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Posted by Steve 2004-08-02 9:36:49 AM|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#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||   2004-08-02 10:13:00 AM|| Front Page Top

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

#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||   2004-08-02 10:45:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| [http://balticblog.blogspot.com]  2004-08-02 10:51:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Popcorn! Who wants popcorn!!!
Posted by Sgt. Mom 2004-08-02 11:14:48 AM|| [www.sgtstryker.com]  2004-08-02 11:14:48 AM|| Front Page Top

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

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-08-02 1:46:18 PM||   2004-08-02 1:46:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| [politicaljunky.blogspot.com]  2004-08-02 2:10:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#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||   2004-08-02 2:33:37 PM|| Front Page Top

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

#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||   2004-08-02 9:09:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 "They killed Osma!. Basatards!"

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

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