Team America: World Police - Unrated (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition)
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Actor: Angie Jaree, John D. Kim, Josiah D. Lee, Maurice LaMarche, Phil HendrieBrand: Paramount
Primary Contributor: Elle Russ
Primary Contributor: Matt Stone
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Arabic (Original Language); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Korean (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Animated, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD-Video, 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 - Unrated (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition)
DVD Review: Gorillas And Guerillas
Summary: 4 Stars
"Team America World Police" is a political satire from Trey Parker and Matt Stone about their perceptions of America's role as the world's policeman. Made with "Thunderbirds" style marionettes, the plot springs from the destruction of much of Paris while pursuing terrorists, where an elite U.S. counter-terrorism group loses a member; the replacement turns out to be an actor with a boatload of emotional baggage. Before long North Korean crackpot Kim Jong-il plots world destruction with the help of the Film Actors Guild, lead by Alec Baldwin. An assortment of leftist actors sympathizes with Kim and believes everything to be America's fault. Satire can be the best indicator of reality; certainly this is one of those times as the film satirizes the arrogance, na?ve, and simplistic attitudes so prevalent in the chic Hollywood political activist circuit.
The film is somewhat libertarian in attitude, as it mocks elements from all political factions from Derkaderkastan to Hollywood. By far most of the venom here is directed at the far left Hollywood elite, with special treatment reserved not only for Baldwin, but Michael Moore (who is referred to as a "giant socialist weasel," and who blows up Mount Rushmore), Martin Sheen and Tim Robbins (who are North Korean guards), Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, Janeane Garofalo, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Danny Glover, Peter Jennings, and others. The actors meet fates appropriate for the film, with Glover and Penn being eaten by house cats, for instance.
The United Nations, as impotent in this film as it is in real life, is also rightfully mocked. The U.N. sends the useless Hans Blix to inspect Kim Jong-il's property, and Hans is quickly eaten by Kim's sharks. Kim gets to sing a ballad about loneliness that is the musical highlight of the film, although I loved the battle preparation song complete with the line "we're gonna' need a montage" almost as much.
As you might expect from Parker and Stone, the film is frequently tasteless (e.g. extensive marionette vomiting) and is very politically incorrect. I am by no means a fan of "gross out" humor, and while some of the gags could have been dispensed with, the satirical points made by Parker and Stone are completely legitimate. Unsurprisingly some of the people caricatured in the film were unhappy with the skewering they received. Penn wrote a hostile and profane letter to Parker and Stone as a result, which seemed to prove that he can dish it out but can't take it, although Clooney was more mature and claimed that he would have been insulted had he not been parodied in the movie.
The film is refreshingly independent and did well at the box office (grossing approximately $51 million), which provides hope that more films not beholden to the uber-left Hollywood mentality will be greenlighted in the future. While "Team America" is nowhere near perfect, it does have many funny moments interspersed with the gratuitous grossness, and most importantly of all, effectively skewers its targets, which was the point in making a satire in the first place.
DVD Review: Best iirreverent political satire out there.
Summary: 5 Stars
The creators of Southpark really showed their stars this time. It doesn't matter what side of the political isle you're from, there is humor for everyone here because this movie makes fun of everyone and everything. No one is lesft unscathed. It will truely open your eyes to how riduculous we all look when we get too political. If you like gross perverted humor, you're going to love this movie.DVD Review: Very Funny!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a very funny movie from the creators of South Park! I love all the jokes about the F.A.G. actors, the terrorists, the song about AIDS, the puppet sex, and much more! It's a fun movie to watch. The leader of Team America named Spottswoode hires a brilliant stage actor named Gary Johnston to help them retrieve information about WMDs. Gary and Lisa fall in love, but Sarah is mad about that. Soon, the whole team is taken by Kim Jong-il's men. Gary tries to help stop him from carrying out his evil plan. If you love comedy, puppets, and Trey Parker & Matt Stone's humor, you'll love TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE!!!DVD Review: The title says it all
Summary: 5 Stars
This old school marionette action/adventure format first visited on
baby-boomer kids, is hysterically funny. However, this isn't for kids! It's for grown-up boomers who can appreciate the awkwardness of an outrageous marionette sex scene. Just as Parker and Stone's "South Park" is an equal-opportunity offender, so is "Team America." Expect extreme stereotypes and un-P.C. behavior. And a lot of good--if sometimes guilty--laughs.
DVD Review: Freedom Ain't For Free...
Summary: 5 Stars
At once an homage to the work of Gerry Anderson, a sardonic commentary on US interventionist policies, and an hysterical cavalcade of scatological humour. It's profoundly wrong and very, very funny. Highly recommended.
Description of Team America: World Police - Unrated (Widescreen Special Collector's 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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