With Team America, Trey Parker and Matt Stone have an amusing and surpisingly conservative take on the world.
The Motion Picture Association of America has given Team America: World Police an R rating for “graphic, crude and sexual humor, violent images and strong language — all involving puppets.” That about sums up the new martial-arts musical marionette movie from South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Inspired by the ’60s British TV and movie series Thunderbirds, Parker and Stone have fashioned a naughty, handsome, sporadically funny pre-election recruiting poster for U.S. military values at their most myopically heroic.
TIME.com: When Puppets Get Political — Oct. 25, 2004
When Puppets Get Political
