Team America - World Police (2004)
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 192
Fresh: 147 | Rotten: 45
Team America will either offend you or leave you in stitches. It'll probably do both.
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 40
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 12
Team America will either offend you or leave you in stitches. It'll probably do both.
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Directed by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Team America: World Police is a tongue-in-cheek but nonetheless politically biting send-up of the CGI-laden, big-budget action movies that have taken an almost exclusive hold over mainstream box offices, particularly during the summer months. Inspired by the Thunderbirds, a popular 1960s children's series, Team America: World Police uses similarly styled, but significantly more crass, marionette puppets in lieu of computer-generated
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Kristen Miller
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Daran Norris
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Phil Hendrie
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All Critics (206) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (155) | Rotten (46) | DVD (36)
Juvenile in the worst sense: confused and frightened by the adult world, and begging to be protected.
Top CriticThe first work from Parker and Stone that I'd describe as a failure of nerve.
I thought it was pretty clever.
Team America is at once grandiose and tacky, elaborate and deflationary.
Profane and sometimes bitingly funny.
Team America is not as funny as the South Park movie, and some of its juvenile humor falls flat. But when Team America works, it falls squarely into the category of guilty pleasure.
The jarhead action, intentionally crappy parody songs, mélange of terrorist gibberish and semi-sensible anatomical analogies for foreign policy all let "Team America" rowdily resurrect the Zucker Brothers' spirit of peerless, puerile genre satire.
Raunchy action comedy from South Park team isn't for kids.
Putting the fun back into misanthrope
Geniuses of satire Matt Stone and Trey Parker bring more laughs to the big screen after their wildly funny 1999 movie "South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut" with a cast of square-jawed marionettes fighting terror by way of North Korea's Kim Jong II in a re
As usual, heart and soul have been poured into an enterprise that Parker and Stone want you to think they just knocked off after a night of smoking weed.
An irredeemable exhibition of ethnic intolerance and moral depravity which repeatedly suggests that it's okay to hate people just for being different.
...hurt by Parker and Stone's reliance on speechifying and heavy-handed diatribes...
Bottom line: nice puppetry, crappy movie.
Audience Reviews for Team America - World Police
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"Freedom Hangs By A Thread."
Basically, Team America is exactly what you would expect from the team behind South Park. It's raunchy, it's politically incorrect, and it's funny. Still there seemed to be something missing from the formula that made this just another comedy, instead of something truly memorable and amazing like South Park. By no means is this a bad movie, and I could see how one could easily fall in love with it. I just couldn't.
Team America is a police agency that polices the world stopping terrorists in distant lands. A new comer to the agency is Gary, an actor. The group soon finds themselves outmatched when Kim Jong Il teams up with Alec Baldwin and the rest of the F.A.G. organization.
The movie has some extremely funny moments. It also features probably the funniest sex scene in the history of filmmaking. The movie is made with marionettes, so there's a lot of jokes aimed from that direction. I wouldn't call it a one joke comedy, but one of its jokes(the marionettes) doesn't work for as long as we would hope. Still, there's enough of the other stuff going on to keep the movie watchable and entertaining.
I have to admit that I'm slightly disappointed in the end result of Team America, but still it's a worthwhile and funny little marionette fueled film. Lovers of South Park need to give it a chance because the comedy will be right to their taste. Parker and Stone are smart enough to make this a satire that actually works on that basis. Sure, it's stupid, but that's what makes it funny. It could have been better, but as it is, it's not bad.
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- Kim Jong II: You are worthress, Arec Barrwin!
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- Gary: I will never die.
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- Kim Jong II: I'm so ronery.
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- Kim Jong II: It will be 911 times 2356.
- Chris: My God, that's... I don't even know what that is!
- Kim Jong II: Nobody does!
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- Spottswoode: Remember! There is no 'I' in team America!
- I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E.: Yes there is.
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