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.
Team America: World Police is a 2004 American-German satirical action comedy film starring puppets produced by Scott Rudin, Matt Stone, and Trey Parker, written by Parker, Stone and Pam Brady and directed by Parker, all of whom are also known for the popular animated television series South Park.
The film stars Parker, Stone, Kristen Miller, Masasa Moyo, Daran Norris, Phil Hendrie, Maurice LaMarche, Chelsea Marguerite, Jeremy Shada, and Fred Tatasciore, and is a satire of big-budget action films and their associated clichés and stereotypes, with particular humorous emphasis on the global implications of the politics of the United States. The 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”. Featuring a cast of supermarionettes, Team America depicts a paramilitary police known as “Team America: World Police”, who attempt to save the world from a terrorist plot led by Kim Jong-il.
Team America: World Police (2004)
Directed by: Trey Parker
Starring: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Elle Russ, Kristen Miller, Masasa Moyo, Daran Norris, Phil Hendrie, Maurice LaMarche, Chelsea Marguerite, Jeremy Shada, Fred Tatasciore
Screenplay by: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Pam Brady
Production Design by: Jim Dultz
Cinematography by: Bill Pope
Film Editing by: Thomas M. Vogt
Music by: Harry Gregson-Williams
MPAA Rating: R for graphic crude humor, violent images and strong language – all involving puppets.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: October 15, 2004
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