A justification for American militarism from the South Park guys in the form of "dicks have to fuck assholes" or whatever.
Racism towards Middle Easterners and Kim Jong-il too, because why not?
The real problem is that some Hollywood actors said the Iraq War was bad.
Team America makes more sense when you understand that it was just supposed to be a parody of Jerry Bruckheimer movies. The reason the political satire has this very muddled view of "Bush era American military interventions are bad but also good but maybe kinda bad unless not" is because that's not the main thing it's making fun of.
Edit: That wasn't a defense of the movie to be clear, and I think Team America fails because it can't commit to making a point. It invites you to laugh at how crass and stupid the whole post-9/11 Bush era American ethos was, but it mostly seems to agree with the underlying premises that birthed that ethos, except sometimes when it doesn't. If the South Park guys wanted it to be just a movie parody then it shouldn't have any political satire at all, but it does, so it winds up as a satire that doesn't say anything. A movie like Airplane is much more successful as a movie parody because there's virtually no political content in it.
Hot Shots 1 and 2 did the parodies of American action movies better a decade before this.
definitely. I had forgotten about those. Gonna have to rewatch them. Also literally everyone on this site needs to watch the movie Top Secret, we should do a watch party for that as a pallet cleanser after we are done watching horror for halloween.
One of the best movies for one off sight gags
The underwater saloon brawl scene was legendary. It was actually filmed underwater with painstaking care.
You nailed it. I was there and watched it because the "south park guys" were part of it