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Anomalisa (2015)
Directed by Duke Johnson
influenced by Team America: World Police (2004)
Plot Visuals
Heck, it contains the first puppet sex scene since “Team America: World Police.”
And not that comic, jangly, gratuitous puppet sex from "Team America: World Police."
That is, not unless you want to expose them to some heavy, grown-up ideas, including a memorable and moving portrait of depression and isolation, as well as one of the more graphic scenes of puppet sex you're likely to have seen this side of "Team America: World Police."
In 2004, in what was no doubt a first, the Motion Picture Association of America awarded an R rating to the "South Park" team's infamous "Team America: World Police" for "graphic crude and sexual humor, violent images and strong language — all involving puppets."
The overall effect is something like “The Polar Express” meets “Team America: World Police.”
There's a sex scene here that is nothing like the puppet sex scene in "Team America: World Police," for the record.
Sausage Party (2016)
Directed by Greg Tiernan
influenced by Team America: World Police (2004), South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
Themes Visuals
The obvious bar that the filmmakers reach for is “South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut,” still the high-water mark in adult-geared animation, which blended political commentary with wall-to-wall humor.
But as with 1999’s deceptively deep South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut and, more recently, The Lego Movie, the script works hard to invest its scenario with an existential and political dimension, crudely but effectively expressed.
At its best, the movie offers in-your-face raunch in the spirit of the superior “Team America: World Police” and “South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.”
Like "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" (the best R-rated cartoon ever made, by the way), "Sausage Party" is notable for being more thoughtful than you'd expect and filthier than you ever imagined possible.
This is a movie so ugly it makes “South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut” look like one of Studio Ghibli’s exquisitely drawn masterpieces by comparison.
For those too young to remember the output of Ralph Bakshi, the definitive sequence involving animated intercourse would inarguably be the puppet-sex segment in 2004's Team America: World Police.
No one could accuse Parker and Stone's lyrics of predictability: "I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark in Pearl Harbor/I need you more than Ben Affleck needs acting lessons."
They nail the cliches and make you realize things like Michael Bay’s “Pearl Harbor” really did suck.
But what of these liberal actors, like outspoken Kerry supporter Ben Affleck, who star in movies like Pearl Harbor?
Or better still there’s a background song that is in fact a scathing musical movie review of Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor, substituted for a song about relationships.
Then, to hammer home their point, they even include a brazenly nasty, utterly hilarious third-act song titled “Pearl Harbor Sucked” (sample lyric: “All I’m trying to say is Pearl Harbor sucked, and I miss you.”).
Some viewers may be reminded of the Trey Parker/Matt Stone 2004 puppet movie, Team America: World Police.
Here, the film comes dangerously close to becoming "Orgazmo," Trey Parker's similarly-themed fish-out-of-water-but-in-porn comedy.
The Dictator (2012)
Directed by Larry Charles
influenced by Team America: World Police (2004)
Themes
While the level of satire of The Dictator recalls Team America: World Police (Trey Parker, 2004) to the degree that no political viewpoint or belief is safe from being derided, The Dictator feels more strategic.
White House Down (2013)
Directed by Roland Emmerich
influenced by Team America: World Police (2004)
Plot
If Trey Parker and Matt Stone were interested in making a sequel to their brilliant spoof Team America: World Police, they could easily borrow the plot of Roland Emmerich’s preposterous new action extravaganza White House Down.
Swearnet: The Movie (2014)
Directed by Warren P. Sonoda
influenced by Orgazmo (1998), Team America: World Police (2004)
Themes
The key difference between that duo and the Trailer Park Boys, however, is that the majority of Parker and Stone's self-generated efforts—the good (Book of Mormon, the “South Park” movie), the bad (Orgazmo) and the uneven ( Team America: World Police )—at least use their brash, provocative mode of comedy to speak to one unifying Big Idea.
The key difference between that duo and the Trailer Park Boys, however, is that the majority of Parker and Stone's self-generated efforts—the good (Book of Mormon, the “South Park” movie), the bad (Orgazmo) and the uneven ( Team America: World Police )—at least use their brash, provocative mode of comedy to speak to one unifying Big Idea.
The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Directed by David Silverman
influenced by South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
Any hope the writers will use the opportunity to stretch beyond the constraints of prime-time television for some raunchy humor in the vein of "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" (1999) shrinks thinner than the hair on Homer's head.
In "Bigger, Longer & Uncut," the kids of South Park are addicted to an R-rated animated feature film that features much nasty language and enough bean music to make the boys of "Blazing Saddles" blush.
So, 6 Underground essentially has the plot of Team America: World Police, in which the functions of the United States military, the CIA, and all other projections of American power abroad are instead performed by this small team.
(Somewhere Trey Parker and Matt Stone are grinning that they got to the title “Orgazmo” first.)
Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
Directed by Antoine Fuqua
influenced by Team America: World Police (2004)
Dialogue Themes Plot
However, when Olympus Has Fallen truly swan dives into the farcical is when it starts – sincerely – using dialogue and characterisations that feel like they’re lifted from Team America: World Police.
It's basically two hours of "America, Fuck Yeah!" — the Team America: World Police anthem that has unofficially been the motto of everything from the 2012 Summer Olympics to the Iraq War.
A dumber, louder, live action version of Team America: World Police in which North Korean terrorists (led by martial artist Rick Yune) shoot up the White House and take President Aaron Eckhart hostage, Olympus Has Fallen may, from a distance, seem eerily prescient.
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Directed by Ben Stiller
influenced by Team America: World Police (2004)
Themes
He's back in Tropic Thunder , the most daringly un-PC, in-your-face film that Hollywood has produced since Team America: World Police and a solid third hit in the trifecta of R-rated comedies of late summer 2008, which started with the pretty good Step Brothers , moved on to the great Pineapple Express , and ends somewhere in between with Tropic Thunder .
The result combines elements of "There's Something About Mary ...," "The Player" and "Team America: World Police," and yet almost nothing in "Tropic Thunder" is predictable or cliched.
If the 2004 marionette action parody “ Team America: World Police ” were remade with actual human beings and not a trace of irony, it could not be more entertainingly stupid than “Infinite,” the new Mark Wahlberg sci-fi thriller.
You sense that Lord and Miller want to make another piece of gonzo vulgarity, something ironically, riotously lewd like Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s all-marionette Team America: World Police.
Cinematographers Barry Peterson and Pablo Plaisted, much like the great Dick Pope did with Team America: World Police, build a world both beautiful and mad, utterly real while being completely invented.
MacFarlane has definitely made the best leap from animated television to movies since 1999’s South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut.
West Side Story (1961)
Directed by Jerome Robbins
influenced South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
Music
Where else can you find Saddam Hussein carrying on as a bossy lover to Satan in the fiery depths of hell, or obscene (and often clever) dance numbers based on "Les Miserables" and "West Side Story"?
Ranging from a global sing-along reprise of “Kyle’s Mother Is a Bitch” to Terrence & Philip’s “rap video” and a “West Side Story” parody, these rude ditties (penned by Parker) are fully orchestrated and lavishly “staged” to hilarious impact.
The King's Speech (2010)
Directed by Tom Hooper
influenced by South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
Themes
Nor has time blunted the satire: one needs only to have witnessed the dumbfounding treatment of the insistently charming The King's Speech , the gold standard of a movie to watch with your grandma, to hear Sheila Broflovski's words continue to echo: "Horrific, deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any naughty words."
Non-Stop (2014)
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
influenced by Team America: World Police (2004)
Music
Now if the theme song to " Team America: World Police " had just played over the end credits, then this might have been somewhat worthwhile.