TEAM AMERICA: World Police

[gp]

"TEAM AMERICA: World Police" is a new movie from Matt & Trey (the southpark guys) featuring live action puppets.

The movie is expected to be released in October 2004.

Check out the full article it sounds amazing!!

<snip from article at aintitcool>

And there are dozens, if not hundreds, of different heads required to bring this cast to life. First of all, there are the members of Team America itself. Chris, Sarah, Lisa, Joe, and Spottiswoode are the long-standing members of the team, and Gary Johnston is a new recruit, a rising Broadway star who helps them with an undercover assignment. Then there’s the film’s main bad guy, Kim Jong Il, the “power-mad dictator” who may be selling Weapons of Mass Destruction to terrorists.

The most remarkable head sculpts belong to the other bad guys in the film. “Actually,” said Trey, “they’re not bad. They’re just really really stupid and misguided.” They’re an organization of Hollywood liberals who are determined to stop Team America from interfering in the affairs of international politics. Alec Baldwin, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, and a permanently mustard-stained Michael Moore are just a few of the celebrities who are going to feel well and truly roasted when they see this film. Even seeing the heads without the film’s puppeteers bringing them to life, they are frighteningly accurate and bitingly funny.

I saw some of the other sets as well. Various sections of Kim Jong Il’s palace were still standing, but I didn’t get to see his bedroom where he evidently belts out his melancholy musical number, “I’m Ronery.” This may not be a full-blown musical a la SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT, but Trey’s written several songs including the theme “Team America! Fuck Yeah!” and an Aerosmith-style power ballad that plays during the puppet sex scene.


full article: http://linux10985.dn.net/display.cgi?id=17970
imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372588

[bryant69]

1. Interesting

On the other hand, one of the South Park guys appeared in Bowling for Columbine.

My guess is that this is a movie that will be viewable on two levels; one as a simplistic heroic movie with a lot of dumb jokes, and secondly as a metephor for the stupid simplistic way america uses its power; in which case throwing in all of us, even liberals, makes sense.

But I could be wrong.

Bryant
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[Khephra]

2. One is an admitted Libertarian

The other...well, I haven't been able to find out.

They attack both sides, but, as I said when I posted this article in the Lounge a week or so ago, they're disappointing me by resorting to a "Michael Moore eating joke". They're more talented than that.

[gp]

3. you did? sorry bout that

must have missed it.

you have a link somwhere?
i'd love to read the comments :)

[bryant69]

4. Libertarians don't really bother me

I don't agree with them, but at least they have an easily understood philosophy and they don't seem as motivated by rage as Conservatives.

There is a bit of a childish aspect of their philosophy which involves leaving out the steps in the middle. It runs like this in their philosophy; 1. We get rid of all the government programs except the Military 2. New private organizations form that take their place and are run much more efficiently and cheaper than governmental body.

What step did they leave out? The one where there is mass confusion and intense suffering as these new programs are set up (and of course the continuing suffering for those people who rely on programs that it's hard to turn a profit on).

The same is with those who think that you can get to a Marxist utopia without, somewhere along the way, someone having the power to force the rich to give up their wealth.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[pocket]

5. make that "Small-l" libertarian

Both are registered repugs. They said so when accepting an award from "People for the American Way", and have admitted it several times in interviews.

[LarryBaker]

6. Apparently they are "South Park Republicans"... (doh!)

http://www.techcentralstation.com/100702A.html

"The answer could very well be the "South Park Republicans." The name stems from the primetime cartoon "South Park" that clearly demonstrates the contrast within the party. The show is widely condemned by some moralists, including members of the Christian right. Yet in spite of its coarse language and base humor, the show persuasively communicates the Republican position on many issues, including hate crime legislation ("a savage hypocrisy"), radical environmentalism, and rampant litigation by ambitious trial lawyers. In one episode, industrious gnomes pick apart myopic anti-corporate rhetoric and teach the main characters about the benefits of capitalism."

I've never really watched the show, so I couldn't attest to the validity of that, but it doesn't exactly make me urge to look up the TV listings for it. Yeah, one of them was in Columbine, but I didn't really know what to make of him. And the Michael Moore food jokes, well, I'm not even gonna dignify that with a commment.

[redqueen]

7. Glad I don't watch that show. n/t