Jul 04 2008
Special 7/4 Review! America! F*** Yeah!
Trye Parker and Matt Stone have solidified themselves in comedy concrete not by just doing South Park, but the films they’re involved with as well. With Team America: World Police, they’ve pulled many a gutsy move as far as statements about certain countries go.
Team America: World Police was done completely by use of puppets, which can be signified only as strange nowadays, now that there’s CGI Animation, special effects and others. The inspiration for use of puppets was brought about by a children’s show called Thunderbirds. If Matt Stone and Trey Parker are present, you can imagine that a lot of rauchy, screwball-esque type comedy is headed your way.
The plot is down right ridiculous, but like I said in one of my previous blogs, “it’s a comedy, it’s supposed to make you laugh.” Terrorists are overrunning the globe, America’s had enough, and a team of specialists are hired to stop it all. Kim Jong-Il is pissed at the world so he wants to make every thing right by bringing chaos to the world. Enter an actor named Gary to sneak information about whats going on with Jong-Il’s master plan.
This movie is still talked about to this day, myself and most of my friends included. Some of the best one-liners you will ever hear, “Durka Durka”, “I’m so Ronery”, “Matt Damon”, “America, F*** YEAH!”… I could go on. There’s tons of swearing, a sex scene, vomiting, gay slurs, and more galore! Bear in mind that these are all done by puppets! The only “real” cameo is done by two black cats who claim to be panthers.
All in all, it’s wacky and it’s smart. Trey Parker actually shipped 5 copies of this movie to Kim Jong-Il himself in hopes that he’d see what kind of person he truely is. For a movie that screams America, but takes a potshot at America as well, this stands out in a sea of crappy movies.
F*** YEAH!
4 out of 5 salutes to Old Glory
Catch ya on the flipside
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!
