Review of Team America World Police
Year: 2004 Reviewer: Chris Docker
Outstanding achievement by the Trey Parker / South Park school of film satire, using puppets to lampoon American foreign policy but attacking the far left as well as the right wing 'save the world from terrorism' gung-ho attitude.
It might seem a tall order to keep the momentum going, but the fast pace, sharp wit and endless characters being lampooned rises to the challenge. The crack 'World Police' team (based on 'Thunderbirds are GO') follow information from a computer code-named 'Intelligence' that sometimes makes mistakes. As they hunt down real and suspected terrorists they manage an enormous amount of overkill in collateral damage, wreaking havoc on architectural wonders of the world. Their main enemies are coordinated not by Osama bin Laden (all Middle East terrorists look the same and speak a silly language made up of a few words like 'Lada, Lada, Jihad') but by the North Korean leader.
Their other opponents are limp wrested leftists in the Hollywood community (Alec Baldwin, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Michael Moore etc) who mouth off inanities about world peace under the umbrella organisation the Film Actors Guild (FAG). Awful Hollywood movies (like Pearl Harbour) also get it in the neck.
Includes lots of foul language and puppets having graphic sex, so avoid it if such things shock you.
Rating: 8/10
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