Every so often there comes along that gets people online so riled up that you just have to check it out the first chance that you get. Well that;s exactly what happened when South Park dropped the teaser trailer for South Park: Joining The Panderverse as alot of people got upset that South Park was doing what it always does and always has done and that's make fun of everybody and well with the special dropping today on Paramount+ I just really had to check out and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the special that really had alot of people really upset just from the teaser trailer alone with the special in question being called simply just "South Park: Joining The Panderverse" enjoy.
The plot of the special is when Cartman finds himself sucked into another dimension that replaces everybody with different versions of themselves the boys have to find away to get him back before it's far to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot tat's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty the weakest aspect of this special as the special plot was rather on the weak side with the plot not really showing up until about twenty minuets and even then the plot really just disappears quite alot of the time in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this special is this specials writer , director and the shows co-creator Trey Parker as Stan Marsh , Eric Cartman , Randy Marsh , PC Principal , Mr. Fixit , Dr. Krongberg , Tom Tompson , Chris Martins , Stephen Stotch , Alternate Herbert Garrison , Alternate Harrison Yates and Alternate Kathleen Kennedy. Also starring in this special is the shows co-creator Matt Stone as Kyle Broflovski , Kenny McCormick , Butters Stotch , Gerald Broflovski , Bob Iger and Cereal Kyle , April Stewart as Sharon Marsh , Liane Cartman , Shelly Marsh and Alien Liane Cartman , Mona Marshall as Sheila Broflovski , Adrien Beard as Steve Black , Kimberly Brooks as Linda Black and Kathleen Kennedy , Janeshia Adams-Ginyard as Alternate Eric Cartman , Mo Ashley as Alternate Stan Marsh , Alice Ghostlie as Alternate Kenny McCormick , Diana Lauren Jones as Alternate Kyle Broflovski , Bibi Mama as Alternate Butters Stotch and Luis Perez as Mark Parker.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty really good. Wit all of the cast in this special turning in some really good performances which does make sense as not only does this show always have some really good acting in it but alot of this specials voice cast are a bunch of really good voice actors and really helping things is the fact that this specials script is so good that all the cast have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a god performance will come out more naturally.
Doing the animation for this special is the legends and the greats that are currently over at South Park Studios. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty really good which again really shouldn't be all that surprising as the animation in this show has always been really good and what really does help the animation in this special is the fact that it really does look like that it could belong in a feature length film not just a streaming special as the animation is that good.
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This special takes alot of shots at not only Disney but also Lucasfilm and the fact that alot of superhero movies in general have been using the idea of a multiverse. Heck even the first real joke in the main South Park universe is them taking aim at Disney with the title of this film being done in the style of the Disney logo and heck even the specials title could be seen as a reference to Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse but for me while the multiverse story was indeed very entertaining what was more entertaining was the storyline with Randy where they oddly take a shot at the fact that the owners of X / Twitter and Facebook want to get into an MMA ring and fight each other and heck Randy's story was just more entertaining overall.
For a special that deals with the multiverse they don't really spend alot of time explaining how the multiverse works in the world of South Park. Which is a shame because they really could have gone over the top with the idea of the multiverse which is something that they do hint at at the end of special but it's something that would have been really cool to see as seeing South Park take apart something that's infecting modern day cinema could have been really entertaining and seeing the different South Park universes could have been really fun to see but at the same time it's also something that would have felt like padding as well.
I've held of on it for long as I could but I have to talk about the so called "controversy" surrounding this special. As a certain group of people got upset that South Park was making fun of both race and gender swapping characters for no reason yet those exact same people were more then OK when South Park mocked people who believed differently from them in The Pandemic Special and don't realise that just like The Simpsons South Park takes aim at anybody and everything just because they were taking on something that those people liked and agree with doesn't mean that they can't show us the funny side to that idea if anything it means that they should do it more often as the gender and race swapped versions of the characters in this special were actually well written and were very entertaining for the really small and short amount of time that they were on screen.
Now then this special has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty eight minuets and forty seconds. Which was a bit on the long side for this special as the special really doesn't have alot of story to cover that large amount of running time in the first place with alot of the stuff with Randy mostly feeling like padding even tho it's very entertaining which is a shame because they could have stretched this episode alot more just by developing the alternate universe of San , Kyle and Kenny all of whom get the short end of the stick as we don't get to really spend alot of time in the alternate world which is something that we could have done if the makers of this of this special well and truly wanted to but I will admit that this special really does have some really good pacing to it.
So now then as this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty really good. With this special having a lot of truly laugh out loud moments with alot of what alternate Cartman says being true comedy gold and even the idea that Kathleen Kennedy is somehow involved is just a funny idea with the same thing also being true for the fact that all of the parents of the main universe South Park just accepting the fact that Cartman is now a now female of color also being a really funny running gag and the fact that all of the handymen in town are now wealthy for no reason is just a funny idea in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
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Overall this was a really fun and funny special but at the same time it's neither as fun nor as funny as it perhaps could or maybe even really should have been as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very special in this very review and as such that meas that this very special really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8 out of 10 from me.
Now then as of for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse fandom wiki page , the official South Park fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very review being Google Images simply just due to the fact that alot of the images that are on Google Images are all really fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.