Team America - World Police (Special Collector's Full Screen Edition)
Starring:Phil Hendrie, Angie Jaree, John D. Kim, Maurice LaMarche, Josiah D. Lee, Chelsea Marguerite, Masasa, David Michie, Kristen Miller, Daran Norris, Mike J. Regan, Elle Russ, Jeremy Shada, Matt Stone, Fred Tatasciore, Josema Yuste
Studio: Paramount
Product Type: DVD
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com
An elite U.S. counter-terrorism squad loses a member while decimating half of Paris in the reckless pursuit of Middle Eastern maniacs; a Broadway actor with a traumatic childhood secret is naturally hired to replace him. Oh--and they're all marionettes. South Park maestros Trey Parker and Matt Stone (along with co-writer Pam Brady) came up with this shameless satire of pea-brained Hollywood action flicks and even smaller-minded global politics, so don't expect subtlety or even a hint of good taste. Team America is soon on the trail of North Korea's evil Kim Jong Il, who treats us to a tender song about his loneliness before ensnaring Alec Baldwin and the rest of the oblivious Film Actors Guild (F.A.G. for short) in a plot to blow up every major city on the planet. Just as the mindless squad cheerfully demolishes everything in sight, so do director Parker and company. Throwing punches Left, Right, and in-between, the movie's politics leave no turn un-stoned; there's even time to bludgeon the musical Rent. It's offensive, irresponsible comic anarchy seemingly made by sniggering little boys. Painfully funny sniggering little boys.--Steve Wiecking
Description
In TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE, a group of marionette puppets form Team America, an international police force dedicated to maintaining global stability. Discovering that a power hungry dictator, Kim Jong II, plans to destroy the world and is brokering weapons of mass destruction to terrorists, the team enlists the undercover help of Broadway star Gary Johnston and embarks on a harrowing mission to save the world. Opposed to this, is the Film Actors' Guild, or F.A.G., whose members include puppets representing actors Alec Baldwin, Tim Robbins, Matt Damon, Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. In spite of the lack of support they receive, the team sticks to their plan of saving the world and putting an end to terrorism.
Average customer rating:
- I laughed so hard I was exhausted...THIS IS NOT FOR CHILDREN!!!!!
- Team America: World Police
- Not near as funny as South Park
- Team America World Police
- This film will be remembered when many others are forgotten
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Team America: World Police - Unrated (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition)
Starring: Phil Hendrie , Angie Jaree , John D. Kim , Maurice LaMarche , and Josiah D. Lee
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ASIN: B0007Y08IS
Release Date: 2005-05-17 |
Amazon.com
An elite U.S. counter-terrorism squad loses a member while decimating half of Paris in the reckless pursuit of Middle Eastern maniacs; a Broadway actor with a traumatic childhood secret is naturally hired to replace him. Oh--and they're all marionettes. South Park maestros Trey Parker and Matt Stone (along with co-writer Pam Brady) came up with this shameless satire of pea-brained Hollywood action flicks and even smaller-minded global politics, so don't expect subtlety or even a hint of good taste. Team America is soon on the trail of North Korea's evil Kim Jong Il, who treats us to a tender song about his loneliness before ensnaring Alec Baldwin and the rest of the oblivious Film Actors Guild (F.A.G. for short) in a plot to blow up every major city on the planet. Just as the mindless squad cheerfully demolishes everything in sight, so do director Parker and company. Throwing punches Left, Right, and in-between, the movie's politics leave no turn un-stoned; there's even time to bludgeon the musical Rent. It's offensive, irresponsible comic anarchy seemingly made by sniggering little boys. Painfully funny sniggering little boys.--Steve Wiecking
Description
In TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE, a group of marionette puppets form Team America, an international police force dedicated to maintaining global stability. Discovering that a power hungry dictator, Kim Jong II, plans to destroy the world and is brokering weapons of mass destruction to terrorists, the team enlists the undercover help of Broadway star Gary Johnston and embarks on a harrowing mission to save the world. Opposed to this, is the Film Actors' Guild, or F.A.G., whose members include puppets representing actors Alec Baldwin, Tim Robbins, Matt Damon, Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. In spite of the lack of support they receive, the team sticks to their plan of saving the world and putting an end to terrorism.
Customer Reviews:
I laughed so hard I was exhausted...THIS IS NOT FOR CHILDREN!!!!!.......2007-06-29
Offensive and funny in the way that puppets expressing emotions, engaging in violence, having sex without sanction of sacraments and Church, and hurling obscenities can only be. I could not stop laughing the entire time.
I'm somewhere to the right of Vlad the Impaler, so the old right-bashing left-bashing arguments so beloved of South Park Republicans (mostly libertarians) don't carry much truck with me. Rightist hypocrisy and false braggadocio are on full display here, along with over-the-top chuckle-headed nationalism an inch deep and an ocean wide filled with the tears of sentiment and absent boarders of reason. On the flip side, self-righteous Hollywood poltroons are given their full display, and no gasbag disappoints. What is more remarkable is how little the caricature of the puppets differs from the actual spew of their objects. Perhaps that is funniest of all.
This film makes full use of the liberty of comedy, employing and invoking the ancient rights of jesters everywhere to have no sacred cows. If you think of the film seriously, there is absolutely no way you can not be offended. If you enter into the Rabelaisian world of suspension of disbelief and watch the puppets become the morality play within the interior of the melodrama becomes evident. The admonition "That which stimulates our senses but at the same time does not elevate our morals is pernicious" is defeated by the exquisite combination of Rabelais, Satire, Machiavelli, and explosive plasticine. We are better for the distractions of the jesters: let them play on.
Team America: World Police.......2007-05-22
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, however, it's not suitable for children. The sex scene is outrageous! I found North Korea's Kim Jong-il's dialog to be insanely funny! If you have a funny bone, you will like this puppet movie. Definitely a cult movie with hopefully more episodes to follow. Highly Recommended.
Not near as funny as South Park.......2007-05-15
And the politics suddenly go righter-than-right (but still well to the left of Attila the Hun). I thought I'd like it a lot more than I did. There are some funny moments throughout, the sex scene, the puking scene, the Team America Theme Song scene. The plot is not exactly suspenseful, if you say it's a comedy and doesn't need a plot, the comedy is pretty sparse. For the whole film, you're waiting for something really funny to happen, but it never does. Some people complain about 'perceived political content' well hello, it is a comedy about politics, much more so than say, Austin Powers or even Maxwell Smart (remember him?) That would be fine, regardless of what tack it took, if it was a really funny film, but to me it was a wasted opportunity. I'd like to laugh at this film. But I can only laugh NEAR it, it seems.
Team America World Police .......2007-05-03
Team America is a good movie. It helps prople believe that there are heros, and vilians in the world ,but mostly heros hopfully.I highly recommend this book.
By:
Brittany Lockman
This film will be remembered when many others are forgotten.......2007-04-16
Okay. There are over 500 reviews on this and I hardly intend to make much of an impact. So let's keep things simple.
1. Juvenile, gross-out humor. Yes. Utterly and shamelessly. If you have no tolerance for watching a marionette puppet puke gallons of yellowish bile on the screen, then avoid this film. I tried my hardest to hit the fast-forward button on my remote, but I was laughing so hard I couldn't see.
2. Politically incorrect. Yes, in droves. Got a sacred cow? Prepare to watch it turned into a Big Mac before your very eyes. Personally, I found it very refreshing.
3. Inappropriate for children. Some might say inappropriate for adults.
There. That's out of the way. So why did they make it? If any of you recall, Jim Henson, when asked how he became such a success with puppets, replied that he and Frank Oz realized that some of the world's worst, stupid humor was actually very funny if it was delivered by a puppet. Puppets brilliantly facilitate the chasm needed to create a comic character; you have to care about the character, but you can't care too much or a comic character becomes a tragic character. So...
...what do you think happens when most people watch a highly acrobatic pair of naked people performing sex acts? It's pretty painful to watch. Now what happens when you watch TWO PUPPETS having acrobatic sex? It's a RIOT! See, puppets aren't supposed to have sex. They're supposed to say cute things and entertain little kids, not boink like porn stars.
Bottom line: either you "get" the humor or you don't. I can easily see how many people would be disappointed by the film, but it was very groundbreaking in its own way. To not find it funny is not terribly surprising, but to dislike it on the grounds, as many 1-star reviews claim, that it is a right-wing propaganda film has got to be far more preposterous than any absurdity that has made Parker and Stone two of the youngest and most successful comic talents in the past 40 years.
Average customer rating:
- I laughed so hard I was exhausted...THIS IS NOT FOR CHILDREN!!!!!
- Team America: World Police
- Not near as funny as South Park
- Team America World Police
- This film will be remembered when many others are forgotten
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Team America - World Police (Special Collector's Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Phil Hendrie , Angie Jaree , John D. Kim , Maurice LaMarche , and Josiah D. Lee
Manufacturer: Paramount
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ASIN: B0007Y08I8
Release Date: 2005-05-17 |
Amazon.com
An elite U.S. counter-terrorism squad loses a member while decimating half of Paris in the reckless pursuit of Middle Eastern maniacs; a Broadway actor with a traumatic childhood secret is naturally hired to replace him. Oh--and they're all marionettes. South Park maestros Trey Parker and Matt Stone (along with co-writer Pam Brady) came up with this shameless satire of pea-brained Hollywood action flicks and even smaller-minded global politics, so don't expect subtlety or even a hint of good taste. Team America is soon on the trail of North Korea's evil Kim Jong Il, who treats us to a tender song about his loneliness before ensnaring Alec Baldwin and the rest of the oblivious Film Actors Guild (F.A.G. for short) in a plot to blow up every major city on the planet. Just as the mindless squad cheerfully demolishes everything in sight, so do director Parker and company. Throwing punches Left, Right, and in-between, the movie's politics leave no turn un-stoned; there's even time to bludgeon the musical Rent. It's offensive, irresponsible comic anarchy seemingly made by sniggering little boys. Painfully funny sniggering little boys.--Steve Wiecking
Description
In TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE, a group of marionette puppets form Team America, an international police force dedicated to maintaining global stability. Discovering that a power hungry dictator, Kim Jong II, plans to destroy the world and is brokering weapons of mass destruction to terrorists, the team enlists the undercover help of Broadway star Gary Johnston and embarks on a harrowing mission to save the world. Opposed to this, is the Film Actors' Guild, or F.A.G., whose members include puppets representing actors Alec Baldwin, Tim Robbins, Matt Damon, Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. In spite of the lack of support they receive, the team sticks to their plan of saving the world and putting an end to terrorism.
Customer Reviews:
I laughed so hard I was exhausted...THIS IS NOT FOR CHILDREN!!!!!.......2007-06-29
Offensive and funny in the way that puppets expressing emotions, engaging in violence, having sex without sanction of sacraments and Church, and hurling obscenities can only be. I could not stop laughing the entire time.
I'm somewhere to the right of Vlad the Impaler, so the old right-bashing left-bashing arguments so beloved of South Park Republicans (mostly libertarians) don't carry much truck with me. Rightist hypocrisy and false braggadocio are on full display here, along with over-the-top chuckle-headed nationalism an inch deep and an ocean wide filled with the tears of sentiment and absent boarders of reason. On the flip side, self-righteous Hollywood poltroons are given their full display, and no gasbag disappoints. What is more remarkable is how little the caricature of the puppets differs from the actual spew of their objects. Perhaps that is funniest of all.
This film makes full use of the liberty of comedy, employing and invoking the ancient rights of jesters everywhere to have no sacred cows. If you think of the film seriously, there is absolutely no way you can not be offended. If you enter into the Rabelaisian world of suspension of disbelief and watch the puppets become the morality play within the interior of the melodrama becomes evident. The admonition "That which stimulates our senses but at the same time does not elevate our morals is pernicious" is defeated by the exquisite combination of Rabelais, Satire, Machiavelli, and explosive plasticine. We are better for the distractions of the jesters: let them play on.
Team America: World Police.......2007-05-22
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, however, it's not suitable for children. The sex scene is outrageous! I found North Korea's Kim Jong-il's dialog to be insanely funny! If you have a funny bone, you will like this puppet movie. Definitely a cult movie with hopefully more episodes to follow. Highly Recommended.
Not near as funny as South Park.......2007-05-15
And the politics suddenly go righter-than-right (but still well to the left of Attila the Hun). I thought I'd like it a lot more than I did. There are some funny moments throughout, the sex scene, the puking scene, the Team America Theme Song scene. The plot is not exactly suspenseful, if you say it's a comedy and doesn't need a plot, the comedy is pretty sparse. For the whole film, you're waiting for something really funny to happen, but it never does. Some people complain about 'perceived political content' well hello, it is a comedy about politics, much more so than say, Austin Powers or even Maxwell Smart (remember him?) That would be fine, regardless of what tack it took, if it was a really funny film, but to me it was a wasted opportunity. I'd like to laugh at this film. But I can only laugh NEAR it, it seems.
Team America World Police .......2007-05-03
Team America is a good movie. It helps prople believe that there are heros, and vilians in the world ,but mostly heros hopfully.I highly recommend this book.
By:
Brittany Lockman
This film will be remembered when many others are forgotten.......2007-04-16
Okay. There are over 500 reviews on this and I hardly intend to make much of an impact. So let's keep things simple.
1. Juvenile, gross-out humor. Yes. Utterly and shamelessly. If you have no tolerance for watching a marionette puppet puke gallons of yellowish bile on the screen, then avoid this film. I tried my hardest to hit the fast-forward button on my remote, but I was laughing so hard I couldn't see.
2. Politically incorrect. Yes, in droves. Got a sacred cow? Prepare to watch it turned into a Big Mac before your very eyes. Personally, I found it very refreshing.
3. Inappropriate for children. Some might say inappropriate for adults.
There. That's out of the way. So why did they make it? If any of you recall, Jim Henson, when asked how he became such a success with puppets, replied that he and Frank Oz realized that some of the world's worst, stupid humor was actually very funny if it was delivered by a puppet. Puppets brilliantly facilitate the chasm needed to create a comic character; you have to care about the character, but you can't care too much or a comic character becomes a tragic character. So...
...what do you think happens when most people watch a highly acrobatic pair of naked people performing sex acts? It's pretty painful to watch. Now what happens when you watch TWO PUPPETS having acrobatic sex? It's a RIOT! See, puppets aren't supposed to have sex. They're supposed to say cute things and entertain little kids, not boink like porn stars.
Bottom line: either you "get" the humor or you don't. I can easily see how many people would be disappointed by the film, but it was very groundbreaking in its own way. To not find it funny is not terribly surprising, but to dislike it on the grounds, as many 1-star reviews claim, that it is a right-wing propaganda film has got to be far more preposterous than any absurdity that has made Parker and Stone two of the youngest and most successful comic talents in the past 40 years.
Average customer rating:
- I laughed so hard I was exhausted...THIS IS NOT FOR CHILDREN!!!!!
- Team America: World Police
- Not near as funny as South Park
- Team America World Police
- This film will be remembered when many others are forgotten
|
Team America - World Police (Special Collector's Full Screen Edition)
Starring: Phil Hendrie , Angie Jaree , John D. Kim , Maurice LaMarche , and Josiah D. Lee
Manufacturer: Paramount
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ASIN: B0007Y08II
Release Date: 2005-05-17 |
Amazon.com
An elite U.S. counter-terrorism squad loses a member while decimating half of Paris in the reckless pursuit of Middle Eastern maniacs; a Broadway actor with a traumatic childhood secret is naturally hired to replace him. Oh--and they're all marionettes. South Park maestros Trey Parker and Matt Stone (along with co-writer Pam Brady) came up with this shameless satire of pea-brained Hollywood action flicks and even smaller-minded global politics, so don't expect subtlety or even a hint of good taste. Team America is soon on the trail of North Korea's evil Kim Jong Il, who treats us to a tender song about his loneliness before ensnaring Alec Baldwin and the rest of the oblivious Film Actors Guild (F.A.G. for short) in a plot to blow up every major city on the planet. Just as the mindless squad cheerfully demolishes everything in sight, so do director Parker and company. Throwing punches Left, Right, and in-between, the movie's politics leave no turn un-stoned; there's even time to bludgeon the musical Rent. It's offensive, irresponsible comic anarchy seemingly made by sniggering little boys. Painfully funny sniggering little boys.--Steve Wiecking
Description
In TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE, a group of marionette puppets form Team America, an international police force dedicated to maintaining global stability. Discovering that a power hungry dictator, Kim Jong II, plans to destroy the world and is brokering weapons of mass destruction to terrorists, the team enlists the undercover help of Broadway star Gary Johnston and embarks on a harrowing mission to save the world. Opposed to this, is the Film Actors' Guild, or F.A.G., whose members include puppets representing actors Alec Baldwin, Tim Robbins, Matt Damon, Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. In spite of the lack of support they receive, the team sticks to their plan of saving the world and putting an end to terrorism.
Customer Reviews:
I laughed so hard I was exhausted...THIS IS NOT FOR CHILDREN!!!!!.......2007-06-29
Offensive and funny in the way that puppets expressing emotions, engaging in violence, having sex without sanction of sacraments and Church, and hurling obscenities can only be. I could not stop laughing the entire time.
I'm somewhere to the right of Vlad the Impaler, so the old right-bashing left-bashing arguments so beloved of South Park Republicans (mostly libertarians) don't carry much truck with me. Rightist hypocrisy and false braggadocio are on full display here, along with over-the-top chuckle-headed nationalism an inch deep and an ocean wide filled with the tears of sentiment and absent boarders of reason. On the flip side, self-righteous Hollywood poltroons are given their full display, and no gasbag disappoints. What is more remarkable is how little the caricature of the puppets differs from the actual spew of their objects. Perhaps that is funniest of all.
This film makes full use of the liberty of comedy, employing and invoking the ancient rights of jesters everywhere to have no sacred cows. If you think of the film seriously, there is absolutely no way you can not be offended. If you enter into the Rabelaisian world of suspension of disbelief and watch the puppets become the morality play within the interior of the melodrama becomes evident. The admonition "That which stimulates our senses but at the same time does not elevate our morals is pernicious" is defeated by the exquisite combination of Rabelais, Satire, Machiavelli, and explosive plasticine. We are better for the distractions of the jesters: let them play on.
Team America: World Police.......2007-05-22
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, however, it's not suitable for children. The sex scene is outrageous! I found North Korea's Kim Jong-il's dialog to be insanely funny! If you have a funny bone, you will like this puppet movie. Definitely a cult movie with hopefully more episodes to follow. Highly Recommended.
Not near as funny as South Park.......2007-05-15
And the politics suddenly go righter-than-right (but still well to the left of Attila the Hun). I thought I'd like it a lot more than I did. There are some funny moments throughout, the sex scene, the puking scene, the Team America Theme Song scene. The plot is not exactly suspenseful, if you say it's a comedy and doesn't need a plot, the comedy is pretty sparse. For the whole film, you're waiting for something really funny to happen, but it never does. Some people complain about 'perceived political content' well hello, it is a comedy about politics, much more so than say, Austin Powers or even Maxwell Smart (remember him?) That would be fine, regardless of what tack it took, if it was a really funny film, but to me it was a wasted opportunity. I'd like to laugh at this film. But I can only laugh NEAR it, it seems.
Team America World Police .......2007-05-03
Team America is a good movie. It helps prople believe that there are heros, and vilians in the world ,but mostly heros hopfully.I highly recommend this book.
By:
Brittany Lockman
This film will be remembered when many others are forgotten.......2007-04-16
Okay. There are over 500 reviews on this and I hardly intend to make much of an impact. So let's keep things simple.
1. Juvenile, gross-out humor. Yes. Utterly and shamelessly. If you have no tolerance for watching a marionette puppet puke gallons of yellowish bile on the screen, then avoid this film. I tried my hardest to hit the fast-forward button on my remote, but I was laughing so hard I couldn't see.
2. Politically incorrect. Yes, in droves. Got a sacred cow? Prepare to watch it turned into a Big Mac before your very eyes. Personally, I found it very refreshing.
3. Inappropriate for children. Some might say inappropriate for adults.
There. That's out of the way. So why did they make it? If any of you recall, Jim Henson, when asked how he became such a success with puppets, replied that he and Frank Oz realized that some of the world's worst, stupid humor was actually very funny if it was delivered by a puppet. Puppets brilliantly facilitate the chasm needed to create a comic character; you have to care about the character, but you can't care too much or a comic character becomes a tragic character. So...
...what do you think happens when most people watch a highly acrobatic pair of naked people performing sex acts? It's pretty painful to watch. Now what happens when you watch TWO PUPPETS having acrobatic sex? It's a RIOT! See, puppets aren't supposed to have sex. They're supposed to say cute things and entertain little kids, not boink like porn stars.
Bottom line: either you "get" the humor or you don't. I can easily see how many people would be disappointed by the film, but it was very groundbreaking in its own way. To not find it funny is not terribly surprising, but to dislike it on the grounds, as many 1-star reviews claim, that it is a right-wing propaganda film has got to be far more preposterous than any absurdity that has made Parker and Stone two of the youngest and most successful comic talents in the past 40 years.
Average customer rating:
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Team America - World Police (UMD Mini For PSP)
Starring: Phil Hendrie , Angie Jaree , John D. Kim , Maurice LaMarche , and Josiah D. Lee
Director: Trey Parker
Manufacturer: Paramount
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ASIN: B0009UC7TS
Release Date: 2005-08-09 |
Product Description
Team America, an international police force dedicated to maintaining global stability learns that a power hungry dictator is brokering weapons of mass destruction to terrorists. The heroes embark upon a harrowing mission to save the world.
Customer Reviews:
Stunning satire.......2006-06-11
This brilliant movie starts out on an inspiring note, with the destruction of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre. And then it just gets funnier and better. The puppets appear quite human so that there's no problem with the "suspension of disbelief." The heroes are quite fallible but very likable.
There's some spectacular cinematography in the Panama Canal scenes and in Egypt, where the Great Pyramid and the venerable Sphinx suffer the same fate as the Eiffel and the Louvre. The Mount Rushmore scenes, (HQ of Team America) are also impressive.
Gary is an actor appearing in a Broadway musical when the Team approaches him for help. One of the most gripping scenes is Gary singing lead in a rendition of the hit song Everyone Has AIDS. The camera catches the emotional audience as some individuals shed an elegant, politically appropriate tear or two. Priceless!
Things turn even more hilarious with the appearance of the Film Actors Guild (FAG), led by the silver-tongued Alec Baldwin. His speech, interrupted by rapturous desk-thumping by the assembled FAG-ers that include Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Jeanine Garofalo and a particularly DUH Matt Damon, is something to cherish. The media comments by some of these esteemed celebrities are equally hilarious.
Then there is of course the intercourse, a passionate scene between two attractive teamsters, giving new meaning to Leonard Cohen's album title Various Positions. This is just a short interlude; I didn't find it particularly shock- or noteworthy. People do get up to these types of trick in the grip of passion.
Kim Jong Il is definitely a star of the movie with his cute accent and his banally evil personality. I caught myself entertaining thoughts of sympathy for Kim as he fed Hans Blix to his pet sharks. And the feeding itself reminded one again of the awesome savage power of nature. "Brix" (as Kim called him) learnt a lesson for trying to impose his silly western cultural norms on the beloved leader of North Korea. What arrogance to attempt such a thing!
In the meantime, the porcine propagandist, also known as Michael Moore, has caused great damage at the Mount Rushmore HQ by blowing himself up with a suicide jacket. But when things look bleak, Gary returns as the hero. Kim is entertaining the FAG celebrities plus delegations of dignitaries from around the world. This is to distract them while his minions are preparing to set off 230 major bombs around the world.
Just in time Gary frees the team, then he uses all his skills as an actor and orator to deliver an eloquent speech that completely upstages Alec Baldwin, the master of ceremonies. The detonation of the bombs is averted and a fight to the death ensues between the Team and the Hollywood actors. A particularly sleazy looking Sean Penn meets his end at the fangs of a big black kitty cat, Sarandon is sliced in two and the others are shot in riveting gun battles.
My only complaint is that I sorely missed Parker and Stone's most lovable characters, the Canadian master comedians Terrance and Phillip, whose movie Asses Of Fire contributed so much to making the South Park Movie so unforgettable. A bit of Terrance and Phillip's flatulence and coprofilia would have made this little gem even funnier.
Easily bored, I don't like long movies. I am pleased to report that Team America: World Police is just the right length. No scenes are superfluous or too lengthy, and the action sequences are all in the right places. I think it is going to become a cult movie like The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The best songs are the aforementioned Broadway number and Kim's I'm So Ronery ...
Team America: World Police has a progressive and subversive message that ought to please everybody across the political spectrum, from the leftist moonbat to the conservative fruitcake and all people with a sense of humour inbetween. The Gnostic nature of Gary's speech with which he wins over the audience of worldwide dignitaries, is particularly striking. Underneath all the vulgar references to reproductive and other organs, there is a profound message to people who like to ponder these things.
I also strongly recommend Stone and Parker's South Park TV series, the movie South Park: Bigger, Better, Uncut and the CD Chef Aid. This talented duo's talents and wicked sense of humour are quite unmatched in popular culture today.
Finally.......2005-08-16
I can now finally watch my favourite film on my PSP!I bought this 2 weeks ago and watched it on a boring 3 hour trip to my uncles and it amused me!Buy it on DVD and PSP!
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Watch both sides of the story.......2007-02-14
Wow, just when you think you've got the real scoop, someone else comes along and dumps a truckload of info refuting that. Fahrenheit garnered all the awards and was played in most theaters throughout America. Fahrenhype raises some serious issues with Michael Moore's style of journalism. If you're going to see the first movie, you really owe to yourself to watch the other.
Average customer rating:
- I laughed so hard I was exhausted...THIS IS NOT FOR CHILDREN!!!!!
- Team America: World Police
- Not near as funny as South Park
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- This film will be remembered when many others are forgotten
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An elite U.S. counter-terrorism squad loses a member while decimating half of Paris in the reckless pursuit of Middle Eastern maniacs; a Broadway actor with a traumatic childhood secret is naturally hired to replace him. Oh--and they're all marionettes. South Park maestros Trey Parker and Matt Stone (along with co-writer Pam Brady) came up with this shameless satire of pea-brained Hollywood action flicks and even smaller-minded global politics, so don't expect subtlety or even a hint of good taste. Team America is soon on the trail of North Korea's evil Kim Jong Il, who treats us to a tender song about his loneliness before ensnaring Alec Baldwin and the rest of the oblivious Film Actors Guild (F.A.G. for short) in a plot to blow up every major city on the planet. Just as the mindless squad cheerfully demolishes everything in sight, so do director Parker and company. Throwing punches Left, Right, and in-between, the movie's politics leave no turn un-stoned; there's even time to bludgeon the musical Rent. It's offensive, irresponsible comic anarchy seemingly made by sniggering little boys. Painfully funny sniggering little boys.--Steve Wiecking
Customer Reviews:
I laughed so hard I was exhausted...THIS IS NOT FOR CHILDREN!!!!!.......2007-06-29
Offensive and funny in the way that puppets expressing emotions, engaging in violence, having sex without sanction of sacraments and Church, and hurling obscenities can only be. I could not stop laughing the entire time.
I'm somewhere to the right of Vlad the Impaler, so the old right-bashing left-bashing arguments so beloved of South Park Republicans (mostly libertarians) don't carry much truck with me. Rightist hypocrisy and false braggadocio are on full display here, along with over-the-top chuckle-headed nationalism an inch deep and an ocean wide filled with the tears of sentiment and absent boarders of reason. On the flip side, self-righteous Hollywood poltroons are given their full display, and no gasbag disappoints. What is more remarkable is how little the caricature of the puppets differs from the actual spew of their objects. Perhaps that is funniest of all.
This film makes full use of the liberty of comedy, employing and invoking the ancient rights of jesters everywhere to have no sacred cows. If you think of the film seriously, there is absolutely no way you can not be offended. If you enter into the Rabelaisian world of suspension of disbelief and watch the puppets become the morality play within the interior of the melodrama becomes evident. The admonition "That which stimulates our senses but at the same time does not elevate our morals is pernicious" is defeated by the exquisite combination of Rabelais, Satire, Machiavelli, and explosive plasticine. We are better for the distractions of the jesters: let them play on.
Team America: World Police.......2007-05-22
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, however, it's not suitable for children. The sex scene is outrageous! I found North Korea's Kim Jong-il's dialog to be insanely funny! If you have a funny bone, you will like this puppet movie. Definitely a cult movie with hopefully more episodes to follow. Highly Recommended.
Not near as funny as South Park.......2007-05-15
And the politics suddenly go righter-than-right (but still well to the left of Attila the Hun). I thought I'd like it a lot more than I did. There are some funny moments throughout, the sex scene, the puking scene, the Team America Theme Song scene. The plot is not exactly suspenseful, if you say it's a comedy and doesn't need a plot, the comedy is pretty sparse. For the whole film, you're waiting for something really funny to happen, but it never does. Some people complain about 'perceived political content' well hello, it is a comedy about politics, much more so than say, Austin Powers or even Maxwell Smart (remember him?) That would be fine, regardless of what tack it took, if it was a really funny film, but to me it was a wasted opportunity. I'd like to laugh at this film. But I can only laugh NEAR it, it seems.
Team America World Police .......2007-05-03
Team America is a good movie. It helps prople believe that there are heros, and vilians in the world ,but mostly heros hopfully.I highly recommend this book.
By:
Brittany Lockman
This film will be remembered when many others are forgotten.......2007-04-16
Okay. There are over 500 reviews on this and I hardly intend to make much of an impact. So let's keep things simple.
1. Juvenile, gross-out humor. Yes. Utterly and shamelessly. If you have no tolerance for watching a marionette puppet puke gallons of yellowish bile on the screen, then avoid this film. I tried my hardest to hit the fast-forward button on my remote, but I was laughing so hard I couldn't see.
2. Politically incorrect. Yes, in droves. Got a sacred cow? Prepare to watch it turned into a Big Mac before your very eyes. Personally, I found it very refreshing.
3. Inappropriate for children. Some might say inappropriate for adults.
There. That's out of the way. So why did they make it? If any of you recall, Jim Henson, when asked how he became such a success with puppets, replied that he and Frank Oz realized that some of the world's worst, stupid humor was actually very funny if it was delivered by a puppet. Puppets brilliantly facilitate the chasm needed to create a comic character; you have to care about the character, but you can't care too much or a comic character becomes a tragic character. So...
...what do you think happens when most people watch a highly acrobatic pair of naked people performing sex acts? It's pretty painful to watch. Now what happens when you watch TWO PUPPETS having acrobatic sex? It's a RIOT! See, puppets aren't supposed to have sex. They're supposed to say cute things and entertain little kids, not boink like porn stars.
Bottom line: either you "get" the humor or you don't. I can easily see how many people would be disappointed by the film, but it was very groundbreaking in its own way. To not find it funny is not terribly surprising, but to dislike it on the grounds, as many 1-star reviews claim, that it is a right-wing propaganda film has got to be far more preposterous than any absurdity that has made Parker and Stone two of the youngest and most successful comic talents in the past 40 years.
Average customer rating:
- I laughed so hard I was exhausted...THIS IS NOT FOR CHILDREN!!!!!
- Team America: World Police
- Not near as funny as South Park
- Team America World Police
- This film will be remembered when many others are forgotten
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An elite U.S. counter-terrorism squad loses a member while decimating half of Paris in the reckless pursuit of Middle Eastern maniacs; a Broadway actor with a traumatic childhood secret is naturally hired to replace him. Oh--and they're all marionettes. South Park maestros Trey Parker and Matt Stone (along with co-writer Pam Brady) came up with this shameless satire of pea-brained Hollywood action flicks and even smaller-minded global politics, so don't expect subtlety or even a hint of good taste. Team America is soon on the trail of North Korea's evil Kim Jong Il, who treats us to a tender song about his loneliness before ensnaring Alec Baldwin and the rest of the oblivious Film Actors Guild (F.A.G. for short) in a plot to blow up every major city on the planet. Just as the mindless squad cheerfully demolishes everything in sight, so do director Parker and company. Throwing punches Left, Right, and in-between, the movie's politics leave no turn un-stoned; there's even time to bludgeon the musical Rent. It's offensive, irresponsible comic anarchy seemingly made by sniggering little boys. Painfully funny sniggering little boys.--Steve Wiecking
Customer Reviews:
I laughed so hard I was exhausted...THIS IS NOT FOR CHILDREN!!!!!.......2007-06-29
Offensive and funny in the way that puppets expressing emotions, engaging in violence, having sex without sanction of sacraments and Church, and hurling obscenities can only be. I could not stop laughing the entire time.
I'm somewhere to the right of Vlad the Impaler, so the old right-bashing left-bashing arguments so beloved of South Park Republicans (mostly libertarians) don't carry much truck with me. Rightist hypocrisy and false braggadocio are on full display here, along with over-the-top chuckle-headed nationalism an inch deep and an ocean wide filled with the tears of sentiment and absent boarders of reason. On the flip side, self-righteous Hollywood poltroons are given their full display, and no gasbag disappoints. What is more remarkable is how little the caricature of the puppets differs from the actual spew of their objects. Perhaps that is funniest of all.
This film makes full use of the liberty of comedy, employing and invoking the ancient rights of jesters everywhere to have no sacred cows. If you think of the film seriously, there is absolutely no way you can not be offended. If you enter into the Rabelaisian world of suspension of disbelief and watch the puppets become the morality play within the interior of the melodrama becomes evident. The admonition "That which stimulates our senses but at the same time does not elevate our morals is pernicious" is defeated by the exquisite combination of Rabelais, Satire, Machiavelli, and explosive plasticine. We are better for the distractions of the jesters: let them play on.
Team America: World Police.......2007-05-22
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, however, it's not suitable for children. The sex scene is outrageous! I found North Korea's Kim Jong-il's dialog to be insanely funny! If you have a funny bone, you will like this puppet movie. Definitely a cult movie with hopefully more episodes to follow. Highly Recommended.
Not near as funny as South Park.......2007-05-15
And the politics suddenly go righter-than-right (but still well to the left of Attila the Hun). I thought I'd like it a lot more than I did. There are some funny moments throughout, the sex scene, the puking scene, the Team America Theme Song scene. The plot is not exactly suspenseful, if you say it's a comedy and doesn't need a plot, the comedy is pretty sparse. For the whole film, you're waiting for something really funny to happen, but it never does. Some people complain about 'perceived political content' well hello, it is a comedy about politics, much more so than say, Austin Powers or even Maxwell Smart (remember him?) That would be fine, regardless of what tack it took, if it was a really funny film, but to me it was a wasted opportunity. I'd like to laugh at this film. But I can only laugh NEAR it, it seems.
Team America World Police .......2007-05-03
Team America is a good movie. It helps prople believe that there are heros, and vilians in the world ,but mostly heros hopfully.I highly recommend this book.
By:
Brittany Lockman
This film will be remembered when many others are forgotten.......2007-04-16
Okay. There are over 500 reviews on this and I hardly intend to make much of an impact. So let's keep things simple.
1. Juvenile, gross-out humor. Yes. Utterly and shamelessly. If you have no tolerance for watching a marionette puppet puke gallons of yellowish bile on the screen, then avoid this film. I tried my hardest to hit the fast-forward button on my remote, but I was laughing so hard I couldn't see.
2. Politically incorrect. Yes, in droves. Got a sacred cow? Prepare to watch it turned into a Big Mac before your very eyes. Personally, I found it very refreshing.
3. Inappropriate for children. Some might say inappropriate for adults.
There. That's out of the way. So why did they make it? If any of you recall, Jim Henson, when asked how he became such a success with puppets, replied that he and Frank Oz realized that some of the world's worst, stupid humor was actually very funny if it was delivered by a puppet. Puppets brilliantly facilitate the chasm needed to create a comic character; you have to care about the character, but you can't care too much or a comic character becomes a tragic character. So...
...what do you think happens when most people watch a highly acrobatic pair of naked people performing sex acts? It's pretty painful to watch. Now what happens when you watch TWO PUPPETS having acrobatic sex? It's a RIOT! See, puppets aren't supposed to have sex. They're supposed to say cute things and entertain little kids, not boink like porn stars.
Bottom line: either you "get" the humor or you don't. I can easily see how many people would be disappointed by the film, but it was very groundbreaking in its own way. To not find it funny is not terribly surprising, but to dislike it on the grounds, as many 1-star reviews claim, that it is a right-wing propaganda film has got to be far more preposterous than any absurdity that has made Parker and Stone two of the youngest and most successful comic talents in the past 40 years.
Average customer rating:
- I laughed so hard I was exhausted...THIS IS NOT FOR CHILDREN!!!!!
- Team America: World Police
- Not near as funny as South Park
- Team America World Police
- This film will be remembered when many others are forgotten
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An elite U.S. counter-terrorism squad loses a member while decimating half of Paris in the reckless pursuit of Middle Eastern maniacs; a Broadway actor with a traumatic childhood secret is naturally hired to replace him. Oh--and they're all marionettes. South Park maestros Trey Parker and Matt Stone (along with co-writer Pam Brady) came up with this shameless satire of pea-brained Hollywood action flicks and even smaller-minded global politics, so don't expect subtlety or even a hint of good taste. Team America is soon on the trail of North Korea's evil Kim Jong Il, who treats us to a tender song about his loneliness before ensnaring Alec Baldwin and the rest of the oblivious Film Actors Guild (F.A.G. for short) in a plot to blow up every major city on the planet. Just as the mindless squad cheerfully demolishes everything in sight, so do director Parker and company. Throwing punches Left, Right, and in-between, the movie's politics leave no turn un-stoned; there's even time to bludgeon the musical Rent. It's offensive, irresponsible comic anarchy seemingly made by sniggering little boys. Painfully funny sniggering little boys.--Steve Wiecking
Customer Reviews:
I laughed so hard I was exhausted...THIS IS NOT FOR CHILDREN!!!!!.......2007-06-29
Offensive and funny in the way that puppets expressing emotions, engaging in violence, having sex without sanction of sacraments and Church, and hurling obscenities can only be. I could not stop laughing the entire time.
I'm somewhere to the right of Vlad the Impaler, so the old right-bashing left-bashing arguments so beloved of South Park Republicans (mostly libertarians) don't carry much truck with me. Rightist hypocrisy and false braggadocio are on full display here, along with over-the-top chuckle-headed nationalism an inch deep and an ocean wide filled with the tears of sentiment and absent boarders of reason. On the flip side, self-righteous Hollywood poltroons are given their full display, and no gasbag disappoints. What is more remarkable is how little the caricature of the puppets differs from the actual spew of their objects. Perhaps that is funniest of all.
This film makes full use of the liberty of comedy, employing and invoking the ancient rights of jesters everywhere to have no sacred cows. If you think of the film seriously, there is absolutely no way you can not be offended. If you enter into the Rabelaisian world of suspension of disbelief and watch the puppets become the morality play within the interior of the melodrama becomes evident. The admonition "That which stimulates our senses but at the same time does not elevate our morals is pernicious" is defeated by the exquisite combination of Rabelais, Satire, Machiavelli, and explosive plasticine. We are better for the distractions of the jesters: let them play on.
Team America: World Police.......2007-05-22
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, however, it's not suitable for children. The sex scene is outrageous! I found North Korea's Kim Jong-il's dialog to be insanely funny! If you have a funny bone, you will like this puppet movie. Definitely a cult movie with hopefully more episodes to follow. Highly Recommended.
Not near as funny as South Park.......2007-05-15
And the politics suddenly go righter-than-right (but still well to the left of Attila the Hun). I thought I'd like it a lot more than I did. There are some funny moments throughout, the sex scene, the puking scene, the Team America Theme Song scene. The plot is not exactly suspenseful, if you say it's a comedy and doesn't need a plot, the comedy is pretty sparse. For the whole film, you're waiting for something really funny to happen, but it never does. Some people complain about 'perceived political content' well hello, it is a comedy about politics, much more so than say, Austin Powers or even Maxwell Smart (remember him?) That would be fine, regardless of what tack it took, if it was a really funny film, but to me it was a wasted opportunity. I'd like to laugh at this film. But I can only laugh NEAR it, it seems.
Team America World Police .......2007-05-03
Team America is a good movie. It helps prople believe that there are heros, and vilians in the world ,but mostly heros hopfully.I highly recommend this book.
By:
Brittany Lockman
This film will be remembered when many others are forgotten.......2007-04-16
Okay. There are over 500 reviews on this and I hardly intend to make much of an impact. So let's keep things simple.
1. Juvenile, gross-out humor. Yes. Utterly and shamelessly. If you have no tolerance for watching a marionette puppet puke gallons of yellowish bile on the screen, then avoid this film. I tried my hardest to hit the fast-forward button on my remote, but I was laughing so hard I couldn't see.
2. Politically incorrect. Yes, in droves. Got a sacred cow? Prepare to watch it turned into a Big Mac before your very eyes. Personally, I found it very refreshing.
3. Inappropriate for children. Some might say inappropriate for adults.
There. That's out of the way. So why did they make it? If any of you recall, Jim Henson, when asked how he became such a success with puppets, replied that he and Frank Oz realized that some of the world's worst, stupid humor was actually very funny if it was delivered by a puppet. Puppets brilliantly facilitate the chasm needed to create a comic character; you have to care about the character, but you can't care too much or a comic character becomes a tragic character. So...
...what do you think happens when most people watch a highly acrobatic pair of naked people performing sex acts? It's pretty painful to watch. Now what happens when you watch TWO PUPPETS having acrobatic sex? It's a RIOT! See, puppets aren't supposed to have sex. They're supposed to say cute things and entertain little kids, not boink like porn stars.
Bottom line: either you "get" the humor or you don't. I can easily see how many people would be disappointed by the film, but it was very groundbreaking in its own way. To not find it funny is not terribly surprising, but to dislike it on the grounds, as many 1-star reviews claim, that it is a right-wing propaganda film has got to be far more preposterous than any absurdity that has made Parker and Stone two of the youngest and most successful comic talents in the past 40 years.
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