Team America: 98 Minutes I'll Never Get Back
All day long today an annoying song has been going through my brain. It goes something like this: (Insert Survivor-like three-chord guitar riff) “America ââ¬â F**k Yeah! We’re gonna save the m****r f*****g day, yeah! America ââ¬â F**k Yeah!” This because I wasted 98 minutes of my life last night on this satirically bold, but predictably profane Trey Parker / Matt Stone offering.
The guys who brought us the hysterical Comedy Central series South Park apparently need the lax standards of late night cable to keep them from going way over the top. When unleashed, this is what they come up with.
To be clear, Team America: World Police (2004) was funny; no question about that. And it was a decent play on Jerry Bruckheimer films and the post 9/11 anxieties around America’s role in the world. What's more, as with the South Park Movie they again managed some very funny tunes - nothing as good as "Blame Canada" and "What Would Brian Boitano Do?," but still quite clever.
But come on!
No sense going on and on about this; as I’ve said I’ve already wasted my time watching this thing, I don’t need to exert any mental energy making a case against marionette porn. Do I?
I love a good laugh, and there were many. But let’s just say, guilty pleasures aside, this one is hard to recommend.
Posted by Bill Stevenson at August 10, 2005 9:12 AM
Comments
But wasn't it fun to see Kim Jong Il make mince meat out of some Hollywood idiots.
Posted by: Michael Kim at August 10, 2005 2:42 PM
Yes. I particularly enjoyed Helen Hunt's demise. Nothing against her, but funny.
Posted by: bill at August 10, 2005 10:33 PM
Three blessed words: Helen Hunt demise. Now I must too have 98 minutes (minus those that deal with the three aforementioned blessed words) of my life force drained. Thanks Bill, thanks a lot...
Posted by: etc. whatever at August 11, 2005 9:41 AM
You might also enjoy the demise (demises?) of Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, Michael Moore, Matt Damon, Susan Sarandon, George Clooney, Danny Glover, Ethan Hawke, Matt Damon, Alec Baldwin & Samuel L. Jackson. So perhaps not a wasted 98 minutes for you.
Posted by: Bill Stevenson at August 11, 2005 11:41 PM
I agree. I thought the songs were funny (even some moments that made me laugh)...but overall I felt like I had lost some brain cells over the course of the movie. I even tried to fall asleep to get out of watching it!!
Posted by: Kelly at July 4, 2006 11:30 AM