# Saw sneak preview of "Team America World Police" - SPOILERS **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 11, 2004, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-sneak-preview-of-team-america-world-police-spoilers/268651 "2004-10-11T15:40:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nausicaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@Nausicaa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nausicaa)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2004, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-sneak-preview-of-team-america-world-police-spoilers/268651/1 "2004-10-11T15:40:07Z")
Last Saturday I went to the sneak preview of _“Team America World Police”_ with my husband. I’m not a big fan of the South Park guys but my husband is and so I got dragged along. Hint - if you are a big fan of South Park you’ll love this movie, if you are kind of iffy about them - don’t go. I won’t spoil anything but marionettes doing martial arts is pretty funny but marionette sex is pretty disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2004, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-sneak-preview-of-team-america-world-police-spoilers/268651/2 "2004-10-11T16:01:34Z")
saw this at a preview Saturday night. A brilliant movie, and the funniest movie I’ve see all year (and yes, I’ve seen Harold & Kumar go to White Castle). I really loved how Trey & Matt didn’t try in the least to distract the audience from remembering that they were the South Park guys (they even used the same voices and a song straight from South Park), although those of you looking for Cartman making a cameo appearance are gonna be disappointed. I was pretty disturbed by the number of children who were at this screening. Especially since as I was walking out of the theater, I saw something straight out of the first South Park movie — a bunch of kids singing “America! Fuck yeah!”. I wonder if their parents/teachers are going to be caught in an indecision as to whether to punish them for using that kind of language, or praising them for having so much American pride. Of course, knowing this “great” American society, I’m sure the people of authority are going to get more rallied up over the 1 minute sex scene (keep in mind these are with PUPPETS who were just carved wood under their clothes, no genitalia applied) than all the language and questionable taste. Still, if you’re mature enough to handle puppet sex, go see it. It’s incredible. ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2004, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-sneak-preview-of-team-america-world-police-spoilers/268651/3 "2004-10-11T17:59:16Z")
My review I posted on an LJ community: Saw _Team America: World Police_ on a sneak preview last night. There’s something for everyone in this movie… to be offended by, that is. It might be the puppet sex, the ample profanity, maybe the extreme violence (some of the marionettes were stuffed with raw meat so as to splatter when shot or exploded) or possibly the comparison of political hawks & doves to dicks & pussies in an astonishingly vulgar, but oddly apt metaphor at the climax of the movie. Parker and Stone have yet again created a movie equally offensive and hilarious - they take potshots at both sides of the political aisle, turn a funhouse mirror on the action movie genre and destroy a hell of a lot of puppets in the process. I’m not sure if I’d go so far as to call this the “anti-Fahrenheit 9/11 movie” - but IMHO, it’s got some equally valid things to say about current issues, without ever mentioning Bush or Kerry. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2004, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-sneak-preview-of-team-america-world-police-spoilers/268651/4 "2004-10-11T20:08:50Z")
> [@](#): > > (some of the marionettes were stuffed with raw meat so as to splatter when shot or exploded) Wait, they used actual marionettes? I had figured that it was all CG, just done up to make it look like marionettes. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2004, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-sneak-preview-of-team-america-world-police-spoilers/268651/5 "2004-10-11T23:08:00Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Wait, they used actual marionettes? I had figured that it was all CG, just done up to make it look like marionettes. Real marionettes, and real miniature sets. For some “impossible” shots, old-school FX. No major CGI. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2004, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-sneak-preview-of-team-america-world-police-spoilers/268651/6 "2004-10-11T23:16:29Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Real marionettes, and real miniature sets. For some “impossible” shots, old-school FX. No major CGI. Parker and Stone were on the Tonight Show last week discussing this. They said they had no clue how hard it was to make a puppet movie. Instead on the puppeteers being just a few feet above the puppets, there were 10-15 feet off the stage due to the enormous sets. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-sneak-preview-of-team-america-world-police-spoilers/268651/7 "2004-10-12T00:05:10Z")
Movie fans want to know – which is more awful, puppet sex or Wookie sex? ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-sneak-preview-of-team-america-world-police-spoilers/268651/8 "2004-10-12T00:19:31Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Parker and Stone were on the Tonight Show last week discussing this. They said they had no clue how hard it was to make a puppet movie. > > Instead on the puppeteers being just a few feet above the puppets, there were 10-15 feet off the stage due to the enormous sets. Yeah, there’s one where one of them is saying “We have 50 takes on film of trying to get a puppet to drink out of a glass, and usually tossing it over thier shoulder instead” ---
**Author:** ![robertliguori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-sneak-preview-of-team-america-world-police-spoilers/268651/9 "2004-10-12T05:03:13Z")
> [@fusoya](#): > > …(keep in mind these are with PUPPETS who were just carved wood under their clothes, no genitalia applied)… Carved wood… Oh. Nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-sneak-preview-of-team-america-world-police-spoilers/268651/10 "2004-10-12T13:08:19Z")
> [@Politzania](#): > > marionettes were stuffed with raw meat so as to splatter when shot or exploded. Cool. Never saw _that_ on _Thunderbirds_. ---
**Author:** ![Murcielago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-sneak-preview-of-team-america-world-police-spoilers/268651/11 "2004-10-14T18:31:18Z")
The marionettes also have animatronic heads, which afford them a limited range of facial expression. I saw the movie last night, and though I think the first half-hour drags a bit, the last hour is great. A number of bits, like the somber version of “America, fuck yeah!” in the second act, had me rolling. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-sneak-preview-of-team-america-world-police-spoilers/268651/12 "2004-10-14T20:49:32Z")
I cannot get “America, Fuck Yeah!” out of my head and I know I’m going to wind up singing it on the phone with one of my users on the line. Make sure to sit through all the credits to hear one last song that was not featured in the movie. That’s a form of credit cookie I’ve not “seen” before. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-sneak-preview-of-team-america-world-police-spoilers/268651/13 "2004-10-14T21:04:58Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Wait, they used actual marionettes? I had figured that it was all CG, just done up to make it look like marionettes. The “panthers” should’ve tipped you off. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-sneak-preview-of-team-america-world-police-spoilers/268651/14 "2004-10-15T05:22:28Z")
On some reflection, I figure _America; Fuck, Yeah!_ will end up in the same category as _Born in the USA_, in that they each have a stirring, patriotic-sounding chorus, and will be sung endlessly by people who have no clue what the songs are actually about. And, yes, the line is stuck in my head. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-sneak-preview-of-team-america-world-police-spoilers/268651/15 "2004-10-15T13:29:07Z")
Saw it last night and enjoyed it—very funny, in a hit-you-over-the-head way. • You know how bad the celebrity caricatures are on _South Park_? They’re as bad here. They really needed to hire a good caricaturist. • The marionettes’ faces are eerily realistic, and some of the “acting” is better than what I’ve seen from so-called live performers (you know who you are!). • Marionette sex—hot! Marionette puking—not so much. • I am _so_ going to buy the soundtrack. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-sneak-preview-of-team-america-world-police-spoilers/268651/16 "2004-10-15T13:55:36Z")
> [@](#): > > You know how bad the celebrity caricatures are on South Park? They’re as bad here. They really needed to hire a good caricaturist. I think the bad caricatures are by design in South Park ;). ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-sneak-preview-of-team-america-world-police-spoilers/268651/17 "2004-10-15T14:12:48Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > I think the bad caricatures are by design in South Park ;). Well, here, I think they were actually _trying_ really hard to make marionettes that looked like Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Alec Baldwin, etc., and failed miserably. It’s a pretty minor quibble, though. And the Kim Jong Il marionette was excellent. ---
**Author:** ![beergeek279](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@beergeek279](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beergeek279)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-sneak-preview-of-team-america-world-police-spoilers/268651/18 "2004-10-15T16:17:26Z")
I definitely want to go out and see it (if I didn’t have homeworks to grade today and a poker game tonight, I’d definitely consider it). I think the main amusement will be when left-wingers call it too right-wing and right-wingers call it too left-wing :). ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-sneak-preview-of-team-america-world-police-spoilers/268651/19 "2004-10-15T16:56:39Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Well, here, I think they were actually _trying_ really hard to make marionettes that looked like Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Alec Baldwin, etc., and failed miserably. [More on that:](http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2004/10/10/puppet_masters/) > [@](#): > > The “South Park” guys, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, don’t actually think he’s an idiot. The opposite, in fact. But the look-alike they made to play him in their new, all-marionette movie didn’t look quite right. The result: Matt Damon as moron, a standout of stupidity among the Hollywood liberals sent up on strings in “Team America: World Police.” > > As Parker explained, “Unfortunately for Matt, what happened was we got the puppets back and we were like, `That doesn't look like Matt Damon. He looks retarded -- dude, he looks totally retarded. What are we going to do?' We're like, `Well, let’s make him retarded. . . . I really do sort of despise Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn way more. It’s just how the Matt Damon puppet turned out. So, sorry, Matt.” ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-sneak-preview-of-team-america-world-police-spoilers/268651/20 "2004-10-15T17:03:50Z")
To be fair, the Helen Hunt puppet was spot on. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-sneak-preview-of-team-america-world-police-spoilers/268651.md?page=2)