10 Best Animated Film Musical Numbers
8. Up There South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut (Comedy Central Films) http://youtu.be/X13Kb_DktHg This number is practically admissible evidence of Matt Stone and Trey Parkers genius. With Up There, in less than two minutes, they make you care on a deep human level about Satan. Thats right; they make you care about Satan. Sub-textually there are powerful, resonating sentiments at play in Up There. Even though to you and I the idea that Satan might harbour secret desires to experience all the beauty in our world seems ridiculous, the character of Satan presented here in this stricken lament doesnt think so. Despite the silliness of the textual content, Up There feels like a sincere expression of hope from a complex, conflicted character with a genuine desire to change but an inability to escape from his own metaphorical (and literal) hell. And since humans a species are generally empathic beings its all but impossible not to get behind him, connotations of evil or no.