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If you are a feiry political partisan of any persuasion, "Team America: World Police" is going to offend you. It doesn't matter which way you lean. From the advertisements that accompanied the movie, one would expect "Team America" to be a lambasting of American Imperialism. And it is. But the film also pokes fun at those who rail against Bush's foreign policy. The film is an equal opportunity lampooner.

"Team America" is a brilliant little comedy from the creators of "South Park", using marionation to depicit the story of stage actor Gary Johnston, who is recruited by a man named Spottswoode to join a special military force called Team America since one of their key members was killed by terrorists. Spottswoode figures that Gary's expertly honed acting talents will allow Team America to infiltrate the evildoers. Hijinks ensue.

People made to look the fool in "Team America" include: Kim Il Jong, Alec Baldwin, Michael Moore, Matt Damon, the Bush Administration, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Susan Saradon, Helen Hunt, Hans Blix, Al Qaeda and the Screen Actors Guild, roughly in that order of shame.

The film is hilarious in scene after scene. Not only does it mock the state of world politics, but it also makes fun of the entire action movie genre in its storytelling style. Watch for scenes that are almost identical to "Superman 2" (the bar - vomitting scene) and the "Rocky" films (the "montage"). The only real weak point, for me anyway, came during an extended, "graphic" love scene between Gary and one of his female Team America cohorts. Some people might find that funny though. I just thought it was kind of stupid. But it is the exception, because otherwise "Team America" cruises along producing laugh after laugh.

"Team America" is described as a political comedy. It is in the sense that it deals with subjects of a political nature. However, "Team America" doesn't really carry a message — unless you want to count the contents of Gary's passionate speech at the end. I wouldn't. "Team America" keeps it light by randomly attacking everyone, turning on a dime from mocking one end of the political spectrum to the next without a care for putting together a coherent political message. And it's much better that way.

4.5/5 Stars.