http://www.teamamerica.com/ (http://www.teamamerica.com/)
Click on trailors, its from the makers of south park. Their all puppets on strings just like Thunderbirds except this is a 15 :). Loads of swearing etc etc, comes out next week me thinks.
Looks so funny :lmfao:
The theme tune is a big gung-ho "let's make the world American" style thing, and apparently some kind of psych-ops US soldiers in Iraq would drive through cities with it blaring out of speakers on their tanks. Win!
lmao
how lame though
Seen this twice at the cinema. And I ahve to say, it actually blew me away. An excellent tongue in cheek film, lost count of the amount of laugh out loud moments in that film.
Also quite a clever subtle message, i.e. that intervention may in fact be the answer, rather than criticising intervention, it criticises the methods in which it is carried out.
Add in lashings of puppet violence, piss takes of films (Matrix, Kill Bill, a song slating pear harbour) and pretty much every single American stereotype going and I though it was great.
If you were put off by the trailer, go and see it anyway! :D
5* from me
A review from Megan Lehman in the New York Post (one of the few film critics who seems to have a common sensical approach to the job) is reproduced here:
NOTE: SPOILERS CONTAINED IN REVIEW
TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE
A riot - with strings attached.
Running time: 90 minutes. Rated R (graphic, crude and sexual humor, violent images and strong language, all involving puppets). At the E-Walk, the Loews Lincoln Square, the Kips Bay, others.
PREPOSTEROUSLY juvenile but fiendishly clever, the latest offering from Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the lunatic creators of "South Park," tickles a whole new set of funny bones.
Their consistently hilarious, relentlessly potty-mouthed "Team America: World Police," about a team of gung-ho American commandos fighting to stop North Korean leader Kim Jong Il from selling WMDs to terrorists, aims its satirical big guns and fires at will.
True believers on both sides of the political fence are sprayed - Hollywood's most prominent pacifists are probably already on the phone to their lawyers - and every sacred cow takes some shrapnel.
Surprisingly, though, this slash-and-burn extravaganza of irreverence ultimately offers up a remarkably sensible, even optimistic, worldview that lets some air out of the inflated state of the current political climate.
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"Team America" works as satire. But, in a twin stroke of comic genius, the filmmakers sling their arrows within the framework of a clich‚-riddled action movie - and then have the terrorists, soldiers and power-mad dictator all played by puppets.
Just try not to laugh at the inherent silliness of these wooden marionettes as they jerkily trade karate chops, shoot pool or - in the outrageously graphic puppet sex scene that narrowly skirted an NC-17 rating - work through the Kama Sutra.
Inspired by the ludicrous camp of the 1960s British TV series "Thunderbirds," Parker and Stone have hit upon a winning formula: If a verbal joke falls flat - and a couple do - the laughs keep coming because the entire movie is a visual gag.
And a musical! Like the savvy slackers' 1999 movie, "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut," the film is punctuated by musical numbers, the very best of which is Team America's hysterically bombastic anthem, "America: F--- Yeah!"
"Team America" opens with the international "peacekeepers" employing their typically heavy-handed tactics fighting Islamic fundamentalist terrorists in Paris.
(In a running gag about America's reductive view of the world, the Eiffel Tower is plunked right next to the Arc de Triomphe, both of which are summarily blown up by the overeager super squad.)
When one of the all-American heroes is killed in the firefight, team leader Spotswoode, who suavely steers the action with a glass of Scotch permanently affixed to his little wooden hand, must recruit a replacement.
He settles on Broadway thespian Gary Johnston - "a top gun actor" starring in a musical about AIDS called "Lease" - who must use his acting abilities to infiltrate the terrorist network.
After some crude cosmetic surgery involving shoe polish and some randomly attached tufts of hair, Gary "acts" his way past a pair of guards - who, like all the Arab characters, speak a gibberish language comprised of "durka, durka" and "Mohammed jihad" - into an Egyptian hideout.
"Anybody know of any terrorist attacks coming up soon?" he asks innocently, sparking off another explosive debacle, which results in the destruction of the Sphinx and the Pyramids.
Team America's ham-fisted attempts at policing the world provoke the ire of the Film Actors Guild (or F.A.G.), headed by Alec Baldwin and featuring puppet versions of Sean Penn, Janeane Garofalo, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Martin Sheen and Matt Damon, among others.
In a misguided stab at peace, the celebrity activists align themselves with Kim Jong Il, who is secretly amassing WMDs in a plot to take over the world.
Kim Jong Il, portrayed as a stereotypical James Bond villain who spouts obscenities and sounds suspiciously like "South Park's" Cartman, is without doubt the funniest character in "Team America," and his sad little ditty about it being "rone-ry" at the top absolutely kills.
Careening merrily across a politically correct minefield, director Parker (who, along with Stone, voices many of the characters) skillfully creates some unforgettable set pieces, and the craftsmanship involved is simply spectacular.
From the incredibly detailed sets designed by David Rockwell and Jim Dultz (look closely, and you'll see the cobblestones in the Parisian streets are shaped like croissants) to the clever lighting employed by cinematographer Bill Pope ("The Matrix"), "Team America" is a visual treat.