Team America: World Police – (Unrated Widescreen Special Collector’s Edition)
In Group AMERICA: Globe POLICE, a group of marionette puppets form Group America, an international police force devoted to preserving international stability. Finding that a electrical 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 support of Broadway star Gary Johnston and embarks on a harrowing mission to conserve the globe. Opposed to this, is the Film Actors’ Guild, or F.A.G., whose members incorporate puppets representing actors Alec Baldwin, Tim Robbins, Matt Damon, Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. In spite of the lack of support they obtain, the team sticks to their program of saving the planet 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 sized-minded world-wide politics, so don’t assume subtlety or even a hint of very 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 prior to ensnaring Alec Baldwin and the rest of the oblivious Film Actors Guild (F.A.G. for brief) in a plot to blow up every major city on the planet. Just as the mindless squad cheerfully demolishes every little thing in sight, so do director Parker and organization. Throwing punches Left, Proper, and in-between, the movie’s politics leave no turn un-stoned there’s even time to bludgeon the musical Rent. It really is offensive, irresponsible comic anarchy seemingly produced by sniggering little boys. Painfully funny sniggering little boys.–Steve Wiecking
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