DVD Review HTF REVIEW: Team America: World Police (Unrated Version) (1 Viewer)

[Inspector Hammer!]

Not really. How else was I supposed to let you know that your comment didn't sit well with me? I also didn't elaborate further.

Anyway, apology accepted.

I think I finally put my finger on what it is about this film that bothers me, it reminds me of a hard-core porno movie. I'm not much into porn, but this film takes on that same filthy have-to-shower-after-watching-it feel. In fact, if the puppets had genetalia, they probably would have shown that too.

 

[Inspector Hammer!]

Absolutely, Scott.

 

[CraigF]

Ohhhh my, this better be good after all this hype! I want lots of ***** and ******** and there better be some *****!*******. And puppets! Never too many puppets. I hope it's not too realistic, like all those other Hollywood movies I've seen.


(No offense to anybody, I'm just fooling around.)

 

[Jay Pennington]

John and Scott:

 

[David Galindo]

Jay:

Couldnt resist.

 

[Inspector Hammer!]

David,
I thought that you HTF Reviewers always stuck together?

Seriously, if your giving thumbs up to Jay about that absurd "eluded by..." comment, than there's nothing I can say except that your wrong, and so is the member who originally said it, the one that Jay quoted.

I've been watching comedies all my life and love and appreciate all types, shallow toilet humor, intelligent comedies, black comedies, you name it. So please, enough with this broad, not to mention presumptuous, labeling that people just are not "getting" some hidden things in the film that may make it funnier or better.

Nothing eluded me, I got it, I got that it's a film that tried REALLY hard to cause me to keel over with laughter only to end up just grossing me out in the end.

 

[David Galindo]

Now hold on there. I was giving Jay a thumbs up for giving two others thumbs up.

It was a lame attempt at a joke. I apologize. I dont agree with Jay, for the record.

 

[Inspector Hammer!]

Alright, that's cool, but you didn't clearify. It had crossed my mind that you may have been giving thumbs up to Jay because he gave thumbs up to Scott and myself, but then I thought "why would anyone do something like that? It's kinda wierd to give thumbs up to someone elses thumbs up." and naturally concluded that you were giving thumbs up to his earlier comment.

I guess i'm just all thumbs tonight.

 

[Jay Pennington]

I was just trying to show some goodwill after my rudeness.

 

[Inspector Hammer!]

Your cool, Jay, don't worry about it.

 

[Matt Stone]

Some people don't like the movie, some people do. What's the big deal?

 

[Kevin M]

Oh sure, Matt Stone would say that.

Personally I find the "gross out" material to be infrequent and certainly non-distracting from the social/entertainment/political satire throughout the film, I laughed a lot....perhaps not quite as much as with some of their other films & shows but more so than with most hollywood by-the-numbers "comedies".

 

[Jeff(R)]

This was a very entertaining DVD and my friends all enjoyed it. I searched the web looking for Team America action figures (and related items) and noticed that they do not exist - what a missed merchandising opportunity! BTW, I thought this was interesting:

 

[Ronald Epstein]

I'm coming in on page 4, but what the heck...

Finally saw this film the other day.

Really enjoyed it! I'm a huge South Park
fan so I am very much in tune with Trey and
Matt's humor.

Frankly, I thought the film was brilliant!
None of it could truly be appreciated unless
you watched the supplemental material which
really gives insight into just how massive
and difficult a project this was. Here was
a film that not only featured a handful of
marionettes on screen at once, but all of
them set against a backdrop of engrossing
high-octane action. The mere fact that the
puppeteers were able to pull off much of
what they did is incredible -- especially for
the fact that Trey and Matt often quickly
changed the puppet choreography after it had
been rehearsed for hours.

Sure, the film is absolutely obscene but
it's the kind of film that many of us only
dreamed of making as young boys who experimented
with Ken and Barbie dolls.

Something I have come to appreciate in Trey
and Matt's films are the original songs. Who
can forget the side-splitting songs that came
out of the South Park movie. In Team
America, Trey and Matt take things one step
further with patriotic songs that define their
American attitude or take potshots at Michael
Bay, Ben Affleck and that horrible Pearl Harbor
movie.

It's rather a shame that Team America
didn't do better at the box office than expected.

 

[Tom Brennan]

A bit of a double standard here since Airplane literally has shit hitting the fan at one point.

 

[Inspector Hammer!]

There's no double standard. Better shit hitting the fan in a quick and funny shot, than shit hitting (or should I say pouring) someone's face during nasty puppet sex in a long lingering shot.

If the last line of my post is the only line you had an issue with, why feel the need to quote the whole thing?

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Guys, let's keep the debate friendly.

 

[Inspector Hammer!]

Na, Ron, you got me all wrong I was merely curious is all. I should have worded it differently I guess as it could read as hostile, but I assure you it wasn't.

 

[Todd Robertson]

Guilty!

Thanks Ron....thats exactly right. The film is not in my top faves...nor do I really care for South Park all that much....but this film is hilarious and was a tough project to pull off. Great job!

 

[Jay Pennington]

Do these pysche-operators miss the irony of the song? Do they not realize they're playing into the Ugly American perception, and thus defeating their own goals, by doing that? Sigh...