Wednesday, February 18, 2009

2004 - TEAM AMERICA-WORLD POLICE a time capsule into another era


I laughed a lot at this movie. It's basically a version of The Thunderbirds TV show with puppets doing all of the ridiculous stuff action movie actors usually do. Throw in a lot of inappropriate songs and some puppet violence and sex and you have a satire of some kind.


Probably 30 minutes of this would have been enough. There is a nude puppet sex scene that goes on way to long and a vomit scene that hammers you over the head, but by this point in the movie you get what you pay for. A creepy element to all of this is a strange fascination and focus on gay oral sex towards the end of the movie. It's pretty icky.


The tiresome whining about liberal Hollywood stars is kind of lame as well. The movie looks like a period piece from the Bush era. This movie could be a snapshot of the political mood and paranoia of the country during those 8 years. However, that might be a little bit of a stretch. Oh well. The jokes about the liberal actors acting as bad as the terrorists would seem to indicate where the true feelings of the filmmakers lie. The killer kitty cat jokes at the end were just lame.


98 minutes.

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