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Team America: World Police (2004)
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Reviews Counted:186
Fresh:145
Rotten:41
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: Team America will either offend you or leave you in stitches. It'll probably do both.
Rated: 15 [See Full Rating] graphic, crude and sexual humor, violent images and strong language; all involving puppets
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:14-01-2005
Synopsis: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the masterminds behind SOUTH PARK, turn their attention to marionettes and politics in the riotous spoof TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE. Combining the puppetry of the... Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the masterminds behind SOUTH PARK, turn their attention to marionettes and politics in the riotous spoof TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE. Combining the puppetry of the mid-1960s series THUNDERBIRDS with action/disaster flicks produced by Jerry Bruckheimer (TOP GUN, ARMAGEDDON, PEARL HARBOR), Parker and Stone tell the story of a small group of heroic figures who span the globe protecting democracy and freedom against terrorism. Along the way, they destroy such famous international landmarks as the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Sphinx in Egypt, and the Panama Canal. All the while they are developing close relationships that lead to love, jealousy, and betrayal. Their primary mission is to stop North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's peace conference, which is a ruse to allow him to attack the rest of the world with his weapons of mass destruction. Team America must also take on F.A.G., the Film Actors Guild, which is supporting the peace conference, including such participants as Alec Baldwin, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, George Clooney, and other actors who have spoken out against the war in Iraq (but did not agree to be spoofed in the film). Parker and Stone reserve a special message for FAHRENHEIT 9/11 director Michael Moore, and even former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix shows up. Among the very funny--and very dirty--songs in the film are "Everyone Has AIDS" (from the Broadway musical LEASE), "Only a Woman" (about homosexuality), and "I'm So Ronery" (Kim Jong Il's soaring solo). Despite having no actual humans in it, the movie earns its R rating with lots of blood, very adult language, and a steamy puppet sex scene. [More]
Starring: Matt Stone, Trey Parker, Kristen Miller, Daran Norris
Starring: Matt Stone, Trey Parker, Kristen Miller, Daran Norris, Maurice LaMarche
Director: Trey Parker
Director: Trey Parker
Screenwriter: Matt Stone, Trey Parker, Pam Brady
Producer: Trey Parker, Scott Rudin, Matt Stone, Pam Brady
Composer: Harry Gregson-Williams
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Reviews for Team America: World Police
[Parker and Stone's] merciless mockery of Hollywood action clichés, particularly those found in Jerry Bruckheimer’s productions, couldn’t be more accurate.
What marks Parker and Stone as satirists rather than shock jocks is their perceptive analysis of the world's craziness.
The result seems almost as hypocritical as many of the movie's targets, which ultimately defeats the movie's intentions.
The marionettes run interference with our Hollywood-formula comfort zones -- forcing a fresh look at the hateful stupidity we take for granted every weekend at the multiplex.
Surprisingly good natured given its take-no-prisoners lampooning of ethnic and cultural stereotypes, the war in Iraq, homosexuality, AIDS... not to mention Hollywood's finest.
Screamingly, achingly funny. It's the kind of movie that repeatedly hits a comic high note and holds it for a sustained period.
Who knew that marionettes could be so tender, crude and aggressive in the bedroom?
I never imagined that the current geopolitical scenario could be boiled down so succinctly, or cleverly, into a five minute speech about "P*ssies", "D*cks", and "A**holes".
Parker and Stone reach beyond easy sendup of foreign relations, acknowledging xenophobia’s longstanding stronghold in popular entertainment.
As quickly as Parker and Stone win us over with their raunchy wartime send-up, they let victory slip away with one snide, silly, gross scene after another.
Like a fantasy project developed by a dirty-minded child, and we can all share in the adolescent stupidity and irresponsibility of it. It's a blast.
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