FlashCallahan Team America are an international police force dedicated to maintaining global stability. Learning that power hungry dictator Kim Jong Il is out to destroy the world, the team recruits Broadway star Gary Johnston to go undercover. With the help of Team America, Gary manages to slip into an arms dealer's hideout to uncover the plan to destroy the world. Will Team America be able to save the world, and stop the film actors guild, led by the greatest living actor......Alec Baldwin.As talented as Parker and Stone are, they are getting a bit old hat now. Twenty years ago, South Park was a breath of fresh air, just on the right side of being too edgy, and the awful animation only added to the charm of the programme.Then the film was released, and it ran out of steam very, very quickly.And this film sniffers the same fate.Trying to be controversial is one thing, and with today's politically correct morons leading Hollywood, it's wonderful that they try to go all out with their bawdy humour. But this is the problem, the humour leaves the film just as Gary enters the limo for the first time, and it never returns for the remainder of the film. So what we are left with is a pretty boring action film with the novelty of it being cast entirely by puppets, and again, the novelty quickly wears off, as you are left with nothing but a group of highly unlikable characters causing more harm than the actual terrorists depicted in this.As expected, the focus of the humour is all race related, and giving characters who are not American, very silly accents to make the patriotic members of the audience laugh because someone pronounces words using the letter W instead of the letter L.Hilarious.It's not very good, and time hasn't been kind to the film, as the humour feels more ancient than that of seventies British sitcoms.

john_hugo This is the funniest movie, I have ever seen. South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone show their true genius in this vulgar politically incorrect parody of the American might. Using puppets reminiscent of the old kids show "Thunderbirds" worked especially well. They don't even try to hide the puppet strings or aim for realism. They do in in a cheesy way on purpose, and it works.The puppet sex scene hurt my stomach, because everyone in the room was laughing so hard it became infectious and no one could stop.If you are not a prude and enjoy irreverent satire, (which never loses steam) then Team America World Police is for you.

Alexandre Cabello Because the movie is told through puppets, it will likely be off- putting for many right off the bat but it's also what made me appreciate the movie most (as a technical feat). Team America: World Police hilariously nails many of the action genre's tropes and easy American stereotypes but coincidentally shares the same tasteless, uncomfortable humor that South Park manufactures. It's too extreme for me but was a good introspective laugh in the meantime.My rubric:2. You and I, we could make something more engrossing with a million dollars and the length of the runtime. Absolutely dreadful, a total drag - save yourself.4. Average. Post-mortem of your mildly entertained time, you are unenthused.6. The threshold for willful re-watching. You get excited when it's brought up casually in conversation.8. The go-to movies. You've employed yourself to actively advertise someone else's work to share the satisfaction. The obsession extends beyond promotion and into understanding. You exhaust yourself, concerned in the detail and ensuring no one could ever introduce you to an element you haven't explored.10. A work of art that radically develops one's self comically, emotionally, morally or imaginatively with lasting affect.

siderite I liked the movie, but I was not impressed by it. At first the puppet animations and occasional singing threw me off, but then I got into the spirit of things. After all, South Park is the same, focusing on the story and funny satire, rather than on good animation. The problem is that the jokes were not that funny and the ideas were few. This is something that I really cannot understand, since every SP episode is the combination of at least two satires playing together, and often more, and they last for 20 minutes. How can a movie made by the same guys (and in this category I place the South Park movie, as well) be less in one hour and a half?The main plot is a satire on the Hollywood way of portraying global politics, from ridiculous action movies that glorify violence to end violence and the American spirit against the world to actor associations talking about peace and external policy without getting any of it. The film makes fun of several movies, but just scene gags, really, then goes into the politically incorrect humor with puppet sex scenes and taking shots at celebrity actors. Team America, a Thunderbirds rip off, go all around the world saving the world from terrorists and in the process destroying the Eiffel tower, the Arc of Triumph, the Louvre, the Sphynx, etc, congratulating themselves for a job well done afterwards. That was really funny. However all the jokes coming after were weaker. They should not have started with their best gag. Kim Jong-il is the villain and by far the funniest character, being a combination of Cartman and Tuong Lu Kim, the Chinese character that debuted in the "Jared has Aides" South Park episode. Very fitting, indeed.Bottom line: the movie felt like a South Park episode, which was great, but it lasted for an hour and a half. During that time I would have watched and enjoyed four SP episodes, so it all felt watered down. I really wanted to enjoy it, but at times all I felt was the need to fast forward.