Review of Team America: World Police (2004) by Campbell P — 29 Jan 2016

Team America: World Police is a weirdly original concept for a film. You're not gonna find another movie about raunchy puppets taking down terrorists anywhere else. At first glance I really didn't feel like this was going to be any groundbreaking comedy and it wasn't but it was still a funny movie.

The story is about the over the top police force known as Team America. Their job is to kill all the terrorists of the world and restore peace to the world in super violent ways. When they attempt to gain access to the Middle East they realize they need the help of Gary, a Broadway actor with supreme acting talent.

As the plot moves along we find out that the biggest villain of all is one they hadn't even thought of, Kim Jong Ill. This movie has more than a few laugh out loud moments and that's half due to the controversial humor that's said through the foreigner dialogue, especially Kim's.

The fact that everyone is a puppet and the way they try to take things seriously makes it all the funnier. There are times when the comedy goes a bit too far though, like the way Gary was inducted back into Team America was a bit much.

There are plenty of gross out scenes too which was almost always funny but like I said there are times where the humor goes too far to be funny. The characters are all parodies of movies like this and actually work because I found the whole team hilarious.

The story is mean to be cliched because mainly it's making fun of the movies that aren't meant to have the cliches. So it got away with that but the writing is fairly weak. They got away with so many laughs because if the parody nature that they forgot to write clever or really witty dialogue.

I didn't write the movie or the story but I think they could've made the dialogue smart funny instead of all toilet and gore humor. The chemistry between the team is pretty realistic and kinda worked but it was a pretty short run time so they didn't have a ton of time to form it but still.

Team America has a lot of funny songs, funny characters, a funny premise, and funny slapstick humor. It may not be the most clever thing I've seen in comedy but it's a pretty funny time. B-.