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Team America - World Police (2004)

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77

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.

70

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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Average Rating: 3.4/5
User Ratings: 376,979

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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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Matt Stone, Trey Parker, Pam Brady

May 17, 2005

$32.7M

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Juvenile in the worst sense: confused and frightened by the adult world, and begging to be protected.

October 22, 2004 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comments (4)
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The first work from Parker and Stone that I'd describe as a failure of nerve.

October 19, 2004 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comments (2)
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I thought it was pretty clever.

October 19, 2004 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comments (3)
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Team America is at once grandiose and tacky, elaborate and deflationary.

October 19, 2004 Full Review Source: Village Voice
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Profane and sometimes bitingly funny.

October 15, 2004 Full Review Source: Washington Post
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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.

October 15, 2004 Full Review Source: USA Today
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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.

October 23, 2010 Full Review Source: Suite101.com
Suite101.com

Raunchy action comedy from South Park team isn't for kids.

August 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comments (17)
Common Sense Media

Putting the fun back into misanthrope

July 22, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinemania

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

April 18, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com
ColeSmithey.com

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.

September 23, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
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An irredeemable exhibition of ethnic intolerance and moral depravity which repeatedly suggests that it's okay to hate people just for being different.

June 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Ellsworth American | Comments (7)
Ellsworth American

...hurt by Parker and Stone's reliance on speechifying and heavy-handed diatribes...

May 6, 2006 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comments (3)
Reel Film Reviews

Bottom line: nice puppetry, crappy movie.

January 11, 2006 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comments (12)
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Audience Reviews for Team America - World Police

A clever, vulgar, unique comedy from the minds of the South Park creators concerning a team of police whose mission is to protect the world from any threats, including dictators like Kim Jong-Il, who wish to destroy the world with nuclear weapons. Although "admirable" might not be the best word to describe the film, it's really impressive that these guys were able to pull off a film using nothing but marionette puppets, which speaks to their passion as I'm sure this was no easy task filming scenes. They have no problem poking fun at their own creation, with some hilarious fight scenes and spurts of violence that are side-splittingly finny. If you like "South Park", you should like this film easily. If you can't stand these guys sense of humor, then stay away from this as well. I think "South Park" is one of the best shows of all-time, so I naturally ended up enjoying this movie.
June 25, 2007
Dan Schultz

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Joe: Shit! I've got five terrorists going southeast on Bakalakadaka Street! 

"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.
September 2, 2012
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Melvin White

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    1. Kim Jong II: You are worthress, Arec Barrwin!
    – Submitted by Kondwani D (6 months ago)
    1. Gary: I will never die.
    – Submitted by Daniel R (7 months ago)
    1. Kim Jong II: I'm so ronery.
    – Submitted by Jamison E (12 months ago)
    1. Kim Jong II: It will be 911 times 2356.
    2. Chris: My God, that's... I don't even know what that is!
    3. Kim Jong II: Nobody does!
    – Submitted by Jacob I (21 months ago)
    1. Spottswoode: Remember! There is no 'I' in team America!
    2. I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E.: Yes there is.
    – Submitted by Nick D (2 years ago)

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