Product Description

In TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE, a group of marionette puppets form Team America, an international police force dedicated to maintaining global stability. Discovering that a power hungry dictator, Kim Jong II, plans to destroy the world and is brokering weapons of mass destruction to terrorists, the team enlists the undercover help of Broadway star Gary Johnston and embarks on a harrowing mission to save the world. Opposed to this, is the Film Actors' Guild, or F.A.G., whose members include puppets representing actors Alec Baldwin, Tim Robbins, Matt Damon, Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. In spite of the lack of support they receive, the team sticks to their plan of saving the world and putting an end to terrorism.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1791 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-05-17
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Animated, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: Arabic, English, French, Korean
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 98 minutes

Amazon.com
An elite U.S. counter-terrorism squad loses a member while decimating half of Paris in the reckless pursuit of Middle Eastern maniacs; a Broadway actor with a traumatic childhood secret is naturally hired to replace him. Oh--and they're all marionettes. South Park maestros Trey Parker and Matt Stone (along with co-writer Pam Brady) came up with this shameless satire of pea-brained Hollywood action flicks and even smaller-minded global politics, so don't expect subtlety or even a hint of good taste. Team America is soon on the trail of North Korea's evil Kim Jong Il, who treats us to a tender song about his loneliness before ensnaring Alec Baldwin and the rest of the oblivious Film Actors Guild (F.A.G. for short) in a plot to blow up every major city on the planet. Just as the mindless squad cheerfully demolishes everything in sight, so do director Parker and company. Throwing punches Left, Right, and in-between, the movie's politics leave no turn un-stoned; there's even time to bludgeon the musical Rent. It's offensive, irresponsible comic anarchy seemingly made by sniggering little boys. Painfully funny sniggering little boys.--Steve Wiecking

From The New Yorker
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the unruly spirits behind the "South Park" series, return with their second feature film, a satirical extravaganza with an all-puppet cast. The puppets have large, lambent eyes, and, compared to some Hollywood stars, their faces are actually very expressive. Parker and Stone have a lot of devious fun with their helpless toys: they blow them up, feed them to fish, and capture them in gymnastic moments of intimacy (this last stunt almost earned the film an NC-17 rating). The story has a team of U.S. Special Forces flying out of their base inside Mt. Rushmore to find weapons of mass destruction, a scenario that provides plenty of opportunity to mock G.I. Joe heroism, where America is always coming to save the day! Parker and Stone's recklessness has (and evokes) a certain giddiness, but this is satire delivered via body blows. The best moments are the subtler scenes about the craft of acting (which turns out to be a crucial weapon against terrorists), and the songs, with their improbable lyrics. The movie's surreal high point may be a puppet pining for his true love while crooning about Michael Bay. -Michael Agger
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

The worset movie ever viewed
What the movie is about, from what I gathered, is a team (World Police) that wants to kill off the terrorists. They want to recruit someone, and well, basically if you think of the typical format, you have the movie. guy comes in, doesn't want to join, later decides to, runs off, other guys in trouble, he comes back, has to save the day, and does.
I am Conversation, and this is mostly bashing left wing liberals, but that didn't make a difference. This movie was horrible. If I was home, I would have turned this off within the first 15 minutes of it, but I was a sisters house and I didn't have my car with me (under repairs), I there I sat, a whole 98 minutes of garbage.
Watch American Carol with Kevin Farley. It's a ton better! That was a funny film. But this, way too vulgar, too stupid, no real creative, a very mature nude/love making scene. Too potty mouth!
avoid!

THUNDERBIRDS on crack!
If you're expecting high brow cinema from this flick, you outta have your head examined! Of course it's crude and vulgar! Of course it's out of bounds! That's the whole point, silly! It's like getting offended at a Don Rickles show!

Personally, I loved it! The "America, f*=@# yeah" gung-ho anthem is a riot. So is the "I'm so ronery" bit, the towel turbaned guy, the puppet sex scene (make sure you get the unrated edition) and the F.A.G. jokes. Tasteless? Sure. Dead on target? Hillariously so. Politically inccorrect? Thank God, yes! Is that why so many of you are upset? I thought so...

MAAAAAAATT DAAAAAMON!!! (he, he, he!) Get a life!

unwatchable
Full disclosure: I only lasted about 30 minutes (for you fans, I got as far as "dirka dirka dirka," or something that sounded like that). So this isn't a review of the whole thing.

Combine the soulless, nasty humor of South Park with puppet action lacking any trace of style or creativity and what do you get? This tedious, smug little bomb of a movie. Visually it has the creepy feel of that awful CGI Christmas movie Tom Hanks dumped a bunch of money into a few years ago, combined with the SP tradition of writers so pleased with their own political incorrectness that they don't notice they just aren't very funny. Add to that strange leaden pacing that inserts a second or two of dead sound after every line of dialog--I guess you're supposed to be laughing or something--and the whole thing just falls apart. At least for the first half hour! After that, for all I know it's the greatest work of art since Michaelangelo finished painting the Sistine Chapel. I, at least, will never know.