Sunday, January 23, 2005
Team America, World Police: I liked the parts which where in good taste
Who could release a film about American dominating world politics just before they run an election in Iraq? Who could include scenes of people being washed away in giant waves following the latest world events? Trey Parker, and Matt Stone, that's who.
I went to see Team America: World Police tonight. I had a pleasurable experience of waiting in the station for twenty minutes for my tardy posse to turn up, but when doing so noticed that it seems to be the meeting point for the local Goth child population (Probably explaining why I've been carving my mashed potato into the shape of Lime Street Station the last few days while humming Temple of Love).
So yes, the movie. Very South Park at points, even borrowing songs from the series, but reflecting how Thunderbirds recently lost their strings, here the South Park creators pick them up destroying all the innocence of puppeteering.
The film shows the world as it should be, French streets are made of crousants, in bars in Cairo bands play the theme tune to the Muppets and random drunks in bars give the advice that might just save the day, like in my life. The parody is persistently fantastic and insightful, and being the first work from these two in a while it lets them take shots at recent tyrants thrust upon us, most notably Michael Moore.
But, the film just didn't measure up to South Park, not sure why, but then what high standards to try and top. The movie seemed to receive very little publicity in advance, a good thing as it saved the movie being over-hyped. It was also carried less message than later day South Park, a move that will no doubt increase its popularity, but without loosing the message completly. There was also something about this movie that made me laugh at the points where no one else did...
A fun night was had by all, apart from me, who had to pay £6 for a taxi home only to get dropped of 2/3rds of the way as I was out of cash.
I went to see Team America: World Police tonight. I had a pleasurable experience of waiting in the station for twenty minutes for my tardy posse to turn up, but when doing so noticed that it seems to be the meeting point for the local Goth child population (Probably explaining why I've been carving my mashed potato into the shape of Lime Street Station the last few days while humming Temple of Love).
So yes, the movie. Very South Park at points, even borrowing songs from the series, but reflecting how Thunderbirds recently lost their strings, here the South Park creators pick them up destroying all the innocence of puppeteering.
The film shows the world as it should be, French streets are made of crousants, in bars in Cairo bands play the theme tune to the Muppets and random drunks in bars give the advice that might just save the day, like in my life. The parody is persistently fantastic and insightful, and being the first work from these two in a while it lets them take shots at recent tyrants thrust upon us, most notably Michael Moore.
But, the film just didn't measure up to South Park, not sure why, but then what high standards to try and top. The movie seemed to receive very little publicity in advance, a good thing as it saved the movie being over-hyped. It was also carried less message than later day South Park, a move that will no doubt increase its popularity, but without loosing the message completly. There was also something about this movie that made me laugh at the points where no one else did...
A fun night was had by all, apart from me, who had to pay £6 for a taxi home only to get dropped of 2/3rds of the way as I was out of cash.
