Sucked.
No really, that’s all I have to say about this one. It was crap. And this is coming from a guy that indulges in LCD humor from time to time. I still check out “South Park” and I regularly watch “Drawn Together”. A well placed fart joke is never lost on me. But this thing was shite!
I was going to use an image of the old “Thunderbirds” puppet TV show but they looked so much like them that it stopped being funny… So you got the puppet sex picture.
The guys that make South Park made a movie about terrorism and how America is conceited enough to police the world. The whole movie, right down to the explicit sex scenes, is done with marionettes.
The terrorist fighting organization, “Team America” recruits an actor as its newest member. They go on missions causing more collateral damage than John McClane from the “Die Hard” films. The actor quits because he thinks he is causing the mission failures. The team is in trouble, the actor gains the courage to rejoin the team and saves them. Along the way, the Korean president escapes in a rocket, one member of the team is actually a cockroach alien and we get to see two puppets fuck. We get all of the third grade humor of South Park but none of the writing that makes it tolerable. Just a flat out two hour booger-eating endurance run.
The marionettes strings were showing the whole time and that’s one of the things I liked about it, it was supposed to be REALLY cheesy and parody all of the big budget Bruckheimer/Bay films. To apprehend a single terrorist, Team America obliterates all of Paris and then expects the world to thank them. This can be funny, but for some reason wasn’t. The ripping of famous celebrities was mildly humorous but there was really no point in the entire movie that I didn’t feel a horrible shame that someone would peep into my window and catch me watching this. Funny thing is I GET the jokes. I actually think a lot of the parodies were funny; it just never gelled as a movie. Maybe if it were small, ten minute shorts it would have worked. But not as a movie.
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