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    South Park - Vol 15
    Warner Vision/Warner Vision . R4 . COLOR . 88 mins . M15+ . PAL

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    Helen Keller, the Musical: It's Thanksgiving extravaganza time, and being in grade four our favourite whippersnappers have to front up with the Helen Keller story. Aah, but what's that Butters? The kindie kids have special effects and pyrotechnics? Dudes, what do we do now? Make Helen Keller more exciting, that's what! First requirement, a smart turkey that turns, erm, does tricks. Timmy and Kyle set off in search of… Gobbles! Unhappy with their choice, director Cartman ropes in Ellenicia, a Broadway turkey on a total star trip, and hatches a plan to get Gobbles out of the way - but Timmy has become rather attached to the bird. Will they take Gobbles away from Timmy? Where did he get hold of a Zippo? What the hell is going on in Cartman's head? How do you have a Helen Keller musical with no Helen Keller? Call THAT humane?! Kenny gets a musical send off...

    Fat Camp: Sick dude! While they're dissecting manatees at school, Cartman is at home enjoying a nice spot of Terrance and Phillip, until… It's intervention time, as half the town gathers to send Cartman off to a weight management retreat for a few weeks. A while later, a leaner, cleaner Cartman emerges, 40lbs lighter, and quite the strange little sight. But is all as it seems? Meanwhile after accepting some dreadful dares for cash, word of Kenny's exploits spreads until he gets his own TV programme, The Krazy Kenny Show, and the boys get a lesson on prostitutes from Chef, with assistance from James Taylor. So, why aren’t the fat camp inmates losing weight, especially with all that nummy soybean pudding? Kenny's going to crawl WHERE?! What is a hummer? Kenny dies… or does he?

    Wacky Molestation Adventure: Cartman has four tickets to see the Raging Pussies, but d'oh (oops, wrong cartoon), Kyle actually asks his parents if he can go! Told he can as long as he accomplishes some chores, Kyle sets about shovelling the driveway and bringing about democracy in Cuba, and learns a lesson about parents in the process. Incensed with the injustice of it all, the kids hatch a plan to get rid of their parents, and the town descends into a Lord of the Flies type world split into Smiley Town and Treasure Cove. But what will happen when two strangers break down and hit the town in search of help? Can they help stop fat ass? Where did the birth-givers end up? Who is the Provider? Why can’t Americans say Craig properly? Will Butters be sacrificed? All this after only ten days?! Poor, poor little Kenny...

    A Very Crappy Christmas: It's Hanukkah time, so Kyle and Ike are on a toilet-side vigil awaiting Mr Hankey. But why hasn't he shown? The boys hit the sewers in search of and what's this? Mr Hankey has a family - a sous wife and three nuggets, Cornwallis, Amber and Simon (who's a little slow as he was born with a peanut in his head). Daunted by marital hassles and under the belief that the spirit of Christmas is dead, Mr Hankey is a shadow of his former self, can the kids help? You bet - they set out to make their own animated Christmas special, I mean how hard can it be? Meanwhile, Cornwallis is having a crisis but after a quick Lion King-inspired lesson on the pood chain from his Dad he's up and ready for action, helping his family restore the drive-in in readiness for the debut of the kids' epic - but will it be finished in time? Cue Korea... How come everybody in cartoons has such big heads? Has the commercialism been sucked out of Christmas? Where are Kenny's pants? What do you do with a sad poo? What's a hard P? Kenny... oh, you should know by now.

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    It's the final South Park - BABADADA, BABADA DA DA… oops, sorry, I was having one of those annoying little Europe moments there…

    Well, perhaps I'm being a tad melodramatic, as it's just the last one for now - so what can I find to say that I haven’t said eleven times previously?

    Hmmm, let's see. there's more of the funky updated theme song, bar for some occasional shimmery bits (usually on fat boy Cartman) it's all quite the treat visually (in comparison SBS totally sucks ass), the sound is Dolby Stereo as always, giving us some quite nice effects at times considering its limitations, and finally, on their fifteenth attempt, whoever assembled this didn’t leave any Comedy Central logos strobing away wildly setting epileptics worldwide off into manic spasms.

    France has been sent to Coventry once again, with no subtitles or audio track in their language like the first three seasons, and the extras cupboard is as bare as ever. After finally getting it right on the 14th instalment, once again the piddly extra "feature" that displays the fourth season's disc covers doesn't work properly.

    Going out with a bang, this disc contains some of the most tasteless South Park moments I've witnessed (and I've seen'em all honey!), some of which will have people with weaker constitutions up in arms, whilst fans will most likely be engulfed with ROTFLTAO giggling fits. I must say though that Trey and Matt deserve a mighty slap for being such teases, as with repeated calls to make the South Park prototype The Spirit of Christmas available to us mere mortals in a format other than crappy postage stamp-sized MPEG file, they just show bits of it in A Very Crappy Christmas. I have to wonder how hard it would have been to slap it on this disc as a bonus, but that would be too nice of them now, wouldn’t it?

    So now it's withdrawal symptoms time until the fifth season finds its way to shiny little disc, but if nothing else it should be worth the wait just to hear Thom of Radiohead talking about ass cancer. Besides, my fragile little mind has borne enough warping recently that it's time for some serious, serious rehab...


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  •   And I quote...
    "Stoned principals, chocolate friends, Fidel Castro and crap animation - Oh my god! It's the last (well, for now) South Park disc!"
    - Amy Flower
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