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It wasn't that I was looking for funnier than a good episode. I was looking for something that gave it a reason to exist as a movie at all. Something extra, something that pushed it beyond being just a long episode. Do I know what that something is? Hardly. Hell, after 17+ years of episodes, I'm hardly convinced such a thing exists. Double hell, after 17+ years of episodes, I'm downright certain that there's nothing left to even justify further TV episodes, let alone a movie. The characters have nowhere to go, everything they do is just rehash and caricature.
I thought the first 1/3 of the movie started out strongish, but it petered out quickly. By my math, it's 1/3 a good and 2/3 a poor = should-have-done-this-12-years-ago
In the case of South Park, yes I think they did a good job of moving it beyond just a long episode. Both in terms of the scale of the storyline and the scope of the character arcs. And most importantly, they did it long before they ran out of ideas.
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