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October 12, 2004
"Team America" Update (UPDATED)

Posted by Bill

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Hans Blix takes a dip in Kim Jung Il's shark tank. © 2004 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved.

My anticipation level for Trey Parker and Matt Stone's new puppet movie was already pretty high, but after reading the injured commentary in the DU moonbat forum, it's now at a fever pitch. Here are some excerpted reviews from our favorite irony-impaired members of the proletariat:

** I can't wait for everyone to get pissed off at US... When its seen around the world

** Okay, I laughed in some of it but overall this is a Freepers wet dream. They poke fun at liberals BIG TIME!!!Nothing against ANY rightwingers, ONLY LIBERALS!!! Liberals are the butt of the joke & are even the villians in this.Oh, & all the liberals Die a horrific death in this. TOTALLY bias! I mean, c'mon. How can they NOT have Bush puppet? I mean, he so much a charachter that needs to be mocked. This film was very mean spirited IMO. My firned said I didn't get it. That it was an extreme right wing edge to it & that was the joke. Well, I didn't get that when I saw it. TRUST ME, Freepers will call this film their own & Trey Parker & Matt Stone have sold out BIG TIME!

** I always figured if my hubby's Freeperish bigot family liked the show (edit - South Park, that is) as much as they do, it wasn't anything I wanted to subject myself to. Ditto the movie.

** I'm sorry but any film that tries to paint liberals as traitors is sick

** They should spend the rest of their days in the Denise Miller home for washed up right wing shills.

** South Park is nothing but ugliness and cynicism taken to the 9th degree. The fact that it is funny doesn't make it less amoral.

** It's a propaganda film - the title wants to make closed minded people think America is so good for being "World Police". Oh geez, we're in a lot of trouble.

** I can't believe there are still people who don't realize that the Southpark guys are Republican shills.

** Which kid always dies? The poor kid, whose house is full of rats as a comedy device.

** those guys lost me years ago, when they trashed rain forest preservation & biodiversity. Call me touchy and humorless but I can't get any chuckles out of human caused mass extinction.

** Horrific Labor Practices at South Park

Ha! Something tells me that our "touchy and humorless" friends aren't comparing the "horrific" labor practices of an animation studio in Southern California to the horrific labor practices in, say, a forced labor cotton plantation in northern Cote d'Ivoire. Be careful with those adjectives, children.

Yet in the midst of all this doom and gloom, a brave soul clings to a bright ray of hope:

** could this be so over the top as to make bush look like a puppet ?

That's the spirit! When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!

I've said it before and I'll say it again: moonbats are one of nature's sublime treasures.

Scylla & Charybdis has a review:

Alec Baldwin is shot by Kim Jong-Il, for being an ineffective terror supporter. Hans Blix is also killed by Kim. Eaten alive by sharks.

Michael Moore is portrayed as a fat socialist double-fisting some hot dogs, with ketchup and mustard running down his face. Of course, he dies. Suicide bomber.

I'm sold. Warning to any of my more conservative readers - before you decide that this movie's for you, beware of the MPAA's rather unique warning:

The Restricted tag warning says the rating is for "graphic, crude and sexual humor, violent images and strong language, all involving puppets."

Gleeful UPDATE: Kos pans it. Score!

(Via Spitbull)

Posted by Bill at October 12, 2004 11:47 AM | TrackBack (27)

Comments

Awesome. After reading those DU reviews, I gotta see it.

Posted by: Violent Kitten at October 12, 2004 11:08 AM

it even got "screw'em" Kos's knickers in a knot.

I was going to see it anyway, just because I remember "Thunderbirds" from my youth, but now it moves to a must see. It would be nice if it grossed more money than the mockumentary F911.

Posted by: Darleen at October 12, 2004 11:23 AM

Hmm. Opens on my birthday. That'd be a great gift!

Posted by: Sharp as a Marble at October 12, 2004 11:27 AM

Hmm. Opens on my birthday. That'd be a great gift!

And who says the VRWZC doesn't provide perks? >:)

Funny that they're upset that liberal puppets "die"... don't they think that all puppets should die, or is logic and consistency too much to expect from them? That is a rhetorical question, of course >:)

Lysander

Posted by: Lysander at October 12, 2004 11:49 AM

I can't wait!!

I don't watch much anymore, but I watched S Park from the first few episodes back when I was in college. The thing that people often don't realize is that a lot of the show's early popularity among college males came not just from the shocking gross humor, but also its (even more shocking) center-right moralizing, both of which mocked the sanitized, cutesy-wutesy liberalism we were all inundated with growing up.

Posted by: TallDave at October 12, 2004 11:56 AM

Bill, you missed the very dumbest DU comment: the one that said the audience members who cheered the (fictional) destruction of the Eiffel Tower were no better than the people who cheered the destruction of the WTC on 9/11.

Hello??? THE WTC WAS REALLY DESTROYED!!


Posted by: TallDave at October 12, 2004 11:59 AM

The scene they showed at the end of the Making of the Movie segment on MTV was hilarious. I've never seen a puppet puke before. I was laughing out loud. My wife thought there was something wrong with me.

Posted by: Rock at October 12, 2004 12:04 PM

I saw it Saturday, in liberal Seattle, blocks from the U of WA, in the same independant mulitplex showing "Going Upriver: John Kerry w/o a paddle," and the single sneak peak show had been moved to a larger theater and it still sold out. Every single celebrity moonbat death was cheered, and you can not go wrong with a splodeydope Michael Moore.

The warning is appropriate. South Park Republicans: yes; Bible Belt Republicans and anyone else easily offended: stay away.

DU needs to get a grip, but they're probably pissed that their "Rock the Vote" demographic is leaving the theater singing the theme, "America! F*ck yeah!"

Posted by: rw at October 12, 2004 12:10 PM

I am really looking forward to this. The DU comments were icing on the cake. It looks like it could be even funnier than South Park: BLU, and I laughed so hard during the 'What Would Brian Boitano Do?' song that I hyperventilated.

Posted by: David Gillies at October 12, 2004 12:24 PM

I'm going TWICE.

Posted by: Joe R. the Unabrewer at October 12, 2004 12:33 PM

rw, the Metro on 45th? Was the crowd the way I'd expect it? (95%+ under thirty?)

Posted by: Al at October 12, 2004 01:13 PM

The DU rant reminds me of when I was courting my wife in college. I was at her apartment with her and her very liberal friends and we all watching a George Carlin special. Carlin was on a rant about golf courses, rich fat Republicans, etc, and the everyone in the group was in hysterics at Carlin's one-liners.

Later in the show, Carlin turned his humor on the environmentalists and starting ripping on them for their arrogance at thinking they could save the planet. Needless to say, I was the only one laughing in the room. The uber-libs started actually screaming at the TV and getting seriously ticked at Carlin. My response, of course, was to laugh even harder. These take themselves entirely too seriously.

Fortunately, my wife has seen the errors of her ways in her younger days and is now a staunch supply-sider. The same cannot be said for her best friends who now live in Manhattan.

Posted by: MarkD33 at October 12, 2004 01:25 PM

"those guys lost me years ago, when they trashed rain forest preservation & biodiversity. Call me touchy and humorless but I can't get any chuckles out of human caused mass extinction"

and we wonder why Kerry doesn't ever make fun of himself? He's just like them. They'll be serious until the end, when they are defeated and extinct... Expect wailing and nashing of teeth come 11/3

Posted by: OneDrummer at October 12, 2004 01:32 PM

Wow.. what tools the guys at DU are
(i say a sneak preview so here are some areas where they are clueless about the film)

#1) Team America is the right wing/Jingoistic worldview on display.(Ignorant about middle eastern culture, tactically clueless, trying to be diverse rather then effective, blowing up important stuff accidentaly, Uber-rich stuff)
#2)No refrence to the US government attacking any countries happens, but a refrence to TEAM America does (I.E the Bush foriegn policy is team america)
#3)Painting Americans as sexually frustrated

Now, thats where the DU-H crowd gets it wrong, now for some other funny elements you might enjoy

Kim Jung Il with a superiority complex ( vs his real life inferiority complex)
Using a Bar discussion to save the world.
a hilarious send up of the mentality in broadway

so many things get sent up in this film

Posted by: Larry Bernard at October 12, 2004 01:33 PM

Al: It was the Metro on 45th. Most of the crowd was under thirty, and I think I saw a guy in the lobby wearing a black kilt with fishnets. Just your usual movie night crowd in the Udistrict on a Saturday night.

The left is so fickle. A few weeks ago when Bill Maher said that Kerry had been feminized (and a few other truthful criticisms of the Kerry campaign), DU was ready to organize a boycott. I think one poster actually cancelled her hbo over it.

Posted by: rw at October 12, 2004 01:43 PM

If you see this movie, take a swing voter!
I caught the sneak preview last Friday night at AMC in Santa Monica and absolutely loved it!
It had some very profound statements to make about the nature of the GWOT and why it must be fought, and of course how nations like NorK and even Chechnya fit right in. This is not to say the film is entirely uncritical of American methods and missteps in fighting the war, but its criticisms are very reasonable. Also, I learned that Alec Baldwin is the greatest actor on earth!
Seriously- take a swing voter!

Posted by: Andy at October 12, 2004 01:44 PM

Funny that they're upset that liberal puppets "die"...

Can't wait for the next time someone burns an effigy of GW Bush.

Posted by: Robert Crawford at October 12, 2004 01:47 PM

Can't wait for the next time someone burns an effigy of GW Bush.

Failure to acknowledge ludicrous, humorous context. 5 yards, repeat 2nd down.

Posted by: Bill from INDC at October 12, 2004 01:50 PM

Say, Bill, what's the penalty for failure to recognize clear ironic content? I believe Robert was pointing out that the DUers embrace ritual puppet death joyfully when it's a Bush puppet. Robert may correct me if I'm wrong.

This film was very mean spirited IMO.

That line made me laugh and laugh.

The much I've heard and the little I've seen of South Park has left me stone cold, but I may well go see this, or at least rent the DVD.

You know, when MST3K did puppet sex (homosexual robot oral puppet sex) it was OK, 'cause they're libruuuuls. And that was on TV!

Posted by: Angie Schultz at October 12, 2004 02:03 PM

Angie busted you, Bill!

Posted by: Jim at October 12, 2004 02:07 PM

what's the penalty for failure to recognize clear ironic content?

Well if that were true, 30 yards from scrimmage, but no repetition of 1st down, seeing as the host cannot be wrong, thus creating an inconceivable paradox that would rip a hole in the fabric of the space-time continuum and destroy earth with a dist-

*pop*

Posted by: Bill from INDC at October 12, 2004 02:08 PM

Angie - Mike Nelson, the head writer for MST3K is a huge right-winger.

Posted by: Farmer Joe at October 12, 2004 02:10 PM

MST3K did puppet sex? That's disgusting!

So, in which episode would I find this puppet sex?

Posted by: Jim at October 12, 2004 02:14 PM

bush sux!

your a retart like aall wingnuts

Posted by: suzie at October 12, 2004 02:19 PM

Saw "Team America" on Saturday at a sneak preview. Laughed my a$$ off! Will try to see it with some other friends this weekend. Hilarious! Kim Jong Il when confronted by the UN Weapons Inspector: "Hans Bricks"

Bu-wa ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Those on the left need to lighten up. Geez! You'd think there candidate's VP pick just said that Christopher Reeve would be walking had John Kerry been President!

Posted by: Marshall at October 12, 2004 02:19 PM

bush sux!
your a retart like aall wingnuts
Posted by suzie at October 12, 2004 02:19 PM

I nominate this for ironic liberal projection post of the day.

Posted by: TallDave at October 12, 2004 02:24 PM

Farmer Joe: You get the irony penalty too. Has everyone got irony-poor blood all of a sudden? (Actually, "huge right-winger" would surprise me greatly. "Right of center" would not.)

Jim: I trust this is purely for research purposes, so as to ensure your tiny impressionable children do not watch this filth. It was in the Starfighters episode.

This movie (starring Bob Dornan!) had interminable jet refueling scenes, so during the break Tom and Crow try a refueling scene of their own. They're suspended from wires, and Crow sticks his beak right up Tom's hoverskirt. It looks very naughty.

In some interview somewhere, Kevin Murphy (voice and handler of Tom Servo) said that it turned out to look naughtier than they meant it. You can hear Kevin choke with (apparent) surprise during the scene. The joke is supposed to be that Crow has been on hold with tech support for ages, and it's only when he has his nose stuck up Tommy's nether regions that a guy finally answers.

Posted by: Angie Schultz at October 12, 2004 02:27 PM

Thanks, Angie. I thought I'd seen all the episodes, but I guess I missed a goody.

Posted by: Jim at October 12, 2004 02:37 PM

And there's the episode where Tom & Crow get married (I believe that's the one with the women wrestler movie, with the short about Are you ready for marriage? or was it Is it love? I love that short... "Where'd it go?")

Now, Angie, there's =absolutely=nothing= sexual about robots refueling. What a dirty mind you have.

Posted by: meep at October 12, 2004 02:45 PM

It baffles me how the left lables anyone who doesn't agree with them as "right-wing."

South Park is libertarian, if anything. I don't know many Christian Coalition members who would think of South Park as their social champion.

Come to think of it, I don't know any Christian Coalition members. Did I just make an assumption?

Posted by: Sciszor at October 12, 2004 03:17 PM

I've also already seen a "sneak preview". Here's my review. (Strongly positive, some spoilers)

Posted by: Eric Deamer at October 12, 2004 04:12 PM

"'The Restricted tag warning says the rating is for 'graphic, crude and sexual humor, violent images and strong language, all involving puppets.'"

Best warning ever.

I'll be putting ", all involving puppets" instead of "in bed" at the end of my cookie fortunes from now on. It works *so* much better!

Posted by: Cliff S. at October 12, 2004 04:22 PM

I heard Mancow on Fox and Friends this morning say it was awesome. That is enough for me. I'm there.

Posted by: Rightwingsparkle at October 12, 2004 05:10 PM

Say, Bill, what's the penalty for failure to recognize clear ironic content? I believe Robert was pointing out that the DUers embrace ritual puppet death joyfully when it's a Bush puppet. Robert may correct me if I'm wrong.

No, that was my intent.

Sorry it wasn't clearer.

Posted by: Robert Crawford at October 12, 2004 06:57 PM

It's amazing how liberals are for free speech, artistic expression, political humor and satire, when the message is in agreement with their philosophy.

But when it's not, they go ballistic.

Liberals have very thin skin...and no sense of fairness...

Posted by: Another Thought at October 12, 2004 09:45 PM

My God, they killed Kerry! The bastards!

Posted by: Paul Zrimsek at October 12, 2004 11:01 PM

I can't believe there are still people who don't realize that the Southpark guys are Republican shills.

hehehe - but Moore, on the other hand, is a demigod of Truth.

Say, as usual, these guys may prove to be more entertaining than... say.. the movie.

Posted by: Jonathan at October 12, 2004 11:19 PM

Let's make sure Team America outperforms F911...

Posted by: Another Thought at October 12, 2004 11:50 PM

I saw it last saturday. Non-stop laughs from beginning to end. Within the first 5 minutes every Paris landmark is in ruins. There are some pokes at the right, the DUmmies must have had their judgement impaired by to many bonghits before the show, but the focus is on the libshits. It's great. I plan on downloading the pirated version and buying the DVD.

Hans Brix!

Posted by: joey at October 13, 2004 12:03 AM

Speaking of miserable, humorless scolds, the Salon letters page responding to Havrilesky's interview with Parker and Stone has got 'em.

Posted by: Jim Treacher at October 13, 2004 01:51 AM

P.S. I coined the term "splodeydope." Just wanted to be annoying and mention that.

Posted by: Jim Treacher at October 13, 2004 01:52 AM

P.P.S. TV Funhouse on Comedy Central had animal puppets humping each other every 2 minutes. Okay, sorry, I think that was it.

Posted by: Jim Treacher at October 13, 2004 01:55 AM

Hey, that Rain Forest Environmental episode of South Park is my all time favorite!

Nothing like Jennifer Aniston screaming "F**K THE RAIN FOREST!" at the top of her lungs. I can watch that one over and over.

Guess I'll be heading to the movie...

Posted by: j.pickens at October 13, 2004 01:56 AM

Well I coined the term "stupidfada" (you can look it up on LGF) and it wasn't used even once here until I mentioned it.

The horror.

Posted by: M. Simon at October 13, 2004 05:01 AM

Saw the movie in a sneak preview last week. PRICELESS! Laughed the entire time. The music is the best part -- make sure you catch the words. And stay through the credits -- there's another song at the end.

Posted by: CavalierX at October 13, 2004 08:10 AM

Did anyone notice that these two "republican shills" also produced "That's my Bush" (their one unfunny projet to date)?

Paul:
"My God, they killed Kerry! The bastards!"
Best one-liner I've seen all month.

Posted by: Clay at October 13, 2004 01:04 PM

I'd say they've taken the point, lol. Especially loved Sean Penn's PMS fit, where he practically called Trey & Stone STUPID FAGGOTS

Posted by: jeff at October 13, 2004 01:35 PM

"That's My Bush" was simply because Bush was president - if Gore had won, the show would have been about him (with the different title, obviously).

I'm not sure there is a term to describe their political views. On most issues, they do seem to be Republicans, but they aren't conversative republicans, per se. But they aren't all that libertarian, either.

For instance, South Park is one of the few shows that gets graphic about abortion. And where embryonic stem cells come from.

Similarly, while they make fun of religion, they also clearly don't hate it.

They also had a show defending the Bush court decision that made him president. And they frequently make fun of environmentalists and global warming.

They definitely hate hippies. And Barbra Streisand. And most hollywood liberals.

But really, they do try to be fairly fair. For instance, they had an episode which tried to present both sides of the Iraq war issue. What they do, is try to make the viewer think for themselves. I would liken them to a modern day Voltaire.

Posted by: Jeremy at October 13, 2004 06:53 PM

It will be very interesting to see what kind of box office and legs Team America has. Since even some of the DUmmies acknowledge that it's a funny film my guess is that it may do better than F911. Everyone who goes to see a Michael Moore film is almost certainly left of center and going to vote for Kerry already. Team America, it seems to me, appeals to a much wider demographic.

Posted by: ronnie schreiber at October 13, 2004 09:48 PM

Cant wait to see it.Will get to see my buddys Michael moore Alec, Hans. goody goody. Im already laughing

Posted by: willy cook at October 13, 2004 10:25 PM

Is it only a matter of time before "they" claim that Karl Rove wrote the script? :)

Posted by: Paul at October 14, 2004 02:09 AM

Ok, I'll probably see it 4 times just to get all the "subtle" digs, and when the director's cut comes out, I'll be buying that so I can get the full effect of naked puppets gettin' it on.

The more the lefties scream about this movie, the more I know I'll love it. Those lefties are such pansies - they get the red a$$ if you look at em cross eyed.

My question is - when are they coming out with the action figures?? I SOOO want my own little KimJong Il!

Posted by: Palsy Clown at October 14, 2004 10:13 AM

I love Kos's reactions:

puppets of liberal celebs getting blown up -> horrifying

actual people getting set on fire and dismembered in Fallujah -> "screw them"

Posted by: Tony at October 14, 2004 03:56 PM

Fabulous.

Check out today's BBC's whining movie review:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3743378.stm

May I quote:

"the brutal evisceration of several Hollywood liberals" . . .

"brutal scenes in which puppets resembling Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins are mutilated beyond recognition" . . .

and finally, "gruesome elimination of puppets representing Hollywood liberals"

Posted by: Mad Minerva at October 15, 2004 01:42 PM

I've heard about us being world police since Bosnia, maybe even before that.

What are the DU's all mad at? I know they are satirizing the Right, too.
The Du's just don't see that, because they don't know any rights/libertarians to know what Parker and Stone are mocking.
They all hang together in some sort of weird meshy seething bunch.

Happy Birthday, Sharp-

Posted by: ma at October 17, 2004 06:50 AM

Hey, gotta see this for myself :-)

One of the South Park duo said in an interview that "I hate conservatives, but I REALLY F***ING hate liberals".

http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_4_were_not_losing.html

Posted by: Former Belgian at October 18, 2004 05:42 AM

Liberals are evil. Thankfully they all die in Team America. Too bad the F.A.G puppets weren't voodoo dolls. Then, uninformed morons running around Hollywood using their status as a soapbox to preach with would cease to exist. And movies would get better.

Now get a sense of humor, and within that realize that the left = communism, socialism and love of terrorists and hatred of freedom.

Posted by: Wilford Brimley at October 18, 2004 08:28 PM

Upon hearing Sean Penn's letter, my wife said this was a must see. So she put on her most recently aquired pro-Bush shirt, one that was created right after the VP debate. We did not realize how apt it was at the time.

Loved the panthers. Very realistic.

Got to explain to a co-worker that I thought the central metaphor of the movie worked quite well. That it was apt, and higly accessible to the public at large. He asked me what the metaphor was, and while I was trying to quote Gary Johnson's speech, he was laughing to hard to pay attention.

Wife thinks that there may be a subtle meaning to the anti-Ben Affleck song. That while it was talking about the movie, "Pearl Harbor" the real event sucked as much or more than the movie did. As did its more recent parallel even from 2001.

Oh, the t-shirt she was wearing? "Chick Heart Dick: Bush Cheney '04"

Posted by: Ben at October 19, 2004 09:55 AM

It's only funny until a liberal puppet loses an eye. Brilliant movie; when Parker and Stone are onto satirizing something, they are viciously good.

I think P & S hate hypocrisy the most; to wit: Religious Rightwingers who want smaller government, but then want to control everyone's morality, and the Liberals who hate the RR's hypocrisy, especially when it comes to free speech, but then are even bigger hypocrats with all the political correctness nonsense.

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