Review by Cineanalyst

Another year, another South Park COVID-related extended episode, "South ParQ: Vaccination Special," following up on the prior "Pandemic Special." Right from that title, there's a sense of greater optimism with vaccinations, albeit with the "Q" indicating lingering political problems in the America that Trey Parker, Matt Stone and company satirize. The gags here over teachers and the masses being jealous of the elderly's being vaccinated and Qanon conspiracy-theory stupidity are hilarious, if repetitive. The post-presidency of Mr. Garrison is pretty funny early on, at least, too, as the Colorado town's residents gawk with annoyance at him for the destruction his administration wrought. If you don't know who he's a stand-in for, you might've been living under a rock the past four years, let alone not be familiar with the "South Park" TV series.

The bro-ships, or whatever, between the four perennial schoolboys wasn't as amusing. It doesn't live up to the outrageousness of Randy and Mickey Mouse copulating with a bat and pangolin in the "Pandemic Special." And, the hand-of-the-animator reflexivity that is made out of fulfilling the Qanon nonsense is rather too derivative in a computer-animated fashion of "Duck Amuck" (1953). Still, hit-and-miss as it is, "South Park" may as usual be counted on for a few laughs.