Team America: World Police is a 2004 comedy film, written by Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Pam Brady and directed by Parker, all of whom are also known for the popular animated series South Park. The film is a parody of big-budget action films and their associated clichés and stereotypes, Hollywood's belief that "peace conferences" can change the brutality of tyrants, and particular humorous mocking of socialist mantras against American politics. ...
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Team America: World Police is a 2004 comedy film, written by Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Pam Brady and directed by Parker, all of whom are also known for the popular animated series South Park. The film is a parody of big-budget action films and their associated clichés and stereotypes, Hollywood's belief that "peace conferences" can change the brutality of tyrants, and particular humorous mocking of socialist mantras against American politics. The title of the film itself is a parroting of Hollywood's insistence that the U.S. frequently and unilaterally tries to "police the world".
The film, which features a cast composed of marionettes (except for two live cats, two nurse sharks, a cockroach, and an adult male dressed as a giant statue of Kim Jong-il), focuses on a fictional team of political paramilitary policemen known as "Team America: World Police," who attempt to save the world from a violent terrorist plot led by Kim Jong-il. The film was primarily inspired by Thunderbirds, a...
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