Team America: World Police


Team America World Police is a 2004 American satirical action comedy film written by Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Pam Brady and directed by Parker, all of whom are also known for the popular animated television series South Park. The film is a satire of bigbudget action films and their associated clichs and stereotypes, with particular humorous emphasis on the global implications of the politics of the United States. The films title is derived from domestic and international political criticisms that the foreign policy of the United States frequently and unilaterally tries to police the world. The film features a cast composed of supermarionettes. Team America focuses on a fictional team of political paramilitary policemen known as Team America World Police, who attempt to save the world from a violent terrorist plot led by Kim Jongil.

Team America World Police, a paramilitary antiterrorism force, has a home base located inside Mount Rushmore. The team comprises Lisa, a psychologist Carson, her love interest Sarah, an alleged psychic Joe, a jock who is in love with Sarah and Chris, a martial arts expert who harbors a deep mistrust of actors. The team is led by Spottswoode and a supercomputer named I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E.. Having tracked down a group of terrorists in Paris, France, the team inadvertently destroys the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe and the Louvre during a huge gun battle, causing more destruction than the terrorists could have ever dreamed of. The team, however, regard this as a success. Carson proposes to Lisa, but a surviving terrorist guns him down. As a replacement, Spottswoode recruits Gary Johnston, a Broadway actor with college majors in Theater and World Languages. Unbeknownst to the team, North Korean dictator Kim Jongil is supplying international terrorists with weapons of mass destruction.Using his acting skills, Gary successfully infiltrates a terrorist group in Cairo, Egypt. The team manages to kill the terrorists and foil their plot, but the city is left in ruins. For their actions regarding Cairo, the team is criticized by the Film Actors Guild F.A.G., a union of liberal Hollywood actors led by Garys favorite actor, Alec Baldwin, and also consists of Matt Damon, Liv Tyler, Samuel L. Jackson, Janeane Garofalo, George Clooney, Susan Sarandon, Ethan Hawke, Helen Hunt, Martin Sheen, Danny Glover, Sean Penn and Tim Robbins. As the team relaxes following their victory, Gary tells Lisa about his childhood his acting talent caused his brother to be killed by gorillas. While the two express their feelings and have sex, a group of terrorists blow up the Panama Canal as retaliation for what had happened to Cairo. ........

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