I haven't watched South Park in years and didn't even realise this stupid movie was made by the creator, Trey Parker. Better, he was played as Alfred himself and I finally got to see him in one of his movies. He has so much of Quentin Tarantino style by appearing in movies he has made. Is Tarantino copying him lol? I thought it was more gory in the beginning then in the end. A lot of makeup was used so much that I couldn't understand why this movie was low budget? I know this was before his success in South Park but, he should've done some of the props a lot better! All I can say to that, at least he got good actors, singers and of course, the makeup to keep the film going. The songs were too stupid to memorise but they do make you sing-a-long and laugh hysterically to them!I also thought this movie was inspired by Charles Manson by the way Parker had his characters appearance! He should've been in a biopic about the Serial Killer,he would make more of a fortune!Guys, you have to sit down and watch this, it's hilarious!

I saw this movie for the first time on a drunken binge through my brothers DVD's one day ( He has some of the worst movies ever made ). I found it fun to breeze through his crap and see what kind of a mess there is. My god I found this.I looked at it and immediately compelled. A musical... about cannibalism.The songs are priceless, the acting is bad, the production is poor, but these are the things that make this movie priceless. And I do mean priceless. The Liquored up track is awesome. The main cast drinking through the whole film. Once again priceless. Best commentary ever.This is a must see.

I watched this with friends one night when we were having a B movie marathon. Little did we know how much this would take us by surprise.The opening scene is somewhat scary but corny, and the corniness and wit of the jokes just expands from there. For musical fans, this is a sing along movie if I've ever seen one. I'm not really into musicals, but the songs are so funny and nonsensical that it makes the movie all the more entertaining as an experience.The characters don't really develop, but who cares? Trey Parker's Alferd Packer is hilarious and impeccably timed with his cheerful, naive humor. The adventure they go on through what looks like rural Colorado finds plenty of laughs on the way, with brilliantly nuanced jokes that show a level of sociological understanding that's missing from a low brow comedy. This is not one of those.Watch it, and don't be shocked if it's the funniest independent film you've ever seen.

"Cannibal! The Musical" is inspired by the true story of Alferd Packer (although his real name was allegedly "Alfred" and "Alferd" came about because he didn't know how to spell his own name correctly). Packer was one of only two men - along with Albert Fish - to ever be convicted of cannibalism in America. (Apparently serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer had enough going against him already that he wasn't tried for cannibalism on top of mass murder).Packer led a group of five men into Colorado in search of gold. They got lost and were stranded in desolate conditions, and eventually Packer killed his men and ate them. (Although according to Wikipedia recent evidence indicates he never killed them, and in 1981 he was apparently acquitted of crimes long after his death. I guess they figured eating people who are already dead in order to survive doesn't qualify as full-out cannibalism. I'm not really sure about the specifics on how that works.) Trey Parker and Matt Stone made this movie before "South Park." I believe it was actually filmed in 1994 and first screened at the Alferd Packer College (yes, there's a college named after him) which is presumably located in Colorado. It's become a cult film over the years and the title was changed to "Cannibal: The Musical" after Troma producers convinced Trey that not enough people outside of the state were aware of who Alferd Packer actually was. (I certainly wasn't - I thought it was a fictional character before looking up the film on Wikipedia.) First things first - I have so far been largely unimpressed by Trey and Matt's live-action ventures. I've become a huge "South Park" fan within the past year or so, but I bought "Orgazmo" on DVD and thought it was a very juvenile and average comedy, and although I have not seen "BASEketball" yet, even Trey and Matt have acknowledged that it is not a good film, so I don't feel like I'm entirely missing out."Cannibal" is a huge cult film and I had heard a lot of good things about it from various people on the Internet, in particular one Troma video fan. Well, this is my first Troma video (if it qualifies as one) and maybe that's part of the reason I couldn't get into it.Parts of it are very funny, but for the most part it really isn't very humorous at all. It actually develops something of a story and isn't as loud or obvious as some of Parker's other material. "South Park" is very satirical and witty but it's much more obvious than the comedy here, which is tamer and not quite as edgy. Some of the songs are quite funny but a number of them are inferior versions of songs that would appear in the "South Park" movie and "Team America: World Police." Songs from that film like "The End of an Act" (the one that bashes Ben Affleck and Michael Bay) are much cleverer and musically catchy than anything found here.The cast is generally weak and Trey is visibly awkward throughout - presumably since it was his first real movie. It's very low-budget (filmed for $125,000 - compared to the eventual $1 million they received per episode of "That's My Bush!" in 2001), and part of the reason the film isn't as engrossing at times is due to its budget: it looks like a student movie made by some friends who made up a lot of gags as they went along...and for the most part that's probably a rather accurate summary.I know the film has a cult following and an impressive rating on this site, but I think if you're not a die-hard Trey Parker fan or a follower of the Troma film series, it'll leave you a bit underwhelmed, especially if you're familiar with the boys' recent work on "South Park" and "Team America." It has its strong points but they are far and few between, and for the most part it's a very amateurish production that isn't up to par with their later stuff.An interesting note of curiosity for fans of "South Park," but I couldn't really warm up to it.