Team America, probably the most expensive and most successful puppet movie of all time, has been getting rave reviews from just about all my friends that have seen it. What about the critics?
E! Online provides a synopsis: “In Team America, puppets sing, dance, explode, curse, puke and perform oral sex. In other words, it's exactly what you'd expect from South Park masterminds Trey Parker and Matt Stone.” Planet Sick-Boy writes Team America “made me laugh so hard, I almost blew snot all over my own mother. She was amused by neither the snot nor the film. Who could blame her? Nobody wants to watch naked marionettes pretzeled together in the Daisy Chain-Helicopter position while sitting next to a relative.” The Flick Filospher thinks, “If everyone else -- the Michael Moores and the Swift Boat Veterans and the Al Frankens and the Rush Limbaughs -- has been preaching to their own friendly choirs, Trey Parker and Matt Stone are dragging all those competing choirs out onto Main Street, farting on them, and telling them they're all full of shit.” The Filthy Critic doesn’t like it that much, calling it “a movie that plays like a really bad Hot Shots, but with puppets to add that extra little bit of shittiness.” And the Christian Spotlight on Entertainment refused to endorse the film, instead directing readers to other films (G-Rated) featuring puppets.
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