REVIEW: Team America: World Police

Well, I proved to Ward just how loyal a friend I was this weekend (Thursday night, actually) by allowing myself to be dragged to see a showing of Team America: World Police here in Kentucky. Yes, that is right, despite my protestations of preferring hot coals in my mouth to seeing this Trey Parker, Matt Stone production, I actually went. And I seem to have an absolutely unique reaction to this marionette-addled film: I neither absolutely hated it, nor found it irresistibly funny. (Check out CNN for the hysterically lavish type and Ebert for the horrified type of review.) My review? Eh.



The Good:

1. The montage song is hilarious. The Groomsmen were singing it randomly all weekend.
2. The fate of Hans Blix is something many of us have desired to see from petty U.N. bureaucrats who think their existence justifies their position
3. It was an insightful send-up of Armageddon-style action movies that completely lack logic.
4. Durka durka.

The Bad:

1. The puppet sex scene was pointless. If you wanted sexy, it ain't. If you wanted clean and funny, it weren't.
2. The language was bad even in places where it added neither to the humor, nor the parody aspect. But I know that is just how these guys talk.
3. Michael Moore got off easy (yes, even with the shown fate). And that comes from a fan of most of his work.
4. Enough with the gay humor already. To gays, it must be insulting. And to straights, it was just repetitive and 4th grade humor.
5. It was WAY too long, for what it was.

There you have it. Nomad's review of the most "Eh" film of the year. Of course, I must admit Ward's best man, who hates puppets and marionette things, laughed so hard that he was doubled-over for most of the movie.