Team America: World Police is a perfect movie. It’s ok if you disagree, but any film that can blow up the most notable monuments in France within ten minutes of the opening credits earns a special place in my heart. The fact that it’s done by marionettes is just icing on the already demented cake.
While chasing a terrorist through Paris, Team America proceeds to fire a rocket at one lone man, missing by a wide margin and instead knocking the Eiffel Tower onto the Arc de Triomphe. How do they react? “Damn, I missed him!” Outdoing themselves, they send a missile into the Louvre, killing the terrorist and disintegrating art beyond value.
Political undertones and pure satire run through the veins of Team America, but you can’t deny that the gleeful destruction of a stereotypical Paris (those three monuments are nowhere near each other) is hilarious at any time. It doesn’t take Michael Bay to create the best explosions, because the best ones are those perpetrated by puppets that sound like Randy Marsh.
Published: Jun 28, 2013 11:08 am