Team America: World Police Team America: World Police
2004 Directed by Trey Parker
Synopsis
Putting the "F" back in Freedom.
Team America World Police follows an international police force dedicated to maintaining global stability. Learning that dictator Kim Jong il is out to destroy the world, the team recruits Broadway star Gary Johnston to go undercover. With the help of Team America, Gary manages to uncover the plan to destroy the world. Will Team America be able to save it in time?It stars… Samuel L Jackson, Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, Michael Moore, Helen Hunt, Matt Damon, Susan Sarandon, George Clooney, Danny Glover, Ethan Hawke, Alec Baldwin… or does it?
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Now THIS is the ultimate 2am comedy movie. Team America is incredibly funny. It's also incredibly stupid. Its about puppets who save the world from terrorists for starters. If that's not enough to sell you, the fact that its from the minds behind South Park should also be another selling point. Trey and Matt bring their classic slapstick and satirical humor to low brow levels. Team America is an incredibly vile, violent, wacky, and controversial movie that is hard to watch without a smile despite it being so fucking dumb.
It's one of those movies that works best late at night when you are tired beyond belief and everything that shouldn't be funny, becomes funny. It's also a great hangout…
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When I first heard about Team America: World Police I thought it seemed a cute idea: the guys behind South Park making a satirical action filled comedy using marionettes. The film came out and I heard decent things about it, but not enough to make sure to catch it at my local cinema. A couple of years went by and it popped up on TV, I watched it, thought it was pretty good and that was that. Until a few weeks ago when I gave Team America a re-watch and was suddenly struck with the opinion that it is easily one of the best comedy films of the last decade.
It has everything from outrageous and utterly puerile humour, up…
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What a delight this film is. It balances satire with complexly difficult filmmaking. The use of puppets is technically amazing while at the same time calling attention to the cheesy nature of certain cliche action movie scenes. This is Hot Fuzz with puppets - sending up the action movie genre while paying homage to it at the same time.
A movie like The Host (Bong Joon-ho, not Stephenie Meyer) was a discreet satire of American colonialism and militarism. The American military at the beginning of the film are at fault for releasing something into the water supply, and they don't care to do anything about it. The rest of the film, the "creature" is a result of the American presence…
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Stupid humour, made by intelligent people.
A quote fest. There are so many memorable scenes, and so many films lampooned. If you don't laugh at all during this then there is just no hope for you.
Now suck my cock.
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Stupid humour, made by intelligent people.
A quote fest. There are so many memorable scenes, and so many films lampooned. If you don't laugh at all during this then there is just no hope for you.
Now suck my cock.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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The Pearl Harbor Movie Sucked song should be re-written about this film. Terrible.
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guy in new york made me watch this movie on his iPod
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puppets
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As with most of their work, "Team America: World Police" shows that Trey Parker & Matt Stone are great at taking outrageous and offensive humor and finding way to turn it into humorous and insightful political commentary. But, like "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut" I find their problem is making a feature film out of such humor. Like their last film, "Team America" feels way too long- that's not a good quality for a film that's only about 90 minutes. Granted, the film is still quite funny throughout, with some fantastic one liners, but I think these two very funny men are much more talented while writing for TV (despite how wildly inconsistent "South Park" has been lately) or for the stage ("The Book of Mormon", for those who have not seen it, is brilliant).
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As hilarious and relevant as ever.
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What a delight this film is. It balances satire with complexly difficult filmmaking. The use of puppets is technically amazing while at the same time calling attention to the cheesy nature of certain cliche action movie scenes. This is Hot Fuzz with puppets - sending up the action movie genre while paying homage to it at the same time.
A movie like The Host (Bong Joon-ho, not Stephenie Meyer) was a discreet satire of American colonialism and militarism. The American military at the beginning of the film are at fault for releasing something into the water supply, and they don't care to do anything about it. The rest of the film, the "creature" is a result of the American presence…
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Exceptional movie. It's not a surprise from Matt Stone & Trey Parker.
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Now THIS is the ultimate 2am comedy movie. Team America is incredibly funny. It's also incredibly stupid. Its about puppets who save the world from terrorists for starters. If that's not enough to sell you, the fact that its from the minds behind South Park should also be another selling point. Trey and Matt bring their classic slapstick and satirical humor to low brow levels. Team America is an incredibly vile, violent, wacky, and controversial movie that is hard to watch without a smile despite it being so fucking dumb.
It's one of those movies that works best late at night when you are tired beyond belief and everything that shouldn't be funny, becomes funny. It's also a great hangout…
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I thought with the current worldwide political climate I fancied re-visiting this film.
Anyway, Trey Parker should be commended for actually pulling this off with all the ideas and the production design. Team America is very easy to watch and it is entertaining to a certain degree but it is vastly overrated at the same time. It never helped when EVERYONE was quoting it endlessly with there impressions. It's fun but no a patch on South Park the movie.
On a more personal note, I miss Kim Jong Il. At least we knew where he stood!