Wednesday 31 August 2011

Team America: World Police (Trey Parker, 2004)

Apparently this is rated highly as a comedy film. Seriously though, if you set out to offend everybody from Muslims, homosexuals, the French, the American left, actors who feel the need to use their profile to act conscientiously, Koreans, the makers of the Thunderbirds series, the United Nations, the U.S. intelligence service and your own popcorn-guzzling audience, you'd better be sharper than a surgical scalpel.
Team America is blunter than a dessert spoon and contains only three workable jokes in an agonisingly long hour and a half. It defends what it pretends to satirise, i.e. U.S. foreign intervention, it rides on what it calls cheese and takes great delight in butchering well-intentioned naysayers. It's asking you to participate in fratboys farting in each other's faces for kicks. Thank God it tanked, and if you got anything out of this you have quite serious problems.

2/10

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