Stars: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Kristen Miller, Masasa, Daran Norris, Phil Hendrie

Director: Trey Parker

Summary: Team America, an international agency intent on maintaining global stability, learn that terrorists, aided by a tyrannical dictator, have hatched a plot to take over the world. Our heroes, accompanied by a Broadway star who realises that his true purpose on Earth is to save it, travel the globe on a mission to thwart the dastardly dictator's plan.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the masterminds behind SOUTH PARK, turn their attention to marionettes and politics in the riotous spoof TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE. Combining the puppetry of the mid-1960s series THUNDERBIRDS with action/disaster flicks produced by Jerry Bruckheimer (TOP GUN, ARMAGEDDON, PEARL HARBOR), Parker and Stone tell the story of a small group of heroic figures who span the globe protecting democracy and freedom against terrorism. Along the way, they destroy such famous international landmarks as the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Sphinx in Egypt, and the Panama Canal. All the while they are developing close relationships that lead to love, jealousy, and betrayal. Their primary mission is to stop North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's peace conference, which is a ruse to allow him to attack the rest of the world with his weapons of mass destruction. Team America must also take on FAG, the Film Actors Guild, which is supporting the peace conference, including such participants as Alec Baldwin, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, George Clooney, and other actors who have spoken out against the war in Iraq (but did not agree to be spoofed in the film). Parker and Stone reserve a special message for FAHRENHEIT 9/11 director Michael Moore, and even former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix shows up. Among the very funny--and very dirty--songs in the film are 'Everyone Has AIDS' (from the Broadway musical LEASE), 'Only a Woman' (about homosexuality), and 'I'm So Ronery' (Kim Jong Il's soaring solo). Despite having no actual humans in it, the movie earns its R rating with lots of blood, very adult language, and a steamy puppet sex scene.

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An elite U.S. counter-terrorism squad loses a member while decimating half of Paris in the reckless pursuit of Middle Eastern maniacs; a Broadway actor with a traumatic childhood secret is naturally hired to replace him. Oh--and they're all marionettes. South Parkmaestros Trey Parker and Matt Stone (along with co-writer Pam Brady) came up with this shameless satire of pea-brained Hollywood action flicks and even smaller-minded global politics, so don't expect subtlety or even a hint of good taste. Team Americais soon on the trail of North Korea's evil Kim Jong Il, who treats us to a tender song about his loneliness before ensnaring Alec Baldwin and the rest of the oblivious Film Actors Guild (F.A.G. for short) in a plot to blow up every major city on the planet. Just as the mindless squad cheerfully demolishes everything in sight, so do director Parker and company. Throwing punches left, right and in-between, the movie's politics leave no turn un-stoned; there's even time to bludgeon the musical Rent. It's offensive, irresponsible comic anarchy seemingly made by sniggering little boys. Painfully funnysniggering little boys. --Steve Wiecking, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	9 Featurettes, Deleted And Extended Scenes, Outtakes, 6 Animated Storyboards, 2 Theatrical Trailers
Subtitles:	Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, English, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Swedish
Year:	2004
Release Date:	May 23, 2005
Runtime:	97 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	P H E 8647
Keywords:	World, Action, America, Comedy, General, Police, Team, Adventure
Genre:	Comedy