I tried watching 'Team America- World Police' last night

[grumbledoak]

You've got to take the rough with the smooth. It's alternately dreadful and hilarious.

[geeks]

hora said:

I've tried watching it before and only gotten 10mins in. This time I sat through 35mins.



Now I love South Park, I grew up on it dammit however can someone explain Team America to me? Its hideously bad. Or am I missing something?

No i think it is supposed to be like that, some of it is very good if you stick with it (which i am not suggesting you do, cant blame me, no sir!)

[justanother5tar]

I enjoyed it.

Probably says more about me than it does you though.

[jimmyt1202]

I remember watching it when it first came out and I was 15. To this day I don't think I've ever laughed as hard as I did when I saw the puking in the alley scene.

[Steamer]

Love South Park - but struggled with this one too.

[thismonkeyhere]

fk yeah!

[Speed Badger]

jimmyt1202 said:

I remember watching it when it first came out and I was 15. To this day I don't think I've ever laughed as hard as I did when I saw the puking in the alley scene.

Randomly, I watched this a couple of weeks ago when channel hopping and it had just started. I can echo this comment as the puking scene had me laughing so hard I was crying and verging on wetting my pantaloons. I am 31. It is a great, stupid movie.

[HTP99]

Everyone has AIDS!
AIDS AIDS AIDS!
AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS!
Everyone has AIDS!

And so this is the end of our story
And everyone is dead from AIDS
It took from me my best friend
My only true pal
My only bright star (he died of AIDS)

Well I'm gonna march on Washington
Lead the fight and charge the brigades
There's a hero inside of all of us
I'll make them see everyone has AIDS

My father (AIDS!)
My sister (AIDS!)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS AIDS AIDS!)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades

Everyone has AIDS!
My grandma and my dog 'ol blue (AIDS AIDS AIDS)
The pope has got it and so do you (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
C'mon everybody we got quilting to do (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
We gotta break down these baricades, everyone has
AIDS!

[PAULJ5555]

I liked it, bad acting but with puppets is all part of the film.

Never got into South Park thou.

[rb5er]

Its amazing. Now suck my cock.

[Cotty]

I'm So Ronery
So ronery
So ronery and sadry arone

[durbster]

Team America is one of only two films where I thought I was going to suffocate from laughing so hard in the cinema (the other being Austin Powers).

The opening scene sets the humour and satirical tone perfectly so if you aren't on-board with either of those aspects by the time the Eiffel Tower falls, you probably won't enjoy the rest of the film.

It's not perfect; it runs out of steam and the saturation of jokes means a few missed marks, but overall it's a superb satire of western attitudes to terrorism that's still just as valid today, sadly.

And I still think it's bloody funny.

[HD Adam]

Hans Brix?

[Quickmoose]

Matt Daaamon....

it is rubbish...but has a lot of quotable funny rubbish in it...

[FourWheelDrift]

Durka Durka, Mohammed Jihad.

[Negative Creep]

As celebrities, it's our duty to see things on the news, and repeat them as if it were our own opinion. That's the F.A.G way


That's why I've always loved their work, they attack both sides of the political spectrum

[JakeT]

FourWheelDrift said:

Durka Durka, Mohammed Jihad.

Ohhhh Durka Durka!

[Zod]

For me, the least funny parts are the puking in the alley, AIMDS musical and "suck my cock" bits. The Bakaladaka Street and Kim Jong-Il parts are some of the funniest things I've ever seen.

You have to make fun of the nastiest people and every time I see ISIS scum on the news, I hear "Bakalakadaka, durka durka, Jihad Mohamed!" in my head

[marcosgt]

It's very funny in parts (I love the beginning where they 'save' Paris!) and dreadful in others.

I guess the "Thunderbirds" style puppets is another aspect that appeals to me as someone brought up in the era of Gerry Anderson puppet Sci-Fi (The puppet porn interlude is another that's making me laugh remembering it now!).

I can see why people don't find it funny (I've raised no more than a slight smile at Austin Powers, for example), but I think it's VERY funny on balance, but as some said, it's a roller-coaster.

M.

[S10GTA]

I think its an age/time thing. It was released in 2004 and those who were the right age and watched it at the time have it down as a cult film (I'm one of them) but I reckon if I came to it now being 11 years down the line I'm not sure I'd get it.