Movie Review: Team America-World Police

Suppose they told a joke and no one laughed?
That's what happened to me, I mean, was I the only one in on the joke? I knew that my fellow Coloradoans, Matt Stone and Trey Parker are notoroius for terrific satire, labblasting everything from themselves to the world-at-large. You grow to expect it from the creators of South Park.
In fact, it is one of the few comedies I'm willing to watch. I know, I suppose I could have seen Team America: World Police in the movies--but it was released in that nadir of cinema, springtime. .The place where movies in search of a Very Specific Audience are wont to go.
This is actually a decent movie. Now I didn't say good. For it is really a one note joke. And if you get it, it all kinda goes down from there. And if you don't get it, you'll think it is very, very weird.
The entire movie is told in puppets. Big marionettes like they used to have on the early seventies television kids' programs, you know, "the Thunderbirds." In it, terrorists are about to lay seige to all the worlds' delegations and so a special counter-terrorist team is activated to get to them first.
But here is the joke.
Look at the title again. "World Police." Since when did America become the police to world? Never has, but, for some reason, the politicos like to think so. It gives them reign to invade small countries with oil.
So we are sent around the world to beat up terrorists. Now the terrorists are another joke in this movie. See...they are never named. Just like the Republicans highjakcing the term to inspire fear in voters ("if you vote for us--the terrorists will never win!"), the villains in this movies are just merely called the terrorists. At one point, the leader of North Korea becomes the bad guy.
Just as disturbing as the real world.
The lamblasting continues with making fun of peace loving actors who feel they have something to say about world events; to comments that action is really just a bunch of explosions.
But no one seems to get the joke here. The movie flopped.
Which explains why Bush was elected, I suppose.
I give these two full credit--South Park and this little movie show two men with a ton of talent and commentary. I think I might chaulk them up to the 'why aren't they more famous?' line.
And the movie?
If you have no idea about what I've said here, well, I doubt you would enjoy it. If you are one to find fault in the currect polictcal climate, then maybe you might get the joke. I know I laughed.
And I don't like comedies.