and break the portal where all the evil characters are! With the help of the US government and Butters, the boys must save imaginationland! Meanwhile, Cartman goes through great lengths to get Kyle to suck his balls! Imaginationland is an interesting and great south park movie and is definitely recommended to fans.

I'm gonna judge this as both a movie and as individual 3-parter episodes since they were originally the latter, but were edited together as a feature-length movie for it's DVD release.

As a MOVIE, it's obviously no Bigger, Longer and Uncut. That film was pretty much a perfect film adaptation. It used as many characters from the show as possible, has gags and elements you'd see on the show (such as Kenny dying), and stays true to what you'd see on the small screen whilst upping the scale to make it feel truly epic. Even after my second rewatch, it's still an experience. Imaginationland is still a really solid movie, but definitely does feel lacking in comparision. It does feel like a movie for the most part, but it becomes obvious when they transition between each episode. They show the original title cards (they also read Kyle Sucks Cartman's B**ls instead of Imaginationland, which is strange), and that confused me since Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story was also three episodes edited together as a movie, but didn't include those credits at the beginning of each part that you'd see in a normal episode. I don't know if this was the case for the actual episodes, but the movie with them combined had an original intro in the style of the 'Road to' episodes that showed the credits there.

But I don't wanna compare it to Bigger, Longer and Uncut too much since the latter was a theatrical release, while this is just something made for TV with a lower budget, so of course they can't reach the same quality as something made for cinemas. It's not really fair.

So how is it as a 3-PARTER EPISODE? Fantastic. Some of the best episodes from the show. The stakes are high, the plot is engaging, and the concept (of fictional characters like Strawberry Shortcake, gods like Zeus, and holiday icons like Santa Claus living in their own land together) is really cool. And because this is South Park, they give it an edgy twist without being too bleak, and instead, hilarious.

As a direct-to-video movie, it's an 8/10, but as a 3-part episode, it's an easy 10/10.

My favorite SP episodes are the ones that are more self contained stories instead of direct of the time social commentary. Those are amazing when they release but get dated quickly. But here it feels timeless.

Imagination Land is one of their multi part episodes, it really is an... "imaginative" idea and Trey & Matt really are able to find so many great directions with the story while including a lot of aspects from their history for long time fans.

I have not seen the version on DVD, but I have seen the 3 episodes on television and on On Deamand for free.'Imaginationland' is basically 3 episodes combined together to make an entire movie.For 1 hour, I sat in my sofa and was entertained.Since I'm a huge fan of 'South Park', I love just about any episode.I even liked the 1999 movie 'South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut.'Imaginationland' is just as excellent as any other good episode.The only difference between the this and the others is that this is more of a movie than just 3 episodes combined to make 1 movie.Just know that this episode is full of very rude humor and some slightly graphic animated violence, so this one isn't for everyone.Overall, I highly recommend this movie if you love the television series, funny and crude humor, and the first movie.Using your imagination has never been this funny.

This was originally going to be the second film, compared to the first one this wouldn't be as good but still these are classic 3 parter episodes. The main plot is great and Cartman's sub plot is hilarious, every fan should see this!

Bonus Review for South Park in general:

The fact south park has managed to stay on the air after all the grief they have gotten over the years shows how great it really is.

Constantly keeping up to date, always being funny, reinventing the format, characters you care about (everyone has a favourite) and brilliant stories make this my joint favourite cartoon (tied with Futurama) of all time.

The Simpsons really went off a cliff in the last 10 or so years, but I think south park has stayed strong pretty much every season, even my least favourite season has classic episodes in it.

If you're reading reviews to see if you should start watching; you really should. Stick with it as it starts to hit it's stride and look better after a couple of seasons.

And if you haven't seen the film, that is a must see!