After reading Roger Friedman’s tantalizing review of the new movie ‘Team America’: Sex, Puppets & Controversy, I’m dying to see it.
Try to imagine, if you will, a movie that in its first few minutes offends just about everyone who’s watching it.
Then you have “Team America: World Police,” the new outrageous and controversial new comedy from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of “South Park.”
Even as we speak, several prominent Hollywood actors may be calling their lawyers to check on slander laws. GLAAD is certainly drafting a press release condemning the film, and North Korean madman Kim Jong II may have a case as well.
[…] “Team America,” as you may know, is performed by marionettes à la the great British animated puppeteer Gerry Anderson’s TV shows of the early ’60s, such as “Thunderbirds,” “Supercar” and “Fireball XL5.”
[…] The plot: In short, a CIA-type organization hires a Broadway musical actor to pretend to be an Arab terrorist and infiltrate terrorist organizations. (In the end, the world is safe, the movie claims, thanks to brilliant acting. Ouch.)
“Team America,” you see, boldly goes where no one has gone before, sending up post-9/11 terrorism, Arabs, Koreans, the CIA and liberal-minded Hollywood actors all at the same time.
[…] Still, in the first few minutes, we get Gary, our Broadway star, performing a song called “Everyone Has AIDS” in a musical named “Lease.” (That’s a parody of “Rent,” wink wink.)
(Thanks to Tony Diehl for the link.)
1:42 pm on October 5, 2004
