8.2 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 4.0 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
Misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.
Starring: Matt Stone, Trey Parker, Isaac Hayes, Mona Marshall, April Stewart (I)Comedy | 100% |
Animation | 76% |
Dark humor | 47% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.78:1, 1.33:1
English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1
English: Dolby Digital 2.0
English SDH
Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (2 BDs)
Region A, B (C untested)
Movie | 4.0 | |
Video | 4.5 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 2.0 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
South Park's eleventh season marks yet another rock-solid run of episodes. It can't match the previous, Emmy Award-winning season for consistency of greatness, but there's still no major dud to be found (unless one counts a giant turd). This season features the infamous racist Wheel of Fortune episode, a 24 parody, fun with homeless people and Tourette syndrome, a riff on Guitar Hero, and the popular three part episode about terrorists attempting to attack the imagination. The Imaginationland trio would later be edited together into a single movie, with previously unreleased footage added in. Unfortunately, this film is not included in this Blu-ray set.
South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season features another excellent image, this one lacking much in the way of significant jaggies and shimmering, problems plaguing previous seasons, often to more noticeable and annoying levels than anything seen here. Beyond some shimmering on some exterior overview vistas in Imaginationland, there's not much here of concern. The image offers bountiful colors, as is typical of the series, boasting some punchy and pleasing blues, reds, greens, yellows, oranges...that same South Park color splash that's been with the series all along. The Blu-ray handles them professionally, offering an abundance of eye-catching brilliance, even in the fairly monochromatic spectrum. Detailing is strong; the show's cardboard-like textural integrity is intact, and lines are clean and the image is crisp and very well defined. Fans will again be thrilled with this offering from Paramount and Comedy Central.
As per the series norm on Blu-ray, South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season contains a Dolby TrueHD 5.1 lossless soundtrack. The track delivers typically rich music, presenting with agreeable front-end spacing and surround support, particularly considering some orchestral notes during a ceremony in More Crap, an episode which also offers solid dialogue reverberation as well as immersive crowd applause. Enjoyable guitar riffs with plenty of stage space and energetic verve may be heard in the guitar hero episode. General atmospherics are nicely defined and do well to effortlessly draw the appropriate sonic picture as any given scene demands. Various action effects -- which in South Park can be anything from explosions to people vomiting or suffering through diarrhea -- present with commendable clarity and a well-rounded accompanying low end. Dialogue, as always, is center-positioned, clear, and refined with all of the vocal inflections easy to hear and distinguish.
South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season contains only the "mini commentaries" for each episode. Parker and Stone talk up the episodes in short-burst chunks.
South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season marks the end of the HD-remastered season sets released by Paramount and Comedy Central to Blu-ray. It's been a blast revisiting all of them; there are some undeniable classics in nearly every season, and the show has certainly aged very well, both in terms of entertainment value as well as its ever-relevant social and political insight and humor. The series looks great overall on Blu-ray as well, and even with some recurring problems (which are barely an issue in season eleven), fans will be ecstatic to revisit these shows in 1.78:1 1080p high definition. The 5.1 lossless soundtracks are wonderful as well. Highly recommended, this season as well as the ten preceding it.
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