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| Team America: World Police |
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America: F*** Yeah!
Got your attention? Good. Offended? Oh well. The writers of Team America: World Police dont mind. In fact, neither do its directors or its principal voice actors. Thats because Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the originators of South Park, create based on what they each think will make the other laugh in this dynamic duo, and, judging by what theyve conjured up this time, both are probably still in stitches. A film only six months in the making, Team America is anything but the state-of-the-art visual masterpieces Hollywood has dished out ever since The Matrix. Using solely puppets and extravagant sets, Stone and Parker create a fresh, new look to the cgi-englazed eyes of viewers that is simultaneously hilarious and disturbing.
We open with a pleasant scene of Paris: old men playing games of chess with the Eiffel Tower in the background, young women selling fruit, and schoolchildren walking home, but, wait, something here does not look right! By a nearby water fountain, three Middle-Eastern men, wearing stereotypical Arabic tunics and turbans, speak to each other in a language that sounds, well, Middle-Eastern, but is obvious gibberish, as they exchange a suitcase containing what we all know is a nuclear device. Team America arrives at the spot in moments, ensuing in a hilarious fight scene that, like much of the action, could only be as originally funny as it was when strings are involved. Many celebrities appear in some light or another as the film progresses, including the villain, Kim Jong Il, who even takes us aside in his own song Im so Ronery. Many famous actors and actresses of today also come into play (Alec Baldwin and Matt Damon, to name a few), all members of the Film Actors Guild (go ahead, read the acronym), even Michael Moore makes a most memorable cameo.
As the title Team America: World Police may hint, the bulk of the cutting satire exists solely to point out the often absurdly closed-minded view America has of itself with respect to the rest of the world. Each new location visited is always noted with its distance to the United States, and after the elite World Police destroy half of downtown Paris to eliminate the terrorists, they blindly consider it a success worth celebrating! Matt and Trey, however, do do an excellent job of playing fair to both sides of the political spectrum, making the really only specific criticism to actors, hilariously treating their charisma as a kind of force-like power to control others with. As you may already know, the film almost received the NC-17 rating for its explicit sexual and violent references. The puppets in this film can and will, indeed, do every conceivable thing a normal human can do: vomit, bleed, explode, and even make love..blatantly, so leave the kiddies at home. This film will offend almost anybody and everybody.well, forget the almost, but you cant blame these South Parkers, after all, they certainly did what they set out to do: take no prisoners in making fun of everything that makes America, well, America.
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