Mixed Reviews: Shpadoinkle: The Making of Cannibal: The Musical

By Andy Young
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/mixed_reviews_shpadoinkle_the_making_of_cannibal_the_musical_20120112/
Right off the bat, I want to say that Jason McHugh's Shpadoinkle: The Making of Cannibal: The Musical is the best low-budget moviemaking journal I’ve read since Robert Rodriguez's Rebel without a Crew, and its definitely a book I wish had existed when I made my own low-budget feature film (which was actually heavily inspired by Cannibal! The Musical). McHugh, a producer/actor on the cult classic Cannibal! The Musical, takes readers through a personal journey that spans his early interest in movies, his experience at film school and how he came to befriend UC-Boulder classmates Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who would later go on to create Orgazmo, Team America: World Police, The Book of Mormon and, of course, "South Park." But before any of that, the three of them were just a bunch of young, like-minded film geeks looking for the next step in their careers.