Team America

Is Team America World Police right wing satire? Like some of the previous posts, I'd have to disagree. Rather, it's a film that freely takes jabs at both the right and the left. It patronizes the ridiculousness of conservative America's messiah complex while at the same time railing the left's uneducated bias towards all things peaceful and their willingness to accept support from oftentimes uninformed outspoken celebrities. Trey and Matt love tearing into both sides of the political spectrum, and no one is safe.

The primary reason why Team America seems conservative is because of the comedic realm's general reluctance to tease its allies. What are comedians often times? Movie stars. However, cats like Matt Stone and Trey Parker are definitely not movie stars (has anyone seen BASEketball?). Instead they are Hollywood outsiders that don't really have a place in mainstream entertainment because of their complete unharnessed ridiculing of those around them (Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin). This alienation gives them the liberty to not only tease the already teased, but lampoon the unlampooned (bad word choice, I know) which gives them a whole new realm of unused material.

Sorry about the late post.