Team America review...

[chrisbishop]

(... which is very personal and you may not agree with anyway).

I went to see "Team America: World Police", last week-end.

Phew... NOT a bad movie at all - but NOT a movie for just anybody. If you don't mind crude language, crude jokes, crude and explicit scenes (really, even if it's just PUPPETS!!!! ) and do want to spend a nice 1h30 laughing - then this movie is for you. An advice: DON'T bring any children! If you are easily offended - stay away. This is a movie from the gang who gave us South Park, so you should have a good idea of what you'll have – and that’s EXACTLY what you'll get. Pure evil , crude, non-politically correct, sometime bad-taste , rebellious, wacky, amusing, delightful entertainment. À la South Park.

I liked it. It made a nice change.

I heard that, well before it was released, there had been some reserve and criticism over the movie - political criticism, most of it (something saying that "Terrorism is a serious matter, you shouldn't LAUGH at it, people are dying every day fighting terrorism...") Right. Okay. But if we follow that logic, we shouldn't use terrorism either as subject in ANY action movie starring Arnold Swartzenegger or Bruce Willis - we shouldn't make money over terrorism, right? Or for that matter, we shouldn't make any movie - whatever the kind - of any part of Christian religion (or any religion). Of the devil. Of World War II, or any war ever fought on this planet. Of the Challenger tragedy. The list can go on.

Rubbish, right? Think of this movie as an exorcism. It’s a FUNNY movie, nothing else. EVERYONE got splashed in this irreverent movie. Gung-ho fighters, foreigners, politicians, actors, peace activists, terrorists… You name it. But in the end, the gung-ho fighters ended up under the best of light (under the circumstances…). So in my book – it does look like an eulogy to those who, on the ground, are fighting the good fight. How is that as an answer to those who judged the movie before it was out?

And if you’re looking for a message in it – well, there might be one, but it might not be the one you think. The way it appears, Mr. Parker and Mr. Stone would think that extremists of any kind – for war or for peace - are the same. And they’ve been treated equally in the movie.

Oh right… Not anybody is the same, actually. I learned a lesson of sociology while viewing that movie:

There’s three kinds of people on this Earth. The d**ks, the p**sies, and the as***les.

If you want to know more, go see the movie.

Thanks, Mr. Stone and Mr. Parker (who probably have been banned for life from the Actors Guild!) for a very entertaining movie.

May the Force be with you…