Film Review: Team America: World Police

[yesthattom]

Wow, how hilarious and annoyingly homophobic all mixed into one. Their previous movies were better.

Comments

[dieppe.livejournal.com]

I can say that I loved Team America (Fuck yeah!)... but my caveat was that if one was in anyway sensitive to possible homophobia such as one sees in South Park... I mean the "Film Actors Guild" and all...

And blowing up of Michael Moore.. a little over the top.. but I thought that the insulting of the "other side" was well done too. Blowing up of both Paris and Cairo to get terrorists...

I think they've said something like they intend to be offensive to people of all political persuasions and what not... So they don't let up on anybody. I can see that... and understanding that I can laugh with them but not necessarily be on their side, ya know? :)

[moose]

I thought it was absolutely fucking hysterical.

One of the things I love about the South Park guys is that they attack everything. Nothing goes unscathed. I love it to pieces.

[On a side comment -- when the 2nd Austin Powers movie came out some of the fat-acceptance activists I know of went bananas over the whole "Fat Bastard" character. They pretty much said, "It was a really funny movie but that 'Fat Bastard' character was too offensive."

I promptly raked them over hot burning coals. If you laugh at one type of joke -- racist, lookist, sexual, religious, whatever -- but then suddenly grind to a halt because YOUR pet cause was insulted, you're really just a bigot too. You're just select in what you're bigotted over.

And as a side comment to the side comment, in the middle of that discussion one gentleman, about 6'6' and weighing about 600 lbs, said that, while strolling around a store, a small child had run up to him and yelled, "Fat Bastard!" So he yelled back, in the deepest growly voice he could manage, "GET IN MAH BELLY!"

The child ran away screaming.]

p.s. YOU'RE BREAKING MY BALLS HERE.
p.p.s. :-)

Fat Bastard

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

I was offended not because he was fat, but because he was utterly and gratuitously disgusting. :-}

The story about scaring the small child, though? Priceless!