Just saw Team America funny and sucky all at once

[Guava Jelly]

Now my mind is in the gutter 24/7 the puppet sex was hilarious the songs were funny as hell "freedom cost a buck o Five"
but the bullshit about the celebritys being traitors pissed me off.
I think alienating your audience with right wing bullshit is just ignorant.
Now i know it was a spoof and i have a sense of humor But i felt hollow leaving the theatre.The south park guys whom i usually just love thier work have just put a rock in my gut that will allways be there when i see Southpark or anything they do.
They had an oportunity with this movie they blew it in my eyes.
They basically told hollywood to shut up.Yet they said or did nothing about the right wing hollywooders or the rightwing assholes on the other side.
I will never pay to see another matt and trey movie again.
if ignorance is bliss they must be euphoric

[Democat]

1. Parker and Stone are Bush ass kissers who pretend not to be

Fox claims to be fair and balanced, Parker and Stone claim to attack both sides equally.

Neither is true. Parker and Stone, like Fox, are right wing ass kissers.

[rockydem]

2. fuck 'em

they are playing the hall monitors they used to despise...

they are PC now - they have become what they used to hate...

fuck 'em...

I hope Sean Penn kicks their asses.

[Cat Atomic]

3. It was 30 minutes of comedy stretched to an hour and a half.

You know they're low on material when they start repeating the same gags. They referenced the Matrix slow-mo karate scene TWICE.

The movie has some really funny moments, like the "America... fuck, yeah!" song. For awhile I thought they might continue to parody the whole "uberpatriotism" thing, but they didn't. They just kind of wandered off into multiple directions.

It was like they didn't know anything about the subjects they were trying to poke fun at. It felt like a junior high schooler's shot at parody. To really mock something you've got to understand it.

It was a very weak flick, IMHO. It wasn't their politics that ruined it for me though- it was the unfocussed, lack of material.

[greenman3610]

4. my take

was that they made a big deal out of calling hollywood lefites
"pussies", but in the whole 2 hours they never made fun
of anyone with any REAL power, ie Bush/Cheney/Ashcroft etc

so who's the pussy?

[Cha]

11. matt and trey!

But they can't see that since they have their heads' up their collective ass!

[Radio-Active]

5. their message is that ..

celibrities should shut up about politics. They seem to be saying that the mere fact of a liberal's celebrity disqualifies any of his/her political opinions.

Their work is very political, so this is the ultimate hypocrisy coming from "opinionated celebrities" like Parker and Stone.

[Cha]

12. It's so weirdly hypocritical...

Bradford Whitley was on "real time" with bill maher Friday night and he RAWKED..shutting james woolsley DOWN!

Bradford is very intelligent and knows his political stuff and can say it with humor.

[stanwyck]

17. You have a point

just because someone is a celebrity doesn't mean their opinion has more resonance. But, then again, it doesn't mean it doesn't, either. And I saw Real Time Friday night and had the same thought. Bradford is a citizen. He's obviously interested and informed. More so than many of the consultants on news channels. So, why not listen to him? He brought up pertinent points and specifics while Woolsley spoke politic-ese, saying nothing germaine or insightful.

[mark414]

18. i think ya'll mean Bradley Whitford

as opposed to Bradford Whitley

[Cha]

20. Sorry, you'll have to excuse me!

:D ..Sorry, Bradley Whitford! You really did Rock on Real Time!

[NYCGirl]

21. He rocks on The West Wing, too. And he is credited by Al Franken with

the idea for the "Supply Side Jesus" comic stip in Franken's "Lying Liars" book.

[Cabbage]

6. I thought it was funny.

Sorry but I did. And I thought they made fun of the right. The heros fucked up everything they tried to help. Like America has.

I saw a Southpark where they made fun of Mel Gibson. I mean they reamed him. Made him look like a fucking nut.

I have also seen one where they make light of stemcells. Something rightwingers are serious about.

I can laugh at myself. The movie was funny.


Lighten up.

[rockydem]

8. you're right they did ream Mell Gibson - that was good

they had him hurling his own feces at the wall of cell...

all right I take back some of what I said above...

but still, they are acting like PC police...

[InfoMinister]

7. PABAAH Is Boycotting This Movie

Just noticed that they're boycotting the film.

[Cabbage]

9. How do you boycott a movie....

just not see it?


If so I have boycotted a lot of movies. And I didn't even mean to.

[InfoMinister]

10. I Guess You Have To Actually Say You Aren't Going To See It

I guess you have to make it public that you are intentionally not seeing the movie in order to boycott it.

[Cha]

13. What's "PABAAH"?

I know I won't be seeing it..but I'm not a fan anyway.

[InfoMinister]

14. It's Been Talked About Before On This Board

pabaah.com . It's a conservative boycott group.

[Cha]

16. Oh, thanks!

So the conservatives don't like it either..as well as some Dems.

[stavka]

15. It's a movie with Puppets - who gives a flying F*ck?!?

Work to win the election people, don't waste time on distractions like a puppet movie, two years from now - almost all of it commentary will be so dated even those who find it funny today, won't then.

Don't believe me? - How funny are Al Gore comedy sketches today?

PS: Not directed at you GoPsUx, directed at the post...

[Jeff1965]

19. I loved it!

I am not a big fan of South Park but I thought this movie was great.

They picked on our ham-handed military.

They picked on pompous celebrities.

But mostly they picked on bad Jerry Bruckheimer movies!

Verry funny, and I need to see it again because I was laughing so hard I missed jokes.

In the theatre I saw it, people were walking out and security wasn't allowing kids & their parents to watch the movie.