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October 15th, 2004 |
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Not Rated |
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Paramount Pictures |
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Overwiew :Team America, an international police force dedicated to maintaining global stability, learns that a power hungry dictator is brokering weapons of mass destruction to terrorists. The heroes embark upon a harrowing mission to save the world. To infiltrate the terrorist network, Team America recruits Gary Johnston, a rising star on Broadway, to go undercover. Although initially reluctant to sacrifice his promising career, Gary realizes that his acting gift is needed for a higher cause. With the help of fellow Team America members, Chris, Sarah, Lisa, Joe and Spottswoode, Gary slips into an arms dealer's hideout where he discovers that the terrorists' plot has already begun to unfold. From the pyramids of Cairo to the Panama Canal and the finally to the palace of power-mad dictator, Kim Jong II, Team America criss-crosses the globe on a desperate mission to preserve the very fabric of civilization. |
Starring :
Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Elle Russ, Stanley G. Sawicki
Directors :
Trey Parker, Matt Stone
Producers :
Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Scott Rudin
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www.hollywoodreporter.com - : Hollywood Reporter - The film starts off with promise. In a fairy-tale set of Paris -- where the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Louvre and Opera House all crowd the same city square -- a team of gung-ho All-American fighters destroys much of Paris in the process of rescuing the city from Arab terrorists. When one of the superheroes is killed, the team's leader, Spottswoode (Daran Norris), must recruit a new hero. more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : Chicago Sun-Times - The plot seems like a collision at the screenplay factory between several half-baked world-in-crisis movies. Team America, a group not unlike the Thunderbirds, bases its rockets, jets and helicopters inside Mount Rushmore, which is hollow, and race off to battle terrorism wherever it is suspected. In the opening sequence, they swoop down on Paris and fire on caricatures of Middle East desperadoes more...
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query.nytimes.com - : New York Times - The team is led by a debonair super spy, Spottswoode, and their newest recruit is Gary Johnston, a Broadway musical performer (first seen appearing in a spot-on, devastating parody of ''Rent''), who is recruited for his acting ability. Gary goes through the usual three-act gamut of rivalry more...
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www.eonline.com - : E! Online - Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Enlisting a cast of marionettes (à la '60s series Thunderbirds) as its stars, the flick finds jingoistic do-gooders taking down terrorists and accidentally laying waste to everything they see--all in the name of freedom! more...
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