The guilty pleasure of 'Team America'

Washington Times ^ | 5/27/05

[rlmorel]

Ummm...because it is a vulgar comic book?

My wife once watched "A Clockwork Orange", and said afterwards that she didn't get it, that it was just random violence. I told her that she got it, and didn't even know it. That was the whole point. With "Team America", I heard someone say that it is just so politically incorrect that it cannot be watched. I told them they got the gist of the movie right there.

No, really, there is some great satire in there. Hey. It isn't deep. But it is funny! I do believe in aiming your satire to the level of the target of your satire, but I suspect, with respect to liberals, the producers did not aim quite low enough.

[.30Carbine]

I was laughing so hard I was crying. My husband kept turning to me with astonishment written all over his face exclaiming, "I can't believe you like this movie!"

I couldn't believe I liked it either. (;

[E Rocc]

I love it. It is my favorite file of 2004. I have sent copies to Iraq.

Hell, there were bootleg copies for sale in Baghdad while the movie was still in the theaters here.

-Eric

[E Rocc]

It's a Fat Socialist Weasel.

-Eric

[LizardQueen]

I adored this movie - it's absolutely hilarious and completely and totally vile. I saw it 2x in the theaters (2nd time had to bring DH, who didn't want to go with us the first time) and then bought the DVD the day it came out.

The diff between the theatre and the "unrated" version, from what I can tell, is a nasty addition to the "puppet sex" scene.

My favorite scene is the where they release the "panthers" onto the 2 Team America members. So as not to spoil it for anyone who hasnt seen it yet, I won't tell you what those panthers actually are.

It's definitely best the first time through, because of the pure shock of it mixed with the comedy. But the DVD is worth it to see how they did it.

I agree it deserved some Oscars but after what it did to Hollywood (F.A.G.!) there's no way they would let them have any.

LQ

[schwing_wifey]

Thanks for the insight... I've asked my in-laws to purchase this and bring it to Europe when they come to see us around the end of the month. (We're on assignment/adventure.)

When my husband saw it on the list of stuff to pickup for us, he just looked at me questioningly since he didn't remember hearing about it.

I've heard good and I've heard bad about it but this posting makes me want to see it all the more (or Moore).

[TNCMAXQ]

I am a huge Phil Hendrie fan so I had to see the film when I heard Phil was doing some of the voices.

I think I got the biggest laugh out of the Broadway musical parody and the song "Everybody's got AIDS!" LOL.

[RightWingAtheist]

Maatt Daaamon!

[scottinoc]

Remember, there's no "I" in Team America...well, actually there is one near the end...a small one

[gopwinsin04]

'Everyone's got AIDS...even spades!'

[rabidralph]

LOL! Now I remember that scene.

[rabidralph]

*giggle* bears repeating. "Maatt Daaamon!"

[Mercat]

After a particularly nasty hearing in a particularly nasty divorce case, I confronted the other attorney in the hallway and chewed him up one side and down the other about honor and integrity and accusing him of having any shred of concern for the 6 year old girl in the case. As I talked, he got redder and redder and the muscles in his face twitched. I never raised my voice and I never used any language which could be deemed offensive. After I had finished, he called me a cun* and walked off. He's a federal judge now. But his wife wears Christmas sweaters in February. LOL

[Mr. Jeeves]

Well, the "NC-17" footage adds nothing to the film - it actually hurts it quite a bit, unless you think water sports and corprophilia are appropriate subjects for satire. The "R" theatrical version is better. Still, destroying Paris and Cairo in the first thirty minutes makes the film a worthy work of art. ;)

When I saw it in the theater, it must have been "divorced dads' day with the kids", because there were a lot of four- and five-year-olds there with their fathers to see "the puppet movie." I'll bet they learned some interesting new words to repeat to Mom when they got home...LOL!

[schwing_wifey]

This is really beginning to drive me nuts! I can't wait to see it but how to go about that with the parents here? ...hmmmm.... got to start planning now.....

I know my son won't be allowed to watch it but I think I better watch it before allowing my husband's parents to see it....maybe even before I allow my husband to see it... heh heh

[Dead Dog]

It's a message more profound that any thought that has crossed Barbra Streisand's mind, yet it is cloaked in non PC vulgarity. That to me is the joke, proving absolute baseness is still intellectually superior to liberals.

[vollmond]

Gary: A limousine that can fly? Now I have seen everything!
Spottswoode: Have you seen a man eat his own head?
Gary: No.
Spottswoode: Then you haven't seen everything.

Still makes me chuckle.

[tgslTakoma]

We watched the DVD over the weekend. It was hilarious. But I should have been prepared for the language and explicit scenes when a screen warned me of profanity, violence and sexually graphic scenes involving puppets, at the beginning of the DVD. But I chuckled at the warning instead. But things as they are, somebody who bought the DVD didn't realize that they picked up the uncut version. I never thought that puppetry could be so explicit ("How did they do that?!). So, if you're going to show it to the in-laws or your teenaged daughter, you may want to get the tamer version - or make sure your CPR card is current.

All in all, it was a very good movie, slapping the tar out of the arrogant Hollywood elite. No wonder they were so offended by it.

:-)

[discostu]

To Damon's credit from what Parker says Damon is the only actor they satirize in the movie who contacted them and said he liked it. Sean Penn hated it, and nobody else has contacted them.

[fanfan]

"Here, you may need this"

ROFLOL.