Team America - World Police
(2004)
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From the creators of South Park comes this feature film about Marionette superheroes fighting to end terrorism and put tired celebrities out of their misery. |
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Radio Times
South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have never been noted for their taste or restraint and here they admirably live up to their reputation for scatological hijinks. The film, performed by Thunderbirds-style marionettes, follows the titular team as they battle terrorism across the world as well as tackling an enemy closer to home, the ultra-liberal Film Actors Guild (if you examine the acronym, you'll get an idea of the level of the film's humour). The running joke is that Team America invariably cause more damage battling terror than do the terrorists themselves, but there are also swipes at Broadway musicals (a rousing song-and-dance number is entitled “Everyone Has Aids”), action-movie clichés and bleeding-heart Hollywood liberals (a Matt Damon puppet is so dim-witted that he can only say his own name). It's sporadically very funny and, of course, astonishingly offensive. Contains violence, swearing and puppet sex.
Halliwell's Film Guide
A subversive puppet movie with attitude; it contains something to offend everyone, from Hollywood liberals to gung-ho generals and Kim Jong-Il. It is consistently witty, frequently rude, often hilarious and sometimes silly in its parody of action movie cl