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...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...
...came to mean good in African-American slang. And though hip is often cool and evasive, it can also be angry and hot. In the late 1940s and the '50s, anger came back into hip through the improvisational bebop style of jazz developed by saxophonist Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. In response to the domestication of jazz by the swing bands of the 1930s, Parker developed a defiantly anti-commercial style, one with solos so rapid-fire they were too fast to dance to--and almost too fast to listen to. Real hipsters have always disdained the mass market...
Many oenophiles rely on the ratings and recommendations of wine guru Robert Parker when selecting the perfect bottle. But leafing through a stack of Parker's Wine Advocate newsletters isn't an attractive option when you're picking wine at a restaurant or browsing the aisles of a wine shop. A new solution: thanks to Parker in Your Palm ($30-$50), wine lovers can download ratings and tasting notes for more than 55,000 wines from eRobertParker.com and store them in a Palm personal digital assistant. No need to judge a wine by its label anymore. Cheers! --By Lisa McLaughlin
...pretty close to the same joke as in Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, but it’s nevertheless effective. As Stone puts it, “it feels like one of our movies” and audiences should respond. Indeed, as South Park continues to get smarter and quicker, Parker and Stone—a couple of former waterheads from the University of Colorado—have accidentally become the elder wisemen of our time. Despite the TV show’s superficially immature bag of jokes, the American public—or at least the young, loud left?...
...point is that Parker and Stone have no political agenda to propagandize, and as a result, they avoid didacticism. As it stands, Team America is the only political film of 2004 whose strings are pulling their own weight...