Team America: World Police
Boy oh boy I wanted to like 2004's TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE. I consider myself a big fan of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, of course best known for South Park. I was even forgiving of BASEKETBALL. This time, a sound idea succeeds only as a vehicle through which to frame the story, not in the actual attempted delivery of satire. At least not all of the time. Or even most. Huh? Parker and Stone decided to tell their story an American counter-terrorist team (whose HQ is inside Mount Rushmore) via the use of electronic marionettes, the kind seen on the '60s TV show Thunderbirds. A crack team of experts who recruit a Broadway actor to help them thwart a new threat to the free world. It's an amusing notion that grows tedious within minutes. It might've helped if the script was funny. The guys (co-writing with Pam Brady) spent quite a while concocting this parody of Jerry Bruckheimer type action spectacles, wh...
