South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		4.0
Video		4.5
Audio		4.5
Extras		2.0
Overall		4.0

South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season Blu-ray Movie Review

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.

• With Apologies to Jesse Jackson: Randy is a contestant on Wheel of Fortune and playing in the final round. The letters on the board spell “n_ggers” and he, of course, fills in the blank with the letter “I” instead of the correct letter, which was “A.” His family is disappointed in him and he's shamed around town. Randy becomes a national sensation for all the wrong reasons and has to apologize to Jesse Jackson by kissing his read end. Meanwhile, Cartman gets under the skin of a motivational speaker who happens to be a dwarf.
• Cartman Sucks: Butters is spending the night with Cartman, and the big boy has something special planned, a new “compromising position” photo in which Butters’ wiener will be placed in Cartman’s mouth. The boys claim that that makes Cartman gay, who then goes into a frenzied meltdown. The only way to reverse the process is to, well, reverse the process, he's told. Cartman attempts to put his wiener in Butters’ mouth, but Butters’ father catches them in the act and sends his son to a rehabilitation camp.
• Lice Capades: Lice has infested the heads of students at a school in Denver, and to make sure it doesn’t spread, every student in South Park is getting examined. Cartman wants to shame whoever has lice. The episode takes viewers inside the world of lice on Clyde’s head, including one intelligent lice who believes that he and his kind are living on a living, aware organism.
• The Snuke: In this parody of the hit television show 24, a new Muslim student named Bahir is joining the fourth grade class. Cartman, of course, is enraged, and quickly becomes suspicious that the new boy may be a terrorist. Authorities confirm that a nuclear device has been placed inside Hillary Clinton’s body, but only Stan and Kyle are able to decipher the real terrorist's identity.
• Fantastic Easter Special: It’s Easter, and Stan wants to know why the family, and people in general, color eggs. When he asks too many questions, he comes to learn the truth about why the holiday is celebrated as it is, centered around a weird bunny cult.
• D-Yikes!: Mr. Garrison is enraged following a bad date. When he assigns a difficult homework project that tasks his students with penning an essay on The Old Man and the Sea, the boys hire illegal immigrants to do it for them, but they take the assignment a little too literally. Meanwhile, Garrison finds himself drawn to a lesbian and indeed becomes one. He begins hitting on every girl in the local lesbian bar and must eventually fight to keep it open.
• Night of the Living Homeless: The boys rally to eliminate the zombie-esque plague of homeless people invading South Park.

• Le Petit Tourette: Cartman learns that a local boy has Tourette syndrome. He’s amazed at the opportunity to say whatever he wants without getting in trouble. Of course he sees it as his “golden ticket” to speak even more freely than he already does. But little does he know that his “disease” comes with consequences.
• More Crap: Mr. Marsh is severely constipated. He’s prescribed a powerful laxative. When he finally goes, his feces are huge, the largest on record, in fact, which makes him a worldwide celebrity. However, the previous world record holder, Bono, retaliates with a new record-holding pile of excrement, stealing Randy’s thunder. The episode makes fun of the series’ Emmy win.
• Imaginationland Episodes, I, II, and III: Cartman claims he has seen a Leprechaun and makes a wager with Kyle. Strangely, Cartman is proven right; the boys trap it alive but interrupt its mission of warning its home, Imaginationland, about a pending terror attack. But beyond that, Kyle’s real concern is that he will have to uphold his end of the bargain by sucking Cartman’s balls. Ultimately, the boys are taken to Imaginationland, a place where all of the strange things humans have ever thought of live. But just as they arrive, terrorists attack. The boys flee, but Butters is left behind.
• Guitar Queer-O: The boys are enjoying the video game Guitar Hero. Randy Marsh wants to teach them to play the real guitar, but the boys have no interest; they only want to break 100,000 points in the game. Almost immediately after achieving the feat, they are contacted by a talent agency and earn a record contract. Things are looking up, but can they handle fame and fortune and the industry trying to promote Stan, the superior player?
• The List: The girls have ranked the boys from cutest to ugliest, but can the boy at the bottom deal with the blow to his self-esteem?

South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

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.

South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

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 Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

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 Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

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.