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one is hard to score, since it's a puppet movie that lampoons every
Bruckheimer-esque action film ever made, as well as the fact that it's
actually a movie starring puppets. Marionettes, to be more specific.
Made by Matt and Trey of South Park fame, Team America is
awesomely-obscene, completely ridiculous, and frequently hilarious. It's
also rather challenging to get into, since you have to just buy into the
fact that they're puppets, on visible strings, on sets that are
obviously about two feet high. It took me a while, and I was bored early
on with all of the exposition and such, but I began to enjoy the movie
halfway through, and I laughed a lot during the last half hour.This is one that's either going to work for you, or not, without a lot of middle ground. I can see watching this one a few times and liking it more each time, as it gets easier and easier to suspend my disbelief and astonishment. And I can also imagine a person making it through ten minutes before storming away and cursing about it being the stupidest movie he/she has ever seen. To the scores: Team America, 2004 Team America is
stupid, awesomely so, but that's all intentional. Every character is a
broadly-drawn stereotype taken straight from other cheesy action movies,
and almost every event is much the same. The titular Team America chases
comically-cliche terrorists and blows up most of the world's major
landmarks in their efforts to stop the WMD-packing, bearded,
turban-wearing bad guys. In every case, as they stand in the smoking
ruins of Paris, or beside the rubble heaps they reduced the Sphinx and
Pyramids to, they give each other high fives and celebrate, with no
remorse, regret, or even any comprehension of what they're doing. |
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