Curt 1 Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 Anyone in the states (or anywhere, if its out anywhere else) seen Team America? Looks like a comedy Thunderbirds-style thing. Supposed to be good, looks fun what I saw. http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/15/review.team.america.ap/index.html Link to post Share on other sites
amandanism 0 Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 its meant to be hilarious. Link to post Share on other sites
oblivion 5 Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/ent_movies/43041.php From the makers of South Park. Hadnt heard about this until now, cheers! Link to post Share on other sites
green 0 Posted October 19, 2004 Share Posted October 19, 2004 Saw it when I was back in the US just now. Very funny it is, definitely one to watch. Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted October 19, 2004 Share Posted October 19, 2004 I am in NY at present and noticed quite a few adverts for a puppet show called something like "Team America, International Cops". The premise is that a bunch of American puppets chase terrorists around the world. My hotel (the Hilton) in directly across the road from 'ground zero'. My hotel window looks down into the pit. I can see everything in and around it and the hole/void is just as dramatic as the previous buildings were. As I sit in my room watching tv, it is an odd feeling that I get when I see adverts for American puppet characters who are "....International Cops" and then directly outside my window I see the reality of WTC Ground Zero. The blackness of the dichotomy had me scratching my head, to say the least. Link to post Share on other sites
cal 6 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Thats the one DB - its supposed to be getting rave reviews all round Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 They seem to be pushing a clip of a Kim Jong Il puppet singing a "I'm Ronely" song, but it isn't funny. On the news, they went out off their way to explain that the real Kim likes Hollywood musicals, but that didn't make it funny. As for the l/r thing, like the Japanese Navy with "Seaman Ship", you generally find that real-life mistaken English is 1000 times funnier than attempted satire upon it. The other clip they had on was like Thunderbirds meets Police Squad. Police Squad-type humour has been done to death, so that wasn't especially funny either. The film might be very good, but the clips I saw were not inspiring. Link to post Share on other sites
blinkin'ek 0 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 I saw that "I'm so Ronely" on CNN. Very unfunny. Link to post Share on other sites
veronica 2 Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 They were having a good old laugh about it where I saw that. I agree, it wasn't in the least bit funny. Perhaps I'm not being patriotic. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted October 23, 2004 Share Posted October 23, 2004 I saw some too and didn't laugh. Perhaps it is fine-tuned to US humor? (Not a stab) Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 I saw it last night, not too impressed. I prefer thunderbirds. Link to post Share on other sites
TheOrange 0 Posted November 30, 2004 Share Posted November 30, 2004 I saw this over the weekend and I'm in the not impressed camp. I thought it was quite unfunny actually. Link to post Share on other sites
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