Their chemistry is so strong as well as their delivery, it's hard to believe they didn't write this piece themselves. They shined all throughout.
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I was watching this last night and was thinking the same thing!
shareThat's weird, I thought the exact same thing. They MUST have had some part of the writing, because the movie feels like it's written by them. All the humor is right out of South Park.
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"Roads? Where we're going we don't need... roads."
The humor is quite slapstick in places, which kind of goes against the writing of South Park. But I agree, they must of had SOME creative input surely?
shareThey did a lot of rewriting to make it more their style, yes, as well as a lot of improv. You can tell what's Zucker's (the slapstick stuff you mentioned), and what's theirs...
"What? Do you wanna just sit around and be wrong?" - Liz Lemon
Yup. It marries well, at least to me. I like airplane movies and I liked the first decade or so of south park - this throws them together.
And, I was watching it thinking about it the other way, there is no way everything in there was Zucker, some of it just doesn't fit his style at all.
Hm, what do you have in mind for being "theirs"? Curious, because Zucker can do just as well at funny dialogue (like the Jive sequence in Airplane) as he can at observational humor and slapstick.
shareJust a big portion of it feels like the early days of south park. They obviously had some input/adlib - it's not dialogue, it's the type of jokes in certain spots.
shareWell it is was written by one of the guys who made Kentucky Fried Movie, Airplane, The Naked Gun, Hot Shots etc... so it's pretty hard for Matt and Trey to not have been influenced somehow by the Zucker/Abraham Trio.
Plus they may not have written it in the scripts, but actors do ad-lib and change lines around in scenes all the time. Directors often tell their actors to play it the way it's written, then do another take the way the actors think might work better... so Parker and Stone would have had a lot of creativity on set to make scenes funnier.
This is the only work involving Trey Parker and Matt Stone that was neither written, directed, nor produced by them, although director, co-writer and co-producer David Zucker himself has stated that Parker and Stone contributed innumerable suggestions for the film, most of which were used.