Team America: World Police | | Cast : | Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Elle Russ | | Director : | Trey Parker | | Studio : | Paramount Home Video | | Format : | Animated, Color, Widescreen | | Released Date : | October 15, 2004 | | DVD Released Date : | May 17, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | Unrated | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 30, 2005 | | Summary | Funny... wrong in places... but funny!!!! | Content
 | Americans taking the piss out of Americans-what more could you ask for!!!
Team America has all the trademarks of South Park and Baseketball-the obsenities and the gross factors are all there, and all with puppets!!
The songs are very entertaining and a lot of the material is funny-some parts however leave some people a little queesy! Like a puppet throwing up and in this version, truly uncut-the added pieces removed from the sex scene... well.
I didnt no such things were possible!!
Watch this with a bunch of like minded, sick sensed, humerous mates and enjoy!!! not for the faint hearted-or politically correct!!
I would definitly reccommend seeing this at least once!!!
cheers Jaydle |
| Rating | | | Date | August 29, 2005 | | Summary | Politically naive, and five-star funny | Content
| A lot of reviewers are claiming that Team America gives it to both ends of the political spectrum. But despite a few jabs at "country music patriotism" and "Top Gun" style rah-rah films, the film's main political statement is one that Rush Limbaugh would take to heart: that opinionated entertainers on the left are a bigger problem than corrupt (or just plain stupid) politicians on the right. A pretty naive viewpoint (and I assume that Trey Parker and Matt Stone have some lame justification for their own status as opinionated entertainers).
That said, however, TA is one of the funniest films I've ever seen, and a remarkable technical accomplishment, right from the brilliant opening shot. Some have given one-star reviews due to the right-wing political message. I just want to add that if you can keep your sense of humor, there's lots to laugh at here, even if you aren't down with Parker and Stone's simple-minded politics: The songs that parody big-budget Hollywood films, the infamous "puppet sex" scene (as hilarious as you've heard, especially the "unrated" version), the brilliant speech to the UN at the end (can't even describe the subject matter). I'm guessing that most people will laugh even if they take offense to some of it. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 25, 2005 | | Summary | America, heck yeah | Content
| If you buy this, get the uncensored version by all means! If you're going to watch raunchiness, then watch it uncensored! I can't believe how much I laughed during this movie. South Park is funny from time to time but I just haven't been interested in that kind of thing in years. That's why I was so surprised at how enjoyable this movie was. As in South Park, Matt and Trey do not leave anyone out. They make fun of everyone and every point of view. If you like south park and toilet humor, but you didn't like this movie, then you must not have realized it is a satire. I don't understand some of the reviews I've read here. It sounds like people were offended! How could you watch this movie without knowing that Trey and Matt would make fun YOU! This movie mocks so many things that can't be listed, but here's tiny snippet: Conservatives, liberals, actors, polititians, Koreans, Muslims, Puerto Ricans, the French, Terrorists, Blond blue-eyed American Jocks, the musical Rent, theatre, action flicks, any movie with a love scene, any movie where people fall in love, Ben afleck(sp?), all the gov't money wasted on fancy jets and equipment, country music, "peace-loving" actors(who turn to murdering mad men in the movie) who are willing to jump on whatever bandwagon is most popular at the time, world leaders, the UN, extremist Michael Moore, and "Arec Barrwin" (as Kim Jong would say) just to name a few. If you were offended by this MOST HILARIOUS MOVIE, then you didn't know what you were getting in to. BUY IT! LAUGH your wooden puppet tushy off. (I will say, that I refuse to let my parents watch this film for they would FREAK during the love scene. Pure Pornography!) |
| Rating | | | Date | August 22, 2005 | | Summary | South Park with Marionettes | Content
| I've wasted more money before, but I'm still trying to remember when I wasted it more foolishly.
This has got to be the most obviously ridiculous snipe hunt in video history. While trying to be funny, it mostly succeeds in convincing the viewer that Hollywood is full of nothing but 'screaming-left-wing-liberals' who want to turn all the 'right-thinking conservative countries' (meaning, of course, the USA) over to North Korea, Iran, and Al Quaida.
Now, I'm the first one to agree that there's a Hell of a large liberal minority in Hollywood. As a VFW Lifer, I'm the first one to agree that much of what comes out of Hollywood - even now, with the post-9/11 hysteria that has the US jumping every time a bus backfires - is VERY liberal, and very patriotism-bashing.
BUT, it's nowhere near as virulent as this farce would have us believe. AND, while I love what it does to Michael Moore, I'm not sure Alec Baldwin or Susan Sarandon are anywhere NEAR as evil, self-serving, or just-plain-gullible as these guys make them out to be.
I'm not even going to dignify some of the graphic 'puppet-sex' scenes any farther than I just have.
All in all? Go buy a hamburger, take one bite, and throw the rest in the garbage. It's a better use of your money. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 22, 2005 | | Summary | Becoming what you profess to hate | Content
| Far less humorous than one would expect, with the only humorous gag being the (constantly repeated) Kim Il Jung depiction, which is truly funny, and not to mention well-deserved. The main problem with the movie is that, unlike South Park, it is in fact full-time exasperatingly stupid and bullying.
Sad to say, but the creators of South Park have become what they profess to hate. There is nothing that they enjoy more than graphically killing off celebrities who have the temerity to offer political opinions. Yet now we have Stone and Parker, as celebrities, bloated with entitlement to set up straw men to mow down. With their present celebrity status, their opinions are becoming more obnoxious than humorous, more bullying than incisive.
Caricaturing celebrities is one thing, but grossly misrepresenting anti-war opinions is another. Parker and Stone rather shamefully depict anti-war people (in this case a collection of anti-war celebrities) as not only against the war, but as actively fighting for North Korea against America! This message is pretty much in line with the neo-cons straw man approach: character assassination for simpletons. The net effect is to make the pro-war crowd feel good about themselves, fostering a belief that being against the war is traitorous.
Too bad. I hope in the next movie they kill off the most bloated and opinionated celebrities in George W. Bush's America: themselves. |
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