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TEAM AMERICA WORLD POLICE

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I saw this movie last night. I nearly fainted I was laughing so hard. Best portrayal of Michael Moore yet.......a hot dog in each hand.......
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Boy did this ever deserve its R rating....
 
I think that trey and matt are probably the best thing that television has going for them right now.
Admitingly SouthPark is full of potty humor, 95% of their episode potray the most level headed and sensible political approaches out there.
Can't wait to see this movie!
 
Looks amazing, can't wait till friday.

Aaron, does it make as much fun of bush as I think it does / looks like.
 
They dont mention Bush......nor do they have a bush-esque character. It actually is an attack on hollywood politics and the "Global War on Terror".....its goes after both equally. So you can just sit back and laugh at "them" and "yourself"......
 
Looks like a great movie as long as its full of dumb humor like scary movie 2 than im going to love it. Brings back memories of an old show i  used to watch called thunderbirds any one heard of it
 
yeah man, that show kicked ass.

that is one of the reasons that maked the movie look so good, it makes it better because there are no recognizable actors, and it makes the whole movie funnier, not to mention nostalgic for those of us who remember the old marionette shows.
 
condor888000 said:
I have a crazy idea! Maybe, you could wait a week to see it!   ;)

That is not an option. hahaha yeah I guess I'll have to wait, but I think even the next weekend i'm doing my C9 PWT... :(
 
I have heard quite the opposite. My gf works at a silver city and saw it two nights back and she told me that it was really nothing more then a poke at America's involvement inIraq... either way I am too poor to see it.. so, keep me posted.  :warstory:
 
yeah, I am broke right now too, I will have to wait till I get paid on Thursday. oh well, it wont kill me to wait for a week, I hope. :P
 
I wasn't overly impressed with the movie.  Probably because I went in expecting a very political commentary.  There is some of that in the movie, but it's more about potty humour and cheap laughs.  Don't get me wrong, I can enjoy this kind of humour, but it just wasn't what I had hoped for from the movie.  I liken it a great deal to Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Baseketball (which is one of my favourites).  I think these guys missed a good opportunity to send a stronger political message, but obviously that wasn't the whole scope of the movie.

Kim Jong-il in a powder blue leisure-suit; now that's funny!
 
You went to a movie about puppets by the creators of south park......looking for cutting political commentary? You must be really annoying at parties..... ;D
 
Fair enough.  Maybe I over-estimated the potential of this movie just a bit (or a hell of a lot).

I heard they had puppets of Bush & Kerry made up and didn't use them.  I'd like to see what they had originally planned for them.  I think this site does them both justice:

http://www.jibjab.com/
 
I just saw the movie!!

Best Movie EVER!!!  ;D

I can't wait to buy the DVD!!!  I heard that they had to try 10 times to have the movie rated R (18+ in Canada)..  They got refused the other times!!
 
BWAAHAHAHAHA
I saw this movie tonight
and there was nothing that was taboo
Puppets having hardcore sex
Team America theme song (AMERICA, FUCK YEAH)
Michael Moore as a terrorist.
Kim Jong Is just a lonely guy

i was crying,
During the throw up scene I think I felt myself pee a little


 
thanks alot che, I was going to see it tonight, and (in Adam Sandler voice) YOU RUINED IT!!!!!!!!  :P

I'm sure that it will still make me piss myself tho.  ;D
 
FWIW, I found the movie to be very (libertarian) political (much like the TV show).  Consider these reviews (the first actually quotes the second):

"I was expecting the big "I learned something today" speech at the end, and Parker and Stone didn't disappoint. A staple of each overtly "message" episode of South Park, these little pearls of condensed wisdom serve as the argumentative summation of the satire. The gist of TA's "I learned something today" is: yes, America's military efforts around the world are not complete, unadulterated successes (how could they be?), and sometimes are bungled affairs, but they are also often necessary, and people who reflexively argue otherwise are ignorant, stupid or just plain evil, and sometimes all three."
<http://www.russellwardlow.net/blog/archives/2004/10/team_america.html>

"Goofy as they are, the members of "Team America" are treated, in the end, with affection, even respect, which is part of the film's political gist. When Team America blows things up in other countries, they do it by accident, in the course of their sloppy but zealous fight against the people who want to do it on purpose. This is not a trivial moral distinction, and it is one the film hangs onto in impressive earnest.

The obscene patriotic ditty that is the Team America theme song might be hyperbolic (and impossible to stop singing), but it is not sarcastic. Nor is a speech, delivered twice in the course of the action, most powerfully at the climactic moment, that is meant as an answer both to the Hollywood peaceniks and to the wishy-washy world community, whose representatives have gathered in North Korea for a peace conference.

Because of its graphic (though metaphorical) discussion of human anatomy, I can't quote any of the speech here, but it is one of the more cogent â ” and, dare I say it, more nuanced â ” defenses of American military power that I have heard recently. It is conveyed in language that no politician would dare use, by a puppet speaking to a roomful of puppets, in the wake of jokes about oral sex â ” all of which provides about as effective a camouflage as the pink and blue fatigues the Team America agents wear on their operations."
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/movies/15TEAM.html?ex=1129348800&en=b725445af42f5213&ei=5083&partner=Rotten%20Tomatoes>

Your mileage may vary ...
 
I will say the sex metaphor at the end of the movie is bloody brilliant.
 
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