Team America World Police

If it comes from the creators behind South Park (Trey Parker and Matt Stone), you kind of already know what your getting yourself into- you already know it's gonna lean a tad towards the taboo, South Park is usually take no prisoners (at the time of writing this- Isaac Hayes whose voiced Chef for years quit because of the recent Scientology episode) and Team America is clearly influenced by the work of Gerry Anderson (it's amazing to think an idea like this wasn't done before).

Team America is about a global police force dedicated to maintaining global stability who recruit Broadway actor Gary Johnstone to go undercover and learning that power hungry North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il is out to destroy the world. Team America is a funny movie, the film from the first second is a piss take of the Hollywood big budget movies, most notably Michael Bay- and gleefully in the opening scene destroys Paris landmarks, the songs are pretty good (Everybody has Aids, America Fuck Yeah, etc) which is not unexpected after South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut and the appearances of the anti-war celebrities- The Film Actor's Guild (which stands for F.A.G) political opinions aside is pretty damn funny- You've got Michael Moore, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Matt Damon (very, very funny) and all host of others- at least you can call it an equal rights attack and it is as really a memorable sex scene.

Parker and Stone have made a decent film with some very funny moments, whilst I'm never going to consider this the greatest comedy ever made, it was good for a chuckle or two (like South Park I guess) and really worth a watch.

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