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Team America : Thought Police I completely disagree with the last reviewer who said that this move contains no allegory or overarching message. The creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, are masters of satire. A brilliant satire says something specific, and it says it eloquently, through the details and the generalities of the plot. A reviewer once said of Dirty Harry that it was a "Fascist masterpiece". I would say the exact same thing about Team America: World Police. It is, as I see it, ultimately (though will slight reservations) a defense of America's evil and destructive current foreign policy. However, it is a defense that is more hilarious and eloquently satirically than I could ever ask for. At the climax of the film the protagonist, in a tradition that is extremely prevalent in South Park, summarizes the moral of the movie thusly, "We're dicks! We're reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks. And the Film Actors Guild are pussies. And Kim Jong Il is an a**hole. Pussies don't like dicks, because pussies get f*cked by dicks. But dicks also f*ck a**holes: a**holes that just want to sh*t on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with a**holes their way. But the only thing that can f*ck an a**hole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is: they f*ck too much or f*ck when it isn't appropriate - and it takes a pu**y to show them that. But sometimes, pussies can be so full of sh*t that they become a**holes themselves... because pussies are an inch and half away from a**holes. I don't know much about this crazy, crazy world, but I do know this: If you don't let us f*ck this a**hole, we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in sh*t!" That was very funny. It was also, I think, a rather convincing argument for "preemptive war", such as we had in Iraq. In other words, when all is said and done, the world does need us to police it, despite our tendency to overdue things; in fact, it is exactly this tendency that makes us so effective. Bullsh*t. But I must repeat, I did laugh my ass off all the way through this move. With one exception: At one point, an Arab terrorist character recounts his reasons for joining Al Qaeda, something about how once America bombed him and his goats were killed. The story is told over melodramatic music, so as to make the joke that this guy's suffering over his dead goats is silly. In other words, we're expected to laugh at the Arab world's complaints against us as petty. This was a rare occasion during the film when a joke fell flat for me. I am willing to laugh at the zealotry of Americans or Arabs. But I cannot, I'm sorry, bring myself to laugh at the pain in the world that America has caused. email this review to a friend
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