Too many fans seem to be blown away

Brilliant and touching

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Simply amazing!! Trey Parker's first attempt at a film would turn out to be one of the most hilarious "non-Kaufman's" Troma has to offer, and quite possibly the funniest film of all time. Not too bad for a first-time director. Now days, everyone pretty much realizes Trey Parker is a genius, and with the massive, never-ending success of South Park, you'd think Cannibal: The Muisical would have, at some point, ended up on television. but I guess there's just something about the word "Troma" that just, I don't know, repels people. Or at least the people who decide what gets played on TV. Anyway, I think it's pretty cool that Troma has the rights to this masterpiece.From what I've seen on The History Channel, The story portrayed in this outlandish musical is a whole lot more authentic than one would think. The musical aspect is practically the only thing about this movie that isn't true, and I'm not even completely sure about that. Cannibal: The Musical is about Alfred Packer, a Utah miner, who is coaxed into leading a gold-mining expedition into Colorado. Not wanting to let down the nice mormon fellows, Alfred leaves out the fact that he has no Idea where Colorado is. Now, an extreme horse-lover, a butcher, a chronic-liar, two mormons, and an eager little gipper would then embark on a comically hopeless journey which could only end with frozen starvation, or cannibalism, with a soundtrack that would become legendary within the Troma universe, as well as any real fan of South Park. Each character is hilarious in his own way, especially Dian Bachar, as the little virgin gipper. That guy is probably funnier than he will ever know. And the one mormon who's always in a good mood, makes the Cannibal: The Musical experience all the more shpadoinkle.It doesn't take long to notice the similarities between Cannibal: the Musical and South Park. In fact, it's the same humor, only, This is better than any single episode of South Park, and that's a fact (my opinion). Trey Parker really makes one wish he had more on-screen roles than this, BASEketball, and Orgazmo. Parker's performance as Alfred Packer is simply priceless, this guy has superb comic timing, and clearly knows what's funny. Native Americans portrayed by Japanese guys being just one example. Someday, hopefully in my lifetime, South Park can wrap up, then maybe Trey Parker will put more time into directing and/or acting. As far as ridiculous B-Horror-comedy/musicals go, Cannibal The Musical beats the hell out of Poultrygeist in every way, without trying nearly as hard. As far as the Troma catalogue goes, there's only a select few that absolutely must be seen by anyone who considers themself any kind of a Troma fan. And this one just might be the king of that mountain. This review was written by someone who hates musicals. 10/10

for all of you who mother's were elephants and fathers were Eskimos, you know already the weird and disturbing musical charm of this wildly funny Troma nightmare.i grew up watching musicals and my parents pushed musicals on us because they thought they were highbrow entertainment. i always preferred the 'B' and 'Z' horror movies, Three Stooges, and cheapo Disney Burbank studio stuff to the lofty pretensions of MGM and Broadway musical shows. i've spent years trying to erase the lyrics of these showtunes from my mind with little success. through no fault of my own i occasionally relive the lyrics to bile like "wouldn't it be loverly" and "if ever i would leave you" chiming in my memory much to my dismay and even worse threat to my sanity.don't get me wrong. i love musicals. in fact musicals are my favorite of the entertainment genres. i just disagree with the current and standard consensus of which musicals are good. i can't stand anything that falls into too much formula with say, the exception of Disney films. in the case of Disney, formula works. in the case of most everything else, formula breeds familiarity and contempt. that holds true for most Broadway and MGM musicals. too much formula and contrivance leads to boring familiarity which leads to mutinous contempt.that's why i like musicals post 'Rocky Horror'. just to survive musicals had to break formula and convention. instead of conventionally square, they often could be daring and willing to take chances. many of them became rather dark, or even violent, like in the case of 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Cannibal;The Musical'.even though 'Cannibal' never appeared on Broadway, it is actually more fresh and inspired than the majority of those productions. even though filmed on a very marginal budget, 'Cannibal' feels very much like legitimate musical theater comedy. so much so that it doubles both successfully in film and as a popular stage play. it also isn't really any more violent than say 'Sweeney Todd' which received Tony awards.i'm no stranger to musicals. my experience goes all the way back to the original B&W musicals by Busby Berkley (who i actually do like)and i have heard many Broadway track recordings even if i haven't seen those plays. and as someone who truly likes musicals, my criticism of mainstay musicals is probably more fair than by someone who doesn't care for musical theater.i love 'Cannibal;The Musical'. it's funny and tuneful and most of all, inspired. i love musicals, although if your average musical authority saw a list of my favorite musicals, they'd probably think i was warped. i mean i have Oingo Boingo's 'Forbidden Zone' on there.

Let's get the inevitable out of the way: the movie looks absolutely horrible. There's a reason most of Trey Parker's work has been in animation. Then again, it's Troma, so we can be a little forgiving. It's not so much the budget as general incompetence in the film-making that's a bit annoying here, but it's still a Trey Parker cannibal Western musical comedy from Troma based loosely on the true story of Alfred Packer.Yes, it's as silly and ludicrous as it sounds, and although it's not quite up there with the best Troma has to offer ("Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead", "The Toxic Avenger", "Tromeo and Juliet", and a less well-liked favorite of mine, "Troma's War"), it's still absolutely demented and crazy throughout, the songs are still good, and the movie has a lot of fun with Western conventions.This is really Trey Parker's movie through and through, it's his excellent performance as Packer which carries the movie, and it's his songs that immediately made me forget about all the jokes which fell flat in the preceding scene. This movie is far from perfect, and I think I laughed a bit harder at "Orgazmo", but this is still one of Troma's more worthwhile movies, and interesting as an example of the work of a very young pre-"South Park" Trey Parker.7/10

Gore, comedy, music, what more could some one ask for? Although this title from one of the South Park creators is more than a little low budget, it is still a good movie. Not meaning that it gives some great insight into Alfred Packer, but that it gives just what it promises, cannibalism and musicals. If you are not accustomed to the humor of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, then this movie may be lost on you, but if you like cheap laughs, then look no further.The trailer for the movie was made before the movie to try and get money for the actual feature. Luckily it was picked up by Troma (makers of the ever popular Toxic Avenger), and the end result is the first feature length movie from Trey Parker. I found the music to be just what I thought it would be, raunchy and unforgettable. The gore is exactly what I expected from a Troma movie, and I'm glad that this movie was shared with me so that I could share it with everyone that I know.