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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...France and Egypt, the team members inadvertently blow up the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Sphinx and several pyramids. They need a recruit to get inside the terrorist mind, and who better than Gary, a Broadway actor? While Gary infiltrates the insurgents, North Korea's kooky dictator, Kim Jong Il, is making worse mischief. He dupes Alec Baldwin and other leftish members of the Film Actors Guild (FAG, in case you didn't notice) into being co-hosts of a peace conference in Kim's palace. Their criminal naivet earns the thesps decapitation, immolation and death by giant felines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: When Puppets Get Political | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

...Trey Parker and Matt Stone production Team America: World Police is a delirious send-up of the international save-the-world action genre spoofing every movie from the Star Wars trilogy to Knightrider to The Matrix and unsympathetically mocks every public figure from Michael Moore to Kim Jong-Il to, curiously enough, Matt Damon. And they do it with puppets. Unlike most politically-motivated comedies these days, there’s no clear slant towards either the left or the right. Team America is a throwback to the kind of movie that casts the establishment as the good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 10/22/2004 | See Source »

This delirious send-up of the international save-the-world action genre spoofs every movie from the Star Wars trilogy to Knightrider to The Matrix and unsympathetically mocks every public figure from Michael Moore to Kim Jong-Il to, curiously enough, Matt Damon. And they do it with puppets...

Author: By Steven N. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Film Review | 10/15/2004 | See Source »

...long after the chaos, we meet the film’s main villain—a petulant Kim Jong-Il who sounds like Cartman and sings a song about being “ronery.” His character resembles that of Satan in the South Park feature film, in that his notorious evil nature is softened and made absurd by an overblown sensitive side...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘South Park’ Creators Expand to All of ‘America’ | 10/15/2004 | See Source »

...NORTH KOREA: "To have bilateral talks with North Korea ... will cause the six-party talks to evaporate. It means that China no longer is involved in convincing ... Kim Jong Il to get rid of his weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHO STRETCHES THE TRUTH? | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

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