Cannibal - The Musical DVD > Reviews > lets build a snowman!!!!

Author's product rating:   

Did you enjoy it?	Loved it
Story	Good
Characters / Performances	Outstanding
Special Effects	Good
How does it compare to similar films?	Not applicable

Advantages:	Funny, entertaining, catchy songs
Disadvantages:	quite expensive to buy .

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

**** Warning Spoilers ahead!****

Trey Parker stars as Alfred Packer in this all singing all dancing true life account of Alfred packer.

The story starts with Alfred Packer, he wants to go back to his home town of Breckonridge but when the leader of the party, Lucky Larry gets struck by lighting Alfred gets burdened with the job of leading a group of diggers to Breckonridge to find gold. The party is made up of Alfred and five others, Shannon Wilson Bell (Ian Hardin) who always looks on the bright side of life, Israel Swan (Jon Hegel) a religious but somewhat insane character, Frank Miller (Jason McHugh) a butcher who hates to sing, James Humphrey (Matt Stone) a chronic liar and lastly, George Noon (Dian Bachar) a sex starved teenager.

The excursion starts out fine, the men have high moral and are optimistic about the journey that lies ahead. Soon the group meet a party of trappers who spot Alfred's horse, Leanne. When Leanne disappears Alfred moral drops to a all time low so he takes his group in search of his horse, their search is uneventful and the men start to worry about their situation, and also about Alfred.

The group soon stumble upon an Indian's camp where they stay and meet the trappers again. Alfred then accuses the trappers of stealing Leanne and the trappers them leave with haste. Alfred then persuades the group to leave the camp as well, even though Indian chief ( Masao Maki) warns then not to.

Soon the group get lost and al blame Alfred, They then run out of food and when Shannon Wilson Bell keeps sing a song about snowmen Swan loses it and shoots him in the head. With a new source of food the group start to have hope but this is soon lost when winter comes and they are stuck in the mountains, with only each other to keep them alive.

When only Alfred arrives at Sawatch the townsfolk start to get suspicious and decide to find out what really happened to Alfred's fellow miners.

This film is a mixture o f comedy and gore, intertwined with some very funny and catchy songs which include such titles as, it's a Shpadoinkle day! and That's all were asking for!

The opening scene (where Alfred is killing his party, quite brutally) is not for the faint hearted as it is full on and very gory, but also is still very funny. There are also some great characters in this movie which include the Cyclops with the pussy eye to the Indian Chief, named Indian Chief.

Overall this is a great movie even though it had a low budget and puts some of the Hollywood blockbusters to shame! It is a success to first time director Trey Parker as he managed to bring three different genres (comedy, horror and musical) together seamlessly.

This is a must as it has something for everybody!