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40. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (1999)
By IFC
on 06/25/2009
The late, great Don "Thunder Throat" LaFontaine, king of the voiceover, commands as this teaser begins (and as the camera slowly zooms into the screen of a fancy home computer, circa 1999): "As we near the millennium, the tools for visual effects and animation are evolving at an exponential rate..." A laser-guided, 3-D animatic is being rendered in close-up before our eyes, and we're told that Paramount has enlisted the help of the world's top animators, with a budget of over $630 million, to bring us "the most advanced animation ever seen by the human eye."
Cue the punchline: the computer matrix system has formed the eye of a defiantly lo-fi Eric Cartman -- by that time as iconic an animated character as Bart Simpson -- goose-stepping on an empty black background. "I will do the German dance for you," he sings in his nasally whine, "it's fun and gay and tra-la-la." Irreverent as ever, the "South Park" boys pull another fast one on their audience, making us laugh by holding a mirror up to our own lemming mentality for bigger, faster, sleeker blockbuster bombast. --Aaron Hillis
I guess you guys haven't seen the trailer for The Hughes Bros.'s Dead Presidents, huh? What about Forest Gump? I think those are the 2 greatest of all time. Gump is better than the movie. And Dead Prez is the best ever.
Oh... what about the SW Ep 1 teaser? Maybe you should call this the best film trailers on YouTube! LOL. Dead Prez is probably too hard for you to locate.
I think The Dark Knight, Iron Man, and 300 should be included!
Clerks? No love for the Clerks trailer? Sigh.
Honorable mention for the Grindhouse fake trailers? "Don't" was brilliant.
Great list, by the way. Thanks for including 'Man Who Wasn't There'
Seriously? We have to click 50 times just to get the damn list? No thanks.
Like clicking 50 times is soooo hard, right? But you guys forgot about There Will Be Blood!!
50 PAGES?!!! Get back to work researching how to post an article. No Digg for you.
50 PAGES?!!! Get back to work researching how to post an article. No Digg for you.
GREAT article and flawless pick for #1. I actually did a lil piece on that trailer at our own movie blog, so I'm elated to see as your top pick. Yay trailers!