Sunday, October 17, 2004
Team America: World Police 7/10
Trey Parker & Matt Stone are gods of farce! I really enjoyed Team America. Right from the misguided attempts to save the world to the Bruckheimer-esque jumps from over-the-top violence to over-the-top melodrama & romance.
The songs were hilarious too (as they are in South Park shows & movie). You cannot help but sing "America! F@#k yeah!" when you walk out of the theater.
There was a lot of controversy over the movie. Ebert in particular said that the politcal stance of Stone & Parker was not very clear. Others felt that the movie was conservative with liberal overtones, or some such nonsense. I sort of agree with Ebert actually. While their skewering of film actors & their political campaignings was quite clear, I thought the movie's message of Team America doing more harm than good was sort of muted. It could've been an interesting aspect to develop, but instead it was just shown as shocked faces at the end of an action sequence.
On the whole, I laughed A LOT. But the movie could've done so much better.
The songs were hilarious too (as they are in South Park shows & movie). You cannot help but sing "America! F@#k yeah!" when you walk out of the theater.
There was a lot of controversy over the movie. Ebert in particular said that the politcal stance of Stone & Parker was not very clear. Others felt that the movie was conservative with liberal overtones, or some such nonsense. I sort of agree with Ebert actually. While their skewering of film actors & their political campaignings was quite clear, I thought the movie's message of Team America doing more harm than good was sort of muted. It could've been an interesting aspect to develop, but instead it was just shown as shocked faces at the end of an action sequence.
On the whole, I laughed A LOT. But the movie could've done so much better.
