Team America: World Police (2004)

Regisseur:

Trey Parker

Drehbuchautoren (WGA):

Trey Parker (written by) &
Matt Stone (written by) ...

Premierendatum:

15. Oktober 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Trickfilm | Action | Abenteuer | Komödie

Werbezeile:

Putting the "F" back in Freedom.

Plot:

Popular Broadway actor Gary Johnston is recruited by the elite counter-terrorism organization Team America: World Police. As the world begins to crumble around him, he must battle with terrorists, celebrities and falling in love.

Plot Keywords:

Altered Version Of Studio Logo | Times Square | Suicide Pill | Bomb | Breast Suckling

Filmpreise:

1 win & 7 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

A Nutshell Review: Team America World Police

Besetzung

Trey Parker	...	Gary Johnston / Joe / Kim Jong Il / Hans Blix / Carson / Matt Damon / Drunk in Bar / Tim Robbins / Sean Penn / Michael Moore / Helen Hunt / Susan Sarandon / Others (voice)
Matt Stone	...	Chris / George Clooney / Danny Glover / Ethan Hawke / Matt Damon / Additional Voices (voice)
Kristen Miller	...	Lisa (voice)
Masasa Moyo	...	Sarah (voice) (as Masasa)
Daran Norris	...	Spottswoode (voice)
Phil Hendrie	...	I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. / Chechnyan Terrorist (voice)
Maurice LaMarche	...	Alec Baldwin (voice)
Chelsea Marguerite	...	French Mother (voice)
Jeremy Shada	...	Jean Francois (voice)
Fred Tatasciore	...	Samuel L. Jackson (voice)

Alternativ:

American Heroes (USA) (working title)
Team America (Deutschland)
Untitled Trey Parker/Matt Stone Project (USA) (working title)
Team America (Österreich) [de]

MPAA:

Rated R for graphic crude and sexual humor, violent images and strong language - all involving puppets.

Länge:

98 Min

Produktionsland:

USA | Deutschland

Sprache:

Englisch | Französisch | Klingonisch | Koreanisch | Arabisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Altersfreigabe:

Chile:14 | Iceland:14 (original rating) | Sweden:11 | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Australia:MA | Brazil:18 | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:16+ (Québec) (unrated version) | Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) (unrated version) | Canada:R (unrated version) | Czech Republic:15 | Finland:K-15 | France:U | Germany:16 | Ireland:16 (original rating) | Ireland:18 (video rating) | Italy:T | Malaysia:(Banned) | Netherlands:12 | New Zealand:R16 | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:M18 (cut) | Spain:18 | UK:15 | USA:NC-17 (original rating) | USA:R (edited for re-rating) | Argentina:18 | Japan:R-18 | USA:Unrated (uncut DVD version) | Canada:18A (Ontario) (rated version) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) (rated version)

Drehorte:

Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, USA

Firma:

Paramount Pictures

Dies und das:

The tavern scene is an homage to the Mos Eisley Cantina scene in Star Wars (1977). Many of the same camera angles and character positions are used, and many shots are replicated. The band is using the same instruments as the Cantina band and are playing a sound-alike which follows the chord progression of the original "Cantina Band Song."

Pannen:

Fehler, die von Charakteren gemacht werden (möglicherweise Absicht der Filmemacher): When the world leaders meet at Kim Jong Il's peace conference the sign above Tony Blair's head reads as England. Tony Blair is Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (which consists of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), not just England.

Dialogzitate:

[first lines]
French puppeteer: Sacre bleu!
[gibberish]
French puppeteer: Oh, hello!
French Mother: Jean-Francois? Jean-Francois?

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweist auf/spielt an auf/erwähnt Pearl Harbor (2001)

Soundtrack:

Montage

A Nutshell Review: Team America World Police

This movie is crude, rude, politically incorrect, but hell yeah, a whole lot of fun! Well, what do you expect from the makers of South Park?

The setting of the movie is Today - in the wake of 9/11 and of transnational terrorism. Team America's the world police, equipped with "Thunderbirds"-like firepower and fancy transportation, whose mission is to strike at terrorists around the world. And what more, the main baddie's North Korea's Kim Jong Il and his band of middle eastern terrorist posse with WMD... hmm... a little too close to reality for comfort?

This film is so full of itself/America that it gets most of its laughs from there. From location settings that takes reference point from America, to the current inane insensitivity of American forces on foreign soil, to pointing fingers at bad Intelligence, it is all insane fun from the beginning when pandemonium strikes, that you start to wonder who actually does more damage - Team America, or the terrorists themselves.

Another highlight of this movie is the songs! When you first hear the Team America Theme, with it's "America! F* YEAH!", you know you'd had better pay attention to the lyrics of songs to come, some of which pokes fun at Pearl Harbour, pokes fun at film-making (the use of montages), and you even have Kim Jong Il doing a solo number! As with most slapstick comedies, sometimes you just gotta spoof some classics, which includes Star Wars, Matrix and Top Gun. Also, if you enjoy MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch, then you'll also enjoy the numerous fight sequences in Team America, which is just as creative in its decapitations, and as bloody.

Another infamous scene that got a lot of attention, was the sex scene between 2 lead puppets. It's no holds barred, puppetry porn. Whatever positions you can think of, it's mimicked on screen. Moreover, the conversational dialogue that led them to making love, is totally inane.

Look out for appearances by familiar Hollywood faces, and political figures like Hans Blix, Tony Blair, etc, used without their kind permission more like, as they're put in really bad, but hilarious, light.

America, F* YEAH!