Team America trailer looks great! by Succatash

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Team America trailer looks great!

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Saturday, July 31, 2004 10:13 AM

This movie should be funny, what do you all think?

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/team_america/

"Gott kann dich nicht vor mir beschuetzen, weil ich nicht boese bin."

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Saturday, July 31, 2004 12:18 PM

DARKJESTER

I think you're spot-on, Tash! "Delta Force" meets "Captain Scarlet". Should be a hoot!

MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

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Sunday, September 19, 2004 10:54 AM

CONSCIENCE

Apparently one critic who read the script, described it as "the funniest anti-liberal movie ever made".

In the film, Alec Baldwin gets elected president and America is immediately invaded by North Korea. While this is happening Hollywood celebrities go out of their way to take the anti-America side, as they usually do.

Anybody But Nader!

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Sunday, September 19, 2004 12:25 PM

TMURRIE

I really can't wait for it to come out, it looks really funny. Hey terroists! terrorize this! boom

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Sunday, September 19, 2004 3:00 PM

EBONEZER

I saw the teaser trailer in the theater and it started by listing your a-list actors, I think George Clooney was one of them. Then it started getting into names like Micheal Moore, Alan Greenspan, Dick Cheney, and George W. Bush (and of corse everybody in the audence is like WTF?) then it says 'Are gonna be really, really angry'

It was great.

Just thought I'd share.

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Monday, September 20, 2004 8:28 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

It looks hi-larious to me. The wife and I are planning on seeing it when it hits the big screen.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

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Monday, September 20, 2004 10:45 AM

CREVANREAVER

From what I've heard and read about the film, it'll be a humorous alternative to Michael Moore's Fakenheit 9/11!

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Monday, October 4, 2004 6:08 AM

GHOULMAN

The Southpark creators have always had a keen sociological eye... I'd watch this movie!

Thanks for pointing it out Succatash!

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Tuesday, October 5, 2004 10:07 AM

CREVANREAVER

Here is a review of the movie:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134467,00.html

South Park' Makers: Sex, Puppets and Controversy

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.

I saw this film over the weekend, quite by accident, although it is not nearly ready yet to be seen. And believe it or not, "Team America" opens next Friday.

I'm told that at this weekend's press junket in Los Angeles, writers were shown only a 20-minute reel of highlights because there was no finished print.

"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."

In those shows, benign puppets dressed as space men or scientists bounced along merrily with their strings showing. It was part of the appeal, and the shows are still popular on DVD. I have a personal affection for "Supercar."

Parker and Stone have taken this concept — I don't know if they had to license it from Anderson — and gone one better.

Instead of making a live-action movie like the latest version of "Thunderbirds," which was a box-office failure this summer, they devised their own plot and characters.

What if they made a Jerry Bruckheimer-like action movie that was really a spoof, with lots of explosions, coarse, vulgar language and enough offbeat sexual situations to rile the MPAA?

This is a movie so rough that should, by some strange happenstance, its theme song be nominated for an Oscar — as "Blame Canada" was from the "South Park" movie — there is no way it could actually be performed at the Academy Awards.

In some respects, it's hard to believe that Paramount Pictures — home in the last decade of "Forest Gump" and "The Hours" — is releasing this film. You have to give producer Scott Rudin credit; he's a brave man.

"Team America" is certainly destined to be a cult classic, but it may have a rocky road getting to that status. Watching the movie means being slack-jawed for its 90-minute running time.

When I saw it over the weekend, the only other person in the screening room kept looking around to make sure a.) I was all right and b.) that we were really seeing what we were seeing.

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.

The one group that seems to escape total comic annihilation is the current presidential candidates. And that's just as well.

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.)

When you realize the refrain is "Everyone has AIDS, white folks and also spades," you see the direction we're headed in.

Before long, Gary is recruited by the CIA to join Team America, a sort of "Mission: Impossible" squad designed to thwart terrorists. Gary (who would be played by Keanu Reeves if he weren't a puppet) falls for the female leader of Team America, a saucy blonde.

The two puppets have a wild sex scene set, in the version I saw, to Aerosmith's "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" — the love theme of Bruckheimer's "Armageddon" — in which full androgynous plastic nudity is unbound. But so are the lovemakers' positions. It's an astounding use of inanimate objects.

Scene after scene, "Team America" goes over the top. Whether it's language or just simple suggestion of vulgar acts, "Team America" never hesitates to outdo its preceding scene.

I can't repeat all the words to the theme song that spoofs patriotism, "America [Expletive], Yeah!," but you get the gist of it. Needless to say, teenage boys will be enthralled by the endless graphic references to oral sex and the scatological.

But Parker and Stone have also added another element: a team of Hollywood actors who descend on Korea (I think) for a misguided peace conference. The group of air-headed puppets, led by Alec Baldwin, is dubbed the Film Actors Guild (and referred to by its unfortunate acronym).

Among Baldwin's liberal associates are usual suspects Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Danny Glover, Janeane Garofalo, George Clooney, Ethan Hawke, Matt Damon and a few who seem like they were thrown in for no reason: Helen Hunt, Samuel L. Jackson and Liv Tyler.

I am told that none of these actors gave permission for their likenesses to be used. Most will not be amused by their depictions.

Baldwin, in particular, comes in for a lot of baiting, as he is often referred to facetiously as "the greatest actor in the world." Luckily, the real Alec has a sense of humor. Hopefully, Sarandon won't mind when she gets her head blown off.

But not just movie stars come in for skewering. The Parker/Stone version of Kim Jong II nearly overtakes the film as the terrorist-hunting switches from the Arab world to Korea. Sort of a Dr. Evil meets Elmer Fudd, this Kim Jong II is easily the film's funniest creation, simply because he is so unlikable in real life.

The movie version is more Looney Tunes than "Fritz the Cat" and that's where "Team America" really succeeds. It also helps that David Rockwell's puppet-sized sets, particularly the Korean palace, are spectacular creations full of surprises and witty sideshows.

There's more and there's Moore in "Team America," including a Michael Moore puppet, a stretch DeLorean, a hollowed-out Mount Rushmore used as the Team America lair, and, of course, more irreverent songs, including one devoted to Bruckheimer director Michael Bay and his godawful blockbuster "Pearl Harbor."

Paris, most of Egypt and plenty of other landmarks are blown up, all so Team America can, as their credo goes, "put the F back in freedom."

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Tuesday, October 5, 2004 11:00 AM

GHOULMAN

Wow, a positive FOX review... is it just me or did the writer not "get it".

Also... why did he refer to sex as "vulgar acts"? Are we living in the 50s?!?!?!

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Wednesday, October 6, 2004 5:18 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

Funny & irreverent. I love it! I will be checking this out when it hits theatres.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

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Wednesday, October 6, 2004 9:12 AM

HOBBES

For anyone interested it sneaks this saturday, a day before critics see it in NY :)

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May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May you be in heaven an hour before
The Devil knows you’re dead.

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Wednesday, October 6, 2004 11:48 AM

CREVANREAVER

Quote:
Originally posted by Hobbes:
For anyone interested it sneaks this saturday...

And just in time for this release, it will not get an NC-17 rating.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=6654

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Saturday, October 9, 2004 12:35 PM

CREVANREAVER

Well it looks like the idiot celebrities are already coming out to condemn this movie and attack Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

http://www.drudgereport.com/penn.htm

This I do to Sean Penn....

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Monday, October 11, 2004 1:48 PM

CONSCIENCE

Quote:
Originally posted by CrevanReaver:
This I do to Sean Penn....

I'm right there with you.

Fuck Sean Penn and all of his buddies in the Film Actors Guild, FAG!

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20041011/D85LFSGG0.html

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Monday, October 11, 2004 3:12 PM

DROCCULARI

*** Mild Spoiler ***

I caught the sneak preview Saturday night, and all I have to say is, if one of those guys has the guts to give the d***s, p*****s, and a******s speech at this Wednesday's presidential debate, he gets my vote!

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Tuesday, October 12, 2004 10:53 AM

CONSCIENCE

At this Wednesday's debate, if one of those guys has the guts to come out and say FUCK YOU to all those hollywood left-wing lunatics, they will instantly get my vote.

http://www.celiberal.com/
http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/hollywoodceleb/
http://www.boycottliberalism.com/
http://www.pabaah.com/

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Tuesday, October 12, 2004 11:03 AM

SHIBBY69354

I saw the sneak preview of the movie and it was really hi-larious everyone should c it

http://browncoats.serenitymovie.com/serenity/index.html?fuseaction=too
ls.invlink&u=Shibby69354&linkID=36

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Tuesday, October 12, 2004 6:25 PM

SHINYHAPPYKLIN

I saw the sneak too....O...M...G....!!!!

The rating just *barely* squeaks by as a "R"...the wanton puppet violence (not the sex, that was hi-larious) is really what was somehow more disturbing than if it had been done to people!

F

k yeah!....it sends up "cowboy diplomacy", rampant patriotism, and every "Ugly American" stereotype you can think of, while still lambasting liberals at every turn. Throw in a hefty helping of James Bond, Saturday morning cartoons, and cheesy porno and adventure flicks, and ah, it's something for everyone....a comedy tonight! (sorry, Zero Mostel flashback there...

)

"We gotta go to that crappy town where I'M a hero..."
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Wednesday, October 13, 2004 2:59 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

Glad to see that it gets the SHK seal of approval.

The wife & I won free passes to catch the movie tonight at an advance screening. We are looking forward to it.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

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Wednesday, October 13, 2004 5:49 PM

SHINYHAPPYKLIN

Quote:
Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
Glad to see that it gets the SHK seal of approval.

The wife & I won free passes to catch the movie tonight at an advance screening. We are looking forward to it.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

So...how did you and the wife like it??? (BTW, tell her I said "HI!!")

"We gotta go to that crappy town where I'M a hero..."
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Thursday, October 14, 2004 3:42 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

Quote:
Originally posted by shinyhappyklin:
So...how did you and the wife like it??? (BTW, tell her I said "HI!!")

We loved it! It was ruttin' hi-larious! I laughed nearly through the whole thing. I may pick it up on DVD to have around for those nights when I need a good laugh.

Autumn says "hi" right back at you.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

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Saturday, October 16, 2004 5:19 AM

DIETCOKE

Just saw the show last night. Too funny!!! Haven't laughed that hard at a movie in a long time. A little over the top in places, but a overall good satire.

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Saturday, October 16, 2004 8:44 AM

EBONEZER

AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!

OMG, this was so great. It had this perfect balace of taking itself too seriously, while not taking itself seriously at all.

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Monday, October 18, 2004 1:49 PM

HKCAVALIER

Hmmm... I have kinda mixed feelings about it. I've loved pretty much everything they've ever done so far, so maybe my expectations were a leeettle high going in.

Just didn't find the satire of the actors as sharp as their usual standard. Jeneane Garofalo says, "We just repeat what we read in the newspapers as if we thought of it ourselves" (a bit of a paraphrase)--huh? This is a crime? This is particularly stupid or hypocritical? None of the actor stuff seemed very pointed at all, now that I think about it. I think you'd have to be a really egomaniacal celeb to take any of it very personally. This from the creators of Mecha-Streisand? As Cartman would say, "...weak."

So I'd say I found it half totally hilarious and half kinda horrible. "Hey, I got an idea, you know how the extreme right is always saying that the left supports terrorism and is playing right into the terrorists' hands by supporting peace? Let's make a movie where that comes true, won't that be a laugh!" It would have been a lot funnier if they were all out spies in league with Canada to overthrow the American government.

Loved the personal issues of Team America members though! "I treasure your friendship, Chris" "I treasure your friendship, too, Lisa." Loved Kim Jong Il's big solo (and the one at the end of the credits). And you gotta love the vomit scene (I finally understand the phrase "passed out in a pool of his own vomit").

HKCavalier

Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

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Monday, October 18, 2004 2:31 PM

BIKISDAD

I haven't seen it yet, but Ebert and Roeper split on it over the weekend. I liked Roeper's position more, though (he was "thumbs-up"), so I'll probably go see it.

Apathy on the Rise. No One Cares.

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Monday, October 18, 2004 2:58 PM

TMURRIE

I can now say what the funniest movie ever made was. Oh god, the barfing scene, I nearly fell off my seat from laughter, literally.

What I'm trying to say is Pearl Harbor sucked, and I miss you.

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Wednesday, October 20, 2004 12:04 PM

CAPTAINCDC

I can't remember the last time I laughed as hard as I did watching this movie. I loved all of the Kim Jong Il parts and everything about the actors and acting in general, and the sex scene had me in stitches. But the songs may have been the best part for me. I mean writing an entire song about how bad Pearl Harbor: The Movie sucked, priceless.

Someone above mentioned Ebert & Roeper reviewing the movie. I did not see that show, but I read Ebert's review. He took it way too seriously.

Ka is a wheel, time but a face on the water.

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