Team America, an international police force dedicated to maintaining global stability but there actions to stop terrorism are almost as destructive as the terrorists themselves. Team America learns that a power-hungry dictator is brokering weapons of mass destruction to these terrorists. So the heroes embark upon a harrowing mission to save the world. To infiltrate the terrorist network, Team America recruits Gary Johnston, a rising star on Broadway, to go undercover and pretend to be a terrorist to learn about their plans. Although initially reluctant to sacrifice his promising career, Gary realizes that his acting gift is needed for a higher cause. With the help of Team America leader, Spottswoode, and fellow members, Chris, Sarah, Lisa and Joe, Gary slips into an arms dealer’s hideout where he discovers that the terrorists’ plot has already begun to unfold. From the pyramids of Cairo to the Panama Canal and finally to the palace of power-mad dictator, Kim Jong I1, Team America crisscrosses the globe on a desperate mission to prevent world destruction but there way is littered with the problems they have created by being so destructive as Alec Baldwin the leader of the Film Actors Guild (F.A.G.) is bent on stopping them and shutting them down for good.

If you come into this movie and you take it seriously you probably deserved to be offended. That’s the point of the whole movie to be highly offensive and so over the top that the movie ends up being downright hilarious. This is a lesson in how to laugh at ourselves all the while being politically minded. Trey Parker and Matt Stone have an incredibly biting wit that I enjoy very much as they are very inventive and creative. They know how to push peoples buttons, and see humor in people’s attitudes and America’s current trend of thinking itself responsible for the rest of the world like a world police force. They even manage to make fun of some of the music that came out of 9/11, that the music maker’s thought was patriotic and I always thought it to be just egotistical. I have already heard there is some uprising from some of the actors in the movie who are portrayed as part of the problem (e.g. Alec Baldwin, Tim Robbins), but if they have a problem with the film it is because they cannot laugh at themselves and they just truly need to lighten up because if the don’t they are just helping Trey Parker and Matt Stone accomplish what they set out to do. Which makes me wonder what Kim Jong I1’s reaction the movie will be as the North Koreans were offended by Die Another Day and their portrayal as the bad guys,

This movie would have never worked as a live action film, but it works perfectly as a puppet show. I know some people might not be able to accept an all marionette cast, but by going all puppets it allowed Parker and Stone to do some things they could have never gotten away with if they had used a live cast. The puppet sex scene is hilarious because it is puppets, and absurd. That describes the movie perfectly, absurdity and offensive on purpose. If you are easily offended and do not like over the top humor this movie is not for you, but if you like something with a great wit to it that is creative and imaginative this movie is a must see.
4 stars out of 5