Why It Ranks
Team America attacked every sacred cow simultaneously and made $50 million doing it. The puppet medium allowed jokes no live-action film could attempt. 'America, F*** Yeah' is the most subversive anthem ever written. Parker and Stone proved that South Park's fearlessness could translate to cinema.
The Film
Team America: World Police is the most offensive comedy of the 2000s — a puppet action movie that eviscerates American foreign policy, Hollywood activism, and the war on terror with equal contempt. Trey Parker and Matt Stone used marionettes to do things that live-action actors never could, including a graphic sex scene between puppets that nearly earned the film an NC-17 rating. The 'America, F*** Yeah' anthem is simultaneously a patriotic banger and a savage parody of jingoism.
Fun Facts
The puppet sex scene was submitted to the MPAA nine times before receiving an R rating — each cut removed increasingly absurd acts.
The marionette strings are intentionally visible throughout the film — Parker and Stone wanted to emphasize the artificiality.
Kim Jong-il's voice was performed entirely by Trey Parker, who sang 'I'm So Ronery' in a single take.
The film destroyed so many puppets during production that the crew built over 200 hero puppets.
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