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If you don’t understand that Matt Stone and Trey Parker are true masters in what they do, then you may not agree with this review. Because in my opinion, Team America, World Police - the latest offering by the South Park crew - has hit one out of the park.
Rating: 5 out of 5
This moive lampoons not only our current position of foreign policy but the extremist views on both sides of the fence. Matt and Trey are brilliant in the way that they take the two polar extremes of all issues and find the common middle ground of reason.
Filmed like an old episode of The Thunderbirds, complete with marionettes, the movie features a team of super heroes (representing the US forces) who stay busy keeping the world safe from terrorism. Unfortunately, their efforts ? even though effective ? tend to cause more destruction than what they are sent to prevent. In this movie’s battle for security of the world, the team recruits an actor, because only an actor has the superpower skills needed to infiltrate the evil terrorist cell. The whole transformation of our actor/hero is funny as hell, and I still hurt from laughing at this part of the movie.
Matt and Trey also take shots at the recent on-slaught of actors taking on the role of political activist such as Sean Penn, George Clooney, and a host of others. The boys pull no punches portraying them as power hungry extremists who are just as responsible for the current state of things as those they shake their collective fists at. Needless to say, this movie is a wild ride and the final analogy of the three kinds of people in the world is nothing short of genius.
Go see this movie, but leave the kids at home. If you think that there is no way to make marionettes dirty enough to merit an ?R? rating? think again. The sex scene has to be experienced to be believed.
