Comwayon
A Disappointing Continuation
Doomtomylo
a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.
Janae Milner
Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de)
The 1992 short film "The Spirit of Christmas" is basically a South Park episode (with a slightly different animation style) packed into 4 minutes. The four boys accidentally create an evil snowman with tentacles who promptly kills one of them, then transforms into Santa and when the kids ask Santa for help, he kills the second. So the kids go see Jesus. And luckily, Jesus is not the evil snowman in disguise, but kills the villain.This was the first time Trey Parker and Matt Stone entered the very long-living world of South Park. The show is at its 18th season now already and this short film here was made 5 years before everything started (and 7 years before the movie). The characters have quite a few differences compared to what they were in another short film by Parker/Stone also called "The Spirit of Christmas" from 1995 and the show later one. Kenny gets actually killed here, a running gag for a very long time in the show, but he has Cartman's outfit and the clothes are different in general. Also, you can see the mouth of the character that looks like Kenny (but isn't). What is not different is the moral lesson at the end told by one of the boys. This idea was also taken up for the show and appears at the end of almost every episode.
SubZeroMK
This is the very first, early draft of what would become 'South Park'. This is the work of film students in their last year of university/college, and frankly, I like this little short. Why? because it's such a classic, I never even knew about this until 10 minutes ago.Trey and Matt soon would discover that this little short film will have a sequel to it, in which that will spawn them a TV show, two years later. It's bad quality, but it's 1992, so don't complain. But if you want to be reminded of your child-hood memories, then watch this. A nice 10/10 for originality. You think it starts out as your regular Christmas special or educational Christmas cartoon short, but as soon they put the magic hat on the snowman, everything goes nuts, and you see the true nature of what South Park is today. Again, 10/10 for originality.
gangstahippie
Rated NR(would be Rated R for Language and Some Violence) Most of us know the animated television show South Park which started in 1997 and is still going on.The show that parodies today's issues.Well South Park first started with two animated short films about Christmas.Back in 1992 when South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone were in college together they made a short film for film class called The Spirit Of Christmas.It is also known as Jesus Vs Frosty.You can find this and the other Spirit Of Christmas short film on youtube.There are some big differences between this and the TV series.First of all the two boys who are Stan and Kyle are not named and look a bit different.Second Cartman is called Kenny in this short and the Kenny from the series is not named.*MINOR SPOILERS HERE*Both Kenny(aka Cartman) and the Kenny from the series get killed.*END OF SPOILERS*.The short is four minutes long and has a basic plot.The four South Park kids make a snowman and put a magic hat on the snowman.However the snowman turns evil and kills one of the boys.He then pretends to be Santa Claus and kills another boy.Now they must stop him by asking a favor from Jesus.Jesus saves the day.The 1995 Spirit Of Christmas short is better than this one but this one is still fairly funny and good.Bad quality though.Runtime:4min 9/10
rhyl_donnelly
This is pretty funny considering it looks and sounds terrible. It's really interesting to see how Trey Parker and Matt Stone started out with South Park, and they created a very demented and vulgar short film. Within this short, we see a switch of characters: the fat kid, better known as Cartman on the TV series, is named Kenny and is the first to get killed. The hood-wearing kid, who is known as Kenny on the TV series, is the second killed and is not given a name. And the other two (Stan and Kyle) also remain nameless in this short. You'll never look at snowmen wearing top hats the same ever again.
