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Published On: Oct 08, 2008 10:45 PM
"Team America: World Police" Review
The Professor gives it a
B-.
A
brief summary: Team America saves the world from terrorism -- destroying much of
it in the process.
This movie IS funny. If you're American, you have to laugh. Otherwise, you'd go out and shoot yourself for shame for being part of this culture. There is hardly an aspect of the American view of the Universe that is not lambasted, along with every action movie cliche, from Star Wars and Men In Black, to American-style martial arts movies, Indiana Jones movies... Die Hard, Rocky, ...heck, name it. It also makes fun of film conventions from whatever genre.
In its way, this movie is FAR more political than Fahrenheit 9/11 or any propaganda film. It's saying that America IS a vulgar joke that destroys the world it pretends to protect. It derides our oversimplification of issues. It ridicules our megalomaniacal conviction that we're supposed to be the world police, whether violently or through other means. It shreds our even more oversimplified and cliche-ridden treatment of violence and human relationships as presented in our popular movies.
After sitting through the puppet sex scene, I don't think I'll be able to watch a gratuitous sex scene again without laughing.
It is painful to sit through. Even as I was laughing, I was cringing and in some places covering my eyes. Had I not gone with someone else, I might well have walked out -- as I had gotten the message in the first 10 minutes.
And that's why I rated it down. It uses "shock humor" to make its point -- again, and again... and again. I really didn't need to see puppet sex. I didn't need to see a puppet lying passed out in an impossibly large pool of its own vomit (been there, done that; at one point had the t-shirt.) Nevertheless, I do recommend that you see it -- once. You might want to wait for the DVD, though, unless shock humor is your preference.
This movie IS funny. If you're American, you have to laugh. Otherwise, you'd go out and shoot yourself for shame for being part of this culture. There is hardly an aspect of the American view of the Universe that is not lambasted, along with every action movie cliche, from Star Wars and Men In Black, to American-style martial arts movies, Indiana Jones movies... Die Hard, Rocky, ...heck, name it. It also makes fun of film conventions from whatever genre.
In its way, this movie is FAR more political than Fahrenheit 9/11 or any propaganda film. It's saying that America IS a vulgar joke that destroys the world it pretends to protect. It derides our oversimplification of issues. It ridicules our megalomaniacal conviction that we're supposed to be the world police, whether violently or through other means. It shreds our even more oversimplified and cliche-ridden treatment of violence and human relationships as presented in our popular movies.
After sitting through the puppet sex scene, I don't think I'll be able to watch a gratuitous sex scene again without laughing.
It is painful to sit through. Even as I was laughing, I was cringing and in some places covering my eyes. Had I not gone with someone else, I might well have walked out -- as I had gotten the message in the first 10 minutes.
And that's why I rated it down. It uses "shock humor" to make its point -- again, and again... and again. I really didn't need to see puppet sex. I didn't need to see a puppet lying passed out in an impossibly large pool of its own vomit (been there, done that; at one point had the t-shirt.) Nevertheless, I do recommend that you see it -- once. You might want to wait for the DVD, though, unless shock humor is your preference.
Posted: Sat - October 23, 2004 at 10:01 AM | | | | |