Team America trailer looks great!

POSTED BY: Succatash
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 22:04
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SUCCATASH

Saturday, July 31, 2004 8:13 PM

This movie should be funny, what do you all think?

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/team_america/

"Gott kann dich nicht vor mir beschuetzen, weil ich nicht boese bin."

DARKJESTER

Saturday, July 31, 2004 10:18 PM

I think you're spot-on, Tash! "Delta Force" meets "Captain Scarlet". Should be a hoot!

MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

CONSCIENCE

Sunday, September 19, 2004 8:54 PM

Apparently one critic who read the script, described it as "the funniest anti-liberal movie ever made".

In the film, Alec Baldwin gets elected president and America is immediately invaded by North Korea. While this is happening Hollywood celebrities go out of their way to take the anti-America side, as they usually do.

Anybody But Nader!

TMURRIE

Sunday, September 19, 2004 10:25 PM

I really can't wait for it to come out, it looks really funny. Hey terroists! terrorize this! boom

EBONEZER

Monday, September 20, 2004 1:00 AM

I saw the teaser trailer in the theater and it started by listing your a-list actors, I think George Clooney was one of them. Then it started getting into names like Micheal Moore, Alan Greenspan, Dick Cheney, and George W. Bush (and of corse everybody in the audence is like WTF?) then it says 'Are gonna be really, really angry'

It was great.

Just thought I'd share.

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BROWNCOAT1

Monday, September 20, 2004 6:28 PM

It looks hi-larious to me. The wife and I are planning on seeing it when it hits the big screen.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

CREVANREAVER

Monday, September 20, 2004 8:45 PM

From what I've heard and read about the film, it'll be a humorous alternative to Michael Moore's Fakenheit 9/11!

GHOULMAN

Monday, October 4, 2004 4:08 PM

The Southpark creators have always had a keen sociological eye... I'd watch this movie!

Thanks for pointing it out Succatash!

CREVANREAVER

Tuesday, October 5, 2004 8:07 PM

Here is a review of the movie:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134467,00.html

South Park' Makers: Sex, Puppets and Controversy

Try to imagine, if you will, a movie that in its first few minutes offends just about everyone who's watching it.

Then you have "Team America: World Police," the new outrageous and controversial new comedy from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of "South Park."

Even as we speak, several prominent Hollywood actors may be calling their lawyers to check on slander laws. GLAAD is certainly drafting a press release condemning the film, and North Korean madman Kim Jong II may have a case as well.

I saw this film over the weekend, quite by accident, although it is not nearly ready yet to be seen. And believe it or not, "Team America" opens next Friday.

I'm told that at this weekend's press junket in Los Angeles, writers were shown only a 20-minute reel of highlights because there was no finished print.

"Team America," as you may know, is performed by marionettes à la the great British animated puppeteer Gerry Anderson's TV shows of the early '60s, such as "Thunderbirds," "Supercar" and "Fireball XL5."

In those shows, benign puppets dressed as space men or scientists bounced along merrily with their strings showing. It was part of the appeal, and the shows are still popular on DVD. I have a personal affection for "Supercar."

Parker and Stone have taken this concept — I don't know if they had to license it from Anderson — and gone one better.

Instead of making a live-action movie like the latest version of "Thunderbirds," which was a box-office failure this summer, they devised their own plot and characters.

What if they made a Jerry Bruckheimer-like action movie that was really a spoof, with lots of explosions, coarse, vulgar language and enough offbeat sexual situations to rile the MPAA?

This is a movie so rough that should, by some strange happenstance, its theme song be nominated for an Oscar — as "Blame Canada" was from the "South Park" movie — there is no way it could actually be performed at the Academy Awards.

In some respects, it's hard to believe that Paramount Pictures — home in the last decade of "Forest Gump" and "The Hours" — is releasing this film. You have to give producer Scott Rudin credit; he's a brave man.

"Team America" is certainly destined to be a cult classic, but it may have a rocky road getting to that status. Watching the movie means being slack-jawed for its 90-minute running time.

When I saw it over the weekend, the only other person in the screening room kept looking around to make sure a.) I was all right and b.) that we were really seeing what we were seeing.

The plot: In short, a CIA-type organization hires a Broadway musical actor to pretend to be an Arab terrorist and infiltrate terrorist organizations. (In the end, the world is safe, the movie claims, thanks to brilliant acting. Ouch.)

"Team America," you see, boldly goes where no one has gone before, sending up post-9/11 terrorism, Arabs, Koreans, the CIA and liberal-minded Hollywood actors all at the same time.

The one group that seems to escape total comic annihilation is the current presidential candidates. And that's just as well.

Still, in the first few minutes, we get Gary, our Broadway star, performing a song called "Everyone Has AIDS" in a musical named "Lease." (That's a parody of "Rent," wink wink.)

When you realize the refrain is "Everyone has AIDS, white folks and also spades," you see the direction we're headed in.

Before long, Gary is recruited by the CIA to join Team America, a sort of "Mission: Impossible" squad designed to thwart terrorists. Gary (who would be played by Keanu Reeves if he weren't a puppet) falls for the female leader of Team America, a saucy blonde.

The two puppets have a wild sex scene set, in the version I saw, to Aerosmith's "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" — the love theme of Bruckheimer's "Armageddon" — in which full androgynous plastic nudity is unbound. But so are the lovemakers' positions. I

GHOULMAN

Tuesday, October 5, 2004 9:00 PM

Wow, a positive FOX review... is it just me or did the writer not "get it".

Also... why did he refer to sex as "vulgar acts"? Are we living in the 50s?!?!?!

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