Team America World Police(Comedy)

For my movie I watched Team America World Police. I had heard many good things about the movie from friends and decided to watch it. The movie opened with an interesting shot of a marionette show, which zooms out to show it's being done by a marionette in Paris. Then all of the sudden turban wearing terrorists emerge with a case containing a bomb. A fight then ensues between the terrorists and Team America, which ends with one of the terrorists fleeing into the Louvre, intending to detonate the bomb, only to have Team America fire a missile into the building, killing the terrorist and preventing the attack on the Louvre by attacking the Louvre, bringing down the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower in the process. It was a clever and effective use of irony that I couldn't help but chuckle at, unfortunately that was the last time I did that, as the entire movie goes off a cliff. The movie follows an actor, the broadway star of "Lease" (everyone has AIDS) who is recruited to pose as a terrorist to undermine a plot by terrorists from around the world, notably Chechnya and "Durk-Durkistan." As they foil one terrorist plot while destroying half of Cairo in the process, they are then surprised by another attack on the Panama Canal, followed by a massive backlash. At this point I was absolutely certain that this was just a ham-fisted satire of crazed, reckless patriotism that destroys everything in its path. This thought was reinforced by supremely racist depictions(Gary goes undercover as a muslim by painting his face brown, gluing hair to his face, making a turban out of a bathrobe, and yelling durk duck muhammad jihad again and again), irony based mass destructions of cities by the world police, and the almost universal hatred of Team America. At that point I assumed that it was just a bad satire that lacked in any irony at all. Then suddenly the Film Actors Guild(usually referred to as F.A.G.) takes the lead on criticizing Team America, Michael Moore suicide bombs Mount Rushmore, and the F.A.G. become pawns of Kim Jong Il's plan to become a master terrorist and make everywhere into the third world. At the very end Kim turns into a cockroach and flies off into space, perfectly summing up the absolute insanity of this film. Throughout the movie, all I could think was that this seemed like an miserable failure of an attempt to copy South Park, and then they actually poached a South Park song. The movie is an equal opportunity mocker, and fails equally miserably each time, alternating between painfully unfunny and downright uncomfortable. Finally the whole movie is theoretically summed up by some utterly disgusting analogy about various private parts, culminating in the "it's good to be a dick" message. The marionettes were so awkward it was distracting, the dialogue was so awful that even if it was deliberate satire, it was completely pitiful, and the entire plot made less than no sense. I have absolutely no idea what this movie was trying to accomplish, but if it was trying to make me laugh, it failed miserably. 2 out of 10 would not watch again