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Home Front: Culture Wars
PARAMOUNT PUPPET MOVIE TO MOCK TERROR WAR
2004-08-02
WHITE HOUSE ANGER AT HOLLYWOOD ELECTION SURPRISE: PARAMOUNT PUPPET MOVIE TO MOCK TERROR WAR
**Exclusive**

A new film set for release from PARAMOUNT has raised the pop culture threat levels at the White House -- a film which lampoons the war on terror [and media urgency] using puppets, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. "I really do not think terrorism is funny, and I would suggest PARAMOUNT give respect to those fighting and sacrificing to keep America safe," a senior Bush adviser told the DRUDGE REPORT this weekend. The new fuss film TEAM AMERICA, set for release two weeks before the November presidential election, is entering post-production with SOUTH PARK creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

A deep voice using serious tones opens the film's teaser: "We live in a time of unparalleled danger. Weapons of Mass Destruction are being offered to terrorists all over the world. Global chaos is about to consume every country on Earth. And there is only one hope for humanity."
RANTBURG!
The movie's official poster features an apparent Bush look-a-like [strings attached] with his back to the viewer.
It's the return of "SuperMarionation" for those fans of "Thunderbirds" and "Captain Scarlett".
The senior White House adviser, who asked not to be named, fumed after seeing the movie's website and trailer. "This is just unconscionable. Not funny..."
Get a grip
Marionette puppets are used throughout the film to mock terror threats, and media figures who dominate the nation's airwaves. But Parker and Stone save most of the mocking for left-wing pundits and Michael Moore. "Bush is not even in the film," Parker said Sunday night from Los Angeles during the DRUDGE REPORT radio broadcast. "I would ask that people wait and see it, before passing a judgement."
Pictures at Drudge show the bad guys as turban wearing taliban style jihadis, so I expect a fatawa from CAIR in 5..4..3..

Developing...
Posted by:Steve

#11  "They killed Osma!. Basatards!"

This could be very, very funny indeed.
Posted by: FlameBait93268   2004-08-02 9:32:21 PM  

#10  These guys have deeply and unforgivingly upset me several times over the years....

That said, they're so funny they could make you laugh at your mother's funeral.
Posted by: Secret Master   2004-08-02 9:09:05 PM  

#9  neologism
I thought we had agreed not to use that word.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-08-02 3:00:04 PM  

#8  Isn't anyone in the Bush camp aware of the neologism "South Park Republican"?
Posted by: growler   2004-08-02 2:33:37 PM  

#7  I watched the trailer and think the Bush folks can relax. It starts off with a list of like ten or so lefties (Sean Penn, Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, George Clooney are listed and I think there were a few more) and then ends the list with Bush, Kerry and Kim Jung Il. Then says they will all be very upset by this movie, or something like that. I spotted Michael Moore and Kim Jung Il in the trailer so I think everyone listed probably appears somewhere.

Personally I think it looks funny. You all know that these two guys are Republicans.
Posted by: yank   2004-08-02 2:10:10 PM  

#6  Hey Sgt Mom, over here with the popcorn, extra butter please!!

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2004-08-02 1:46:18 PM  

#5  Popcorn! Who wants popcorn!!!
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2004-08-02 11:14:48 AM  

#4  According to someone who saw some clips of the film at Comic-Con last week, it sounds like it IS an equal-opportunity annoyer (scoll down for the description).
But according to the description, Team America swoops in to attack terrorists in Paris, and accidently takes down the Eiffel Tower.
Can it be all that bad, then?
Posted by: Baltic Blog   2004-08-02 10:51:57 AM  

#3  ..Just my .02 here - I've only seen ONE 'South Park' (it was dementedly funny, but the subject was something I shall not even discuss for fear of losing my eternal soul) and ONE 'That's My Bush' (a VERY funny episode that was some genuine and well-done slapstick). Having said that - there is a LONG and honorable tradition in the country of poking fun at political and media figures. From what I've seen of 'Team America' so far (stressing the 'so far') it looks like it is an equal-opportunity annoyer. I will probably not go see it - I'm saving up to see Angelina Jolie in eyepatch and flight suit in 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow' - but 'TA' isn't another 'Farenheit 9/11' - it's straight satire, probably with a few funny moments, and some folks just need to lighten up about it. Don't forget Ronald Reagan's words when somebody asked him about the viciously caricatured puppet the BBC did of him in 'Spitting Image' : he just smiled and said, "They got the hair wrong." The show didn't last much longer after that.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2004-08-02 10:45:26 AM  

#2  I read the trailer. Sounds like "Zoolander" with puppets...
Posted by: tu3031   2004-08-02 10:37:23 AM  

#1  Who cares? They're PUPPETS, Mr. senior White House adviser. Don't be so Canadian.
Posted by: ed   2004-08-02 10:13:00 AM  

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