South Park Streaming Wars release date

The Paramount+ film sees Trey Parker and Matt Stone cook up a weed-farming metaphor for the ongoing streaming wars, but its lack of self-referentiality is a ...

There’s a late twist that opens the door for South Park: The Streaming Wars to tackle the issue of medical procedures for young trans kids. Yet on the basis of this newest effort, it appears that they’re really just glorified two-part episodes of the show, neither as sharp nor as daring as their half-hour counterparts—a state of affairs that may prove South Park: The Streaming Wars’ point, but doesn’t make for much in the way of memorable humor. Speaking of stupid, South Park: The Streaming Wars has an additional plot thread involving, of course, Cartman, who’s still fuming at his mother for quitting her job (at his request) and forcing them to move into an abandoned hot dog stand. Okay, perhaps the second of those isn’t really an emergency, but it’s nonetheless the jokey subject of South Park: The Streaming Wars, a super-sized chapter of Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s long-running animation franchise that turns out to be funniest when it’s dumbest, and weakest when it leans into its lunatic satire. Before long, the kids are making a mint working for all the streaming services that crop up in the vicinity—including those owned by Randy and, more crucially, by Mr. Cussler, a wealthy land baron whose goal is to build a streaming service as big as “the Amazon…River.” Steve and Randy’s conflict is exacerbated by South Park’s scarcity of water, since a Water Commissioner from Colorado’s Division of Water Services—looking like a shady gray-suited government official beamed in from Chinatown—soon arrives to investigate the region’s problem, and proposes a brilliant scheme to the weed growers: sell the excess water from their supplies to customers, thereby creating “streaming services.” The catch is that they have to prove that their water supplies actually reach the Denver reservoir on a daily basis, thereby compelling Steve to hire Stan and Tolkien to build toy boats that can float down the river to the reservoir.