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Team America: World Police (Review)
Team America: World Police consists of a team of all-American Thunderbirds who bomb the hell out of everything to defend the values of the land of the democratic free. Sound familiar?
The film opens with a wonderful sequence set in Paris where terrorists have infiltrated the city of love, and one of them happens to be carrying a WMD. The five-member Team America squad arrives just in time to stop the bad guys. They succeed, but at a price as one of the team is fatally wounded. The by-product of the battle is that the Eiffel Tower and Louvre are blown to pieces. Slightly unfortunate - yes. It's termed collateral damaged in war. But the important thing is that the terrorist group is eliminated. The film escalates further...
Created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park fame, it is a parody of how Americans view the world in their own inimitable myopic fashion (where South Korea is described as being 6000 miles west of America).
The sheer amount of wit and subversive humour packed into this film is mind boggling. This superhero satire, which has lots of serious, semi-serious, and not-at-all-serious things to say about the current state of the world, is however about an hour longer than it needs to be. All in all, it is exactly what we expected.
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