Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s love affair with musicals predates South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut and Team America: World Police. It began with 1996’s remarkably confident student film Cannibal! The Musical, a comically exaggerated account of the trial of Alferd Packer, a hapless accused cannibal. Though nothing in the movie lives up to its frantic opening scenea hilariously violent re-enactment of Packer’s alleged crimesthe film finds time for several incongruously chipper parodies of Oklahoma!-styled pomp, including “Let’s Build a Snowman,” a song sung in spite of gruesome frostbite. Cannibal! screens tonight at 11:50 p.m. at the Times Cinema.
Cannibal!
Tonight @ the Times Cinema, 11:50 p.m.
