Team America - World Police (Special Collector's Widescreen Edition)
by Trey Parker
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Actor: Elle Russ, Kristen Miller, Masasa Moyo, Matt Stone, Trey ParkerDirector: Trey Parker
Brand: Paramount
Writer: Trey Parker
Producer: Matt Stone
Writer: Matt Stone
Producer: Anne Garefino
Producer: Frank C. Agnone II
Producer: Michael Polaire
Writer: Pam Brady
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Arabic (Original Language); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Korean (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-17
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of Team America - World Police (Special Collector's Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: Hilarious...
Summary: 4 Stars
How do you review a film with a musical theme that exclaims, "America, F--- Yeah!" It's tough because: a) You need a dirty word thesaurus to avoid filing a review with more expletives than an Andrew Dice Clay rant, and b) It's hard to work when you're constantly giggling to yourself incessantly.
"Team America: World Police" is the anti-blockbuster. The characters are marionette puppets whose strings are in plain sight because it's funny. The voice-overs don't sound anything close to the celebrities and politicians they're representing, because it's funny. But much of the dialogue--with the exception of the cursing--could be pulled straight from any Jerry Bruckheimer film...because it's funny.
"South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker offend everyone in "Team America"--foreign and domestic leaders, conservatives and liberals, outspoken Hollywood mouthpieces and...outspoken Hollywood mouthpieces. But one thing they are clearly critical of is the United States foreign policy mentality of kick ass now, ask questions later. If there's a hell, Parker and Stone will be living in the penthouse.
But let's talk about the puppets. The marionettes look slick. When they speak, the movements of their mouths fluidly match their words. In other words, they put Milli Vanilli to shame. And the stuff that they can't do without herky jerky silliness, namely Kung Fu fighting and love making, comes off as so hilarious that it's almost too bad all movie actors couldn't be replaced by puppets.
Team America is a no-holds-barred freedom fighting force that's called in whenever there's an international emergency. They live in Mt. Rushmore, drive souped up super vehicles and wield rocket launchers. The team is led by Spottswoode, a debonair smooth talker with an ambiguous sexual preference. When one of the team members is killed by terrorists (who speak a broken record of "Jihad bakakakaka"), Spottswoode recruits Broadway thespian Gary Johnston to "act" his way past the terrorists and infiltrate their treacherous network. Unbeknownst to Team America in the beginning, North Korean leader Kim Jung II, is secretly supplying terrorists with WMDs. Kimmy is probably the most hysterically rendered---and most un-PC character. I can't give out more information without committing a hate crime.
While Team America takes out their targets, they also take out many people and international treasures that aren't their target, a.k.a collateral damage. They take out the Eiffel Tower, the Sphinx and thousands of innocent puppets. And when they do, they draw the ire of the Film Actors Guild (an acronym I don't need to dwell on...but one that "Team America" does). An obviously spoof on the Screen Actors Guild, it comprises Alec Baldwin, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon and other celebrities who use their notoriety as a political soapbox. Of course, now, actors are using their notoriety as a soapbox to speak out against "Team America" in some sort of ironic countermeasures. Confused? Me too.
If you don't know anything about "Team America: World Police," when you step into the theater, you'll be like a rich kid on Christmas morning. You'll get every damned thing you want, from hot puppet sex to gory puppet deaths, playful songs with illicit lyrics and more. No strings attached.
Description of Team America - World Police (Special Collector's Widescreen Edition)
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.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
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