'Team America: World Police' is one of the best satires in modern cinema! Matt Stone and Trey Parker have matured a lot since the days of 'South Park' and it shows in this movie: it has more coherence, its jokes are more mature although the creators never mind indulging in gratuitous gore and scatological images, and the satire is sharper and more purpose-driven than in their previous movie. And they did it all with puppets! I love the way they spare no one and take no sides Republicans and Democrats are both get it, terrorists are ridiculed, Kim Jong Il finally receives some spotlight; I'm glad someone finally realised Saddam isn't half the threat this mad dictator in North Korea is, and perhaps this movie will educate some about it after all. This movie made my wish come true of seeing Michael Moore blown up to pieces, even if it were just a puppet: I hate this guy although we both agree on politics, but he just seems too eager to be under the lime lights all the time, and besides he makes very crappy, partial documentaries, manipulating facts when these should be objective. And not even Hollywood actors were spared. This might confuse many people, since the impression the filmmakers give is that they hate Penn and Robbins just because they're left-wingers. I think their problem is that they're just Americans.
In Europe there's some tolerance when an actor or writer or artist speaks out about politics; there's no reason to suppose they're not as well-informed as actual politicians. But in the USA it seems it doesn't look right when actors talk about politics, even if they're intelligent people like Tim Robbins who's made some good political movies. So they fall victim to satires like this; it seems even intelligent people like Parker and Stone missed that. Of course one should what then gives Trey and Parker to mess with politics, too? Even so, the jokes involving the actors were brilliant: Kim Jong Il's depending on the acting skills of Alec Baldwin to gather the world leaders in his palace, Gary's line to Susan Sarandon about her losing her acting skills, Gary's fear of out-performing Baldiwn because 'he's the greatest actor in the world,' they were all brilliant! Nothing beats Kim Jong Il singing in his palace, though.
This is a musical and all the songs are witty and tongue-in-cheek: 'I'm So Ronery' was obviously brilliant. The joke on Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer was priceless: the 'Pearl Harbor' song will remain in my mind for life! It's funny and completely true Cuba Gooding Jr. did deserve a bigger role in 'Pearl Harbor.' My favourite is 'Montage,' a brilliant piece of meta criticism on the art of film-making and a parody of montage-type scenes like the one where Gary goes from a wimp to a super soldier in two minutes 'Even Rocky had a montage' indeed! I wasn't expecting much from this movie besides mindless fun in the sense 'South Park' was mindless fun to me. But 'Team America: World Police' is actually quite clever and witty satire. Parker and Stone have promised never to work with puppets again, which is a pity, they're hilarious, but I hope they can outdo themselves with their next movie! These two brilliant filmmakers just seem to get better and better.
In Europe there's some tolerance when an actor or writer or artist speaks out about politics; there's no reason to suppose they're not as well-informed as actual politicians. But in the USA it seems it doesn't look right when actors talk about politics, even if they're intelligent people like Tim Robbins who's made some good political movies. So they fall victim to satires like this; it seems even intelligent people like Parker and Stone missed that. Of course one should what then gives Trey and Parker to mess with politics, too? Even so, the jokes involving the actors were brilliant: Kim Jong Il's depending on the acting skills of Alec Baldwin to gather the world leaders in his palace, Gary's line to Susan Sarandon about her losing her acting skills, Gary's fear of out-performing Baldiwn because 'he's the greatest actor in the world,' they were all brilliant! Nothing beats Kim Jong Il singing in his palace, though.
This is a musical and all the songs are witty and tongue-in-cheek: 'I'm So Ronery' was obviously brilliant. The joke on Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer was priceless: the 'Pearl Harbor' song will remain in my mind for life! It's funny and completely true Cuba Gooding Jr. did deserve a bigger role in 'Pearl Harbor.' My favourite is 'Montage,' a brilliant piece of meta criticism on the art of film-making and a parody of montage-type scenes like the one where Gary goes from a wimp to a super soldier in two minutes 'Even Rocky had a montage' indeed! I wasn't expecting much from this movie besides mindless fun in the sense 'South Park' was mindless fun to me. But 'Team America: World Police' is actually quite clever and witty satire. Parker and Stone have promised never to work with puppets again, which is a pity, they're hilarious, but I hope they can outdo themselves with their next movie! These two brilliant filmmakers just seem to get better and better.