{"id":4969,"date":"2006-05-08T06:32:12","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T10:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=4969"},"modified":"2006-05-08T06:32:12","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T10:32:12","slug":"team-america-world-police-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/08\/team-america-world-police-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Team America: World Police (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"team-america-world-police-1168-16x9-large\"<\/a>Trey Parker and Matt Stone once explained in an episode of Charlie Rose that they\u2019d never reveal their religious or political affiliations, because they didn\u2019t want to alienate their audience. But \u201cTeam America\u201d is an indictment of literally every issue under the sun, from Hollywood, to the government, to Bruckheimer films, right down to crappy shows like RENT. \u201cTeam America\u201d is at its best though when it spoofs not only Bruckheimer\u2019s insanely over the top films, but when it spoofs blind patriotism.<\/p>\n

Parker and Stone\u2019s film is also funniest when jabbing at Hollywood liberalism portraying many of the Hollywood liberal elite as numb-skulled, elitist morons whom are fooled in to a false plan by the hilariously spoofed Kim Jong Il. \u201cTeam America\u201d in all its well-intentioned spoofing is never as clever as it thinks it is. Parker and Stone in all their abilities and resources, never look as innovational and ahead of their time as they think they do. With a weekly show in which they spoof anything and everything under the sun, it\u2019s hard to tackle anything fresh or new, so \u201cTeam America\u201d really just treads over old material. Spoofing the idiocy of RENT, Michael Moore, and Right Wingers? Been done. Most of the jokes in \u201cTeam America\u201d are really just hit and miss; especially the \u201cpolitical satire\u201d, which often fell flat.<\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s the RENT spoof with the song \u201cEveryone has AIDS\u201d, to a musical montage about how freedom isn\u2019t free, and the Film Actor\u2019s Guild being spelled F.A.G., the jokes just feel flat because they feel re-fried by the very guys who take such delight in doling them out week after week. \u201cTeam America\u201d is often funny, just not as funny as it makes itself out to be from the beginning. Their film is not based around Parker and Stone picking on every issue and showing its stupidity, their film is really just two people with a carte blanche on issues that they try to tackle in such a short amount of time. It\u2019s not about whom they want to attack and putting them in their places, but how many people they can attack as possible in the running time, only for the mere shock effect. But when it isn\u2019t trying to make a political statement, it sure is a lot of fun. Mostly with its portrayals of its heroes as beefed up, cocky, ignoramuses who go head first into a situation and do more harm than good.<\/p>\n

The original plan for \u201cTeam America\u201d was to remake the really bad \u201cArmageddon\u201d but with puppets, but Parker and Stone really create a much better film by spoofing Bruckheimer, and they do it in the most deadpan sense. Whether it\u2019s the terrorists speaking in an odd blather, or the heroes shouting idiotic statements to one another, \u201cTeam America\u201d is pretty damn fun. And Parker and Stone delight in giving us truly funny one-liners that will leave its audience quoting it to one another for days. \u201cTeam America\u201d starts off with a bang and manages to make its message known loud and clear. I expected much more from Stone and Parker, I have to admit. \u201cTeam America\u201d while entertaining, really thinks it\u2019s leading the pack in terms of jabs at politics and Hollywood. When it\u2019s not beating us over the head with \u201cclever political satire\u201d, it can be a fun film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trey Parker and Matt Stone once explained in an episode of Charlie Rose that they\u2019d never reveal their religious or political affiliations, because they didn\u2019t want to alienate their audience. But \u201cTeam America\u201d is an indictment of literally every issue under the sun, from Hollywood, to the government, to Bruckheimer films, right down to crappy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,71,219,246,788,809,874,898,906,973,1020,1087,1173],"class_list":["post-4969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-comedy","tag-cult","tag-political","tag-puppets","tag-romance","tag-satire","tag-science-fiction","tag-spoof","tag-t","tag-thriller","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}