# Team America World Police **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 16, 2004, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/team-america-world-police/269502 "2004-10-16T01:15:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/team-america-world-police/269502/1 "2004-10-16T01:15:18Z")
Baseketball was better. I kept waiting for the movie to get funny. It was as if they didn’t finish writing the movie. ---
**Author:** ![ThatGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e5b9ba/32.png) [@ThatGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThatGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/team-america-world-police/269502/2 "2004-10-16T05:19:46Z")
I loved it, not perfect but it had it’s moments of brilliance…such as the big speech at the end. I’ll never forget that one ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/team-america-world-police/269502/3 "2004-10-16T13:27:38Z")
You know how in SP there’re all sorts of background/conetxtual jokes in the scenery and situations? Well TAWP had lots of those. What I thought it was missing was the ‘real jokes’. Yeah, there were some funny parts. Perhaps I was just expecting too much. I though that the end speech was a bit predictable. Maybe I should’ve been drunk when I went to see it. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/team-america-world-police/269502/4 "2004-10-16T16:39:26Z")
The humor was low brow, lotsof junior high type stuff, and I loved every minute of it. I laughed my ass off. ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/team-america-world-police/269502/5 "2004-10-16T18:20:35Z")
It certainly did have its moments but it was a bit slow at times. It was an interesting idea to play it straight – I’m sure it pained Parker and Stone to hold back so much. But the few times they did bust out, it just wasn’t too funny. I think they missed alot of opportunites, but overall: Thumbs up. I had no idea Matt Damon was an antiwar activist. What was the joke about him saying “Matt Damon” like a retart? Did I miss something? ---
**Author:** ![ThatGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e5b9ba/32.png) [@ThatGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThatGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/team-america-world-police/269502/6 "2004-10-16T18:31:32Z")
Didn’t miss anything, just a “random” nonsense joke “Freedom isn’t free, it costs folks like you and me” ---
**Author:** ![Murcielago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/team-america-world-police/269502/7 "2004-10-16T18:43:32Z")
> [@KidCharlemagne](#): > > I had no idea Matt Damon was an antiwar activist. What was the joke about him saying “Matt Damon” like a retart? Did I miss something? A bit on that near the bottom of [this thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=280309) ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/team-america-world-police/269502/8 "2004-10-16T19:36:23Z")
> [@ThatGuy](#): > > Didn’t miss anything, just a “random” nonsense joke > > “Freedom isn’t free, it costs folks like you and me” $1.05 ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/team-america-world-police/269502/9 "2004-10-16T19:45:47Z")
> [@SimonX](#): > > $1.05 …A hefty fuuuckin’ fee… ---
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/team-america-world-police/269502/10 "2004-10-16T22:54:16Z")
I laughed. More than once or twice. What more can I ask for a $6.00 matinee? Well gotta go, I got quilting to do … ---
**Author:** ![Roches](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc8723/32.png) [@Roches](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roches)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/team-america-world-police/269502/11 "2004-10-17T04:45:12Z")
I was expecting this to be more political than it ended up being. And more like South Park, and less like high school. I found a few parts genuinely funny – mostly the action/spy movie parody aspects, like the training montage. (But I think there’s been at least one other movie that parodied that.) Probably the best line in the whole movie was Hans Blix threatening Kim Jong-Il with ‘serious consequences’ if he didn’t give up his weapons of mass destruction. For me, anyway – most people weren’t laughing. There was some really gratuitous product placement that seemed to end (except for one scene) about a third of the way through the movie. I suppose one could say that was a parody of excessive product placement in Bond movies, but that doesn’t mean they weren’t getting paid for them. At the end, I noticed that there was a third writer credited besides Parker and Stone. I wondered how much of the movie was actually written by ‘the creators of South Park’ – much of it really seemed to be just _trying_ to be South Park. There was one possible joke that I’m sure no one in the theater got – and maybe the creators don’t even know they made it. There’s a dogfight scene between Team America and a huge number of North Korean/terrorist planes. The planes resembled [MiG-15 Fagots](http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/air_power/ap42.htm). Hee-hee, hee-hee. (Related jokes were made maybe a hundred other times, so maybe they did know.) ---
**Author:** ![sleeping](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@sleeping](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeping)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/team-america-world-police/269502/12 "2004-10-17T06:17:26Z")
Saw it today. It was definitely low-brow, but there were some great jokes. Some of my favorites: “America is being attacked by a giant socialist weasel.” The running joke about puppets and wooden acting. The Pearl Harbor Sucks song. And, of course, the final speech. Although the scene in which Gary performs fellatio on Spottswoode could’ve been funnier. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/team-america-world-police/269502/13 "2004-10-17T06:26:27Z")
Since everyone else is posting their favorite jokes, I’ll post mine. I’m not going to box it because those boxes are a real pain in the ass for non-IE browsers, so… _ **SPOILERS** _ One of the team is shooting for a terrorist with a shoulder mounted Surface-to-Air missle. He misses it, hitting the Eiffel Tower, which falls over and crushes the Arc-de-Triumph. Then he says, nonchalantly, “Damn, I missed.” 😃 > [@sleeping](#): > > Although the scene in which Gary performs fellatio on Spottswoode could’ve been funnier. That scene was pure genius. It’s 100% unfunny and completely leaves you hanging and thinking: wtf 😕? Then the payoff comes ten minutes later :D. Genius! ---
**Author:** ![fc1114](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@fc1114](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fc1114)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/team-america-world-police/269502/14 "2004-10-17T06:38:13Z")
One of the funniest movies I’ve seen all year, up there with Anchorman. And that vomit scene… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![JoeSki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/team-america-world-police/269502/15 "2004-10-17T06:39:42Z")
Funniest movie of the year. I laughed and laughed and laughed untill I could laugh no more, and then had to giggle in my head as I sat comatose in the theater chair. As I gained my ability to laugh again on the drive home, I burst out laughing again. Hysterical! I only wish there were more songs. My favorite one was “Pearl Harbor sucked, and I miss you”. I remember hearing Michael Moore was supposed to do a song and dance. I was dissapointed to see there wasn’t such a scene ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/team-america-world-police/269502/16 "2004-10-17T07:02:29Z")
Favorite line: “Your skills have decreased with age, Ms. Sarandon.” ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/team-america-world-police/269502/17 "2004-10-17T07:36:24Z")
I have to say that the first half was truly a riot, but the second half… Huh, Tray. We get it already! You were raped as a youngster by the F.A.G, We did not need the last half to be about why you hate Hollywood! 😛 I was disappointed in the sense that I was seeing a good mix of left and right targets being shot during the first half (the whole “policemen of the world”, doing more harm that actual good, was excellent parody), the last half was just like “Fuck it, lets just show the left as traitors”. Disappointed in the sense that Tray and Parker had shown before the gift of being equal opportunity offenders, I would have loved to see Arnold Schwarzenegger make at least a cameo for fairness sake, but no. Good for a matinee only. ---
**Author:** ![yola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/48db29/32.png) [@yola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yola)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/team-america-world-police/269502/18 "2004-10-17T07:45:12Z")
Next Global Announcement “World Police on the Move” At a theatre near you soon. [http://nord.twu.net/acl/](http://nord.twu.net/acl/) ---
**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 17, 2004, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/team-america-world-police/269502/19 "2004-10-17T08:18:26Z")
I gotta admit, the “America, fuck YEAH!” song cracked me right up, as did the “panthers”, but some jokes were beaten to death and well into the afterlife. Also, it seemed pretty obvious to me that the limo driver was a female character wearing a fake mustache, but after the celebratory cocktail party he/she vanished, without explanation. I get the impression a scene was cut somewhere along the way. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/team-america-world-police/269502/20 "2004-10-17T08:27:04Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > I gotta admit, the “America, fuck YEAH!” song cracked me right up, as did the “panthers”, but some jokes were beaten to death and well into the afterlife. Yea…the “signal” that the actor (as Hachmed) gave was one of the funniest gags in the movie, but they did it exactly one time too many. > [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Also, it seemed pretty obvious to me that the limo driver was a female character wearing a fake mustache, but after the celebratory cocktail party he/she vanished, without explanation. I get the impression a scene was cut somewhere along the way. I noticed that too. I hope the DVD of this is better than the suckfest, featureless _Bigger, Longer, and Uncut_ DVD. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/team-america-world-police/269502.md?page=2)