Team America:World Police reviewed by Brian "the Naked Gun" Felts
The story is quite simple, Team America, which is a terrorist response unit, tries to prevent terrorists
from destroying the world. They discover a plot by some unknown terrorist who is going to do something
which is going to be 9/11 times 3254. Which means it is 2,964,394. But since the team is to public,
they have to hire an undercover agent to infiltrate the terrorist group. So they get an actor from
the Broadway musical "Lease" (I am not sure of the name of the musical, but it is a spoof of "Rent".)
So the actor, Gary, volunteers to help Team America. He falls in love with one of the female agents
Lisa, and go to have one of the greatest sex scenes in movie history.
Anyway the group discovers that Kim-Jung-IL of North Korea is bringing all of the leaders of the free
world to North Korea to participate in a peace conference and simultaneously setting off bombs in different
parts of the world. Helping him in the peace conference are a bunch of Hollywood actors lead by Alec Baldwin
as leads an organization called F.A.G. (I can't remember what the acronym stands for,) and it also has Helen
Hunt, Rosie O'Donnell and Michael Moore to name a few. This group hates Team America and all that it stands
for.
It's impossible to comment on the acting since it is all puppets with the same design as the old
British Thunderbirds in the 70's.
This movie is story driven, and I feel that it is an excellent political satire created by Trey Parker.
His cartoon, South Park, is very political, and very good. But people can't get pass the lewd and
crude humor so they miss the politics. Team America is written very similar to South Park. Parker
makes fun of both Liberals and Conservatives in America, and he pulls no punches. This is satire
at its best. His attack on the liberal Hollywood actors is particularly harsh, attacking them
for there belief that because they are famous they should have a voice in how the nation, and
the world, is run.
The story is also excellent just because of the fact that the movie lasts almost two hours and
you don't get tired of it even though it's nothing but puppets.
This movie is excellent and should be seen by all who like to see satire. This is also a much
better political statement than Fahrenheit 9/11.
Brian - the Naked Gun
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