October 21, 2004
Team America: World Police
I forgot to post a review!
Team America: World Police has moments of pure comic genius and then a lot of moments of not so pure comic genius. The premise is funny; who doesn't like a good old-fashioned movie about puppet terrorist hunters?
The songs and the puppetry are the highlights of Team America. The songs are quite funny, including "Pearl Harbor Sucked and I Miss You", a song called "Montage" played during a montage, "America, F*** Yeah!", "So Lonely", and a few others.
The puppetry, too, is a real reason for seeing Team America. Seriously, the sets and the detailed action and interesting shots must have been a mammoth project to work on. It was very impressive!
Some of the film fell a little bit flat; while it mocks the traditional action hero storyline, it does so by following the same storyline, which is still just as bad as what it's making fun of. Don't get me wrong. Some of the mockery was great, but some of those serious moments were just plain dull. The comedy was mostly in the songs, and the rest was just mediocre.
Overall I really did enjoy myself, but thought that it could have been a little more poignant with its humor and maybe even its offensiveness. Honestly, besides cursing and puppet sex it just wasn't very shocking. I give it a positive review, but if you go, don't expect the world's funniest movie going into it.
Posted by wendytime at October 21, 2004 12:42 PM | TrackBackThat's the same thing I've heard from other trusted sources: Good, but not funniest movie ever.
I have to admit, I want to see it as much for Bill Pope's cinematography as anything else. But the clip of "I'm So Ronery" I saw on Yahoo Movies is quite a tearjerker!
Posted by: Jonathan on October 21, 2004 04:09 PM