If you are not easily offended by racism or political satire. Hearing copious amounts of swearing and watching an outrageous number of explicit puppet sex scenes then you are all set to pop Team America in your DVD player and hit play.
The film follows the popular Broadway actor Gary Johnston, who is recruited by an elite counter terrorist unit, Team America: World Police. It is down to Gary and Gary alone to battle against terrorists in order for the world to survive, as they know it. Some might think the whole idea is just ludicrous, but doesn’t that just make it all the more? Too many films take themselves seriously and it is refreshing to see something that does the complete opposite.
The film parades through virtually every action film cliché (well a fair few anyway) – Top Gun, Pearl Harbor, not to mention their relentless slating of certain celebrities. Matt Daaamonnnnn springs to mind. A few other A-List celebs have marionette versions of themselves too. We see the likes of Alec Baldwin, Sean Penn, Helen Hunt, Samuel L. Jackson and George Clooney are but a few. Where the film really takes a risk is by providing us with a puppet version of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il voiced by no other than Parker himself.
If you are up for one outrageous film that will make your jaw drop as much as it makes you laugh, then Team America is for you. It will either offend or have you in stitches.
I mean who doesn’t want to see a film whose title song ‘America, Fuck Yeah’ has the word fuck, 37 times in it? What better way to spend Independence Day?