Tim Blair

Can't tell you how much I loved that movie. I actually thought AO Scott gave a decent review of it though.

I don't want to give anything away for those who haven't seen it... but it's an anti-hollywood liberals wet dream.

I see fear and loathing oozing out of that fat stinky liars face.God rot your weasel face moore.

Could he be founding father of overweight cases of disgrace.............there must be others .....PHATTY for example

America - Fuck Yeah!

Amazing how much some people don't mind a "lack of balance" when it comes from hot dog-wielding schmucks like Moore.

No kidding, Emily. Funny that the critics who revelled in Fahrenheit 9/11's one-sided nature are now crying foul because one movie has come out of Hollywood that doesn't take a jab at Bush.

Waaa! Waaa! Cry me a river!

I do recall a comment made by Matt Stone (the more liberal of the two South Park guys), something along the lines of "I hate conservatives, but I REALLY fucking hate liberals"

But folks, F9/11 reveals "essential truths" about the Bush administration, while Team America stoops to (gasp!) making fun of liberals! If you can't see why the former is an integral part of society while the latter should be banned and burned, you're really beyond hope. Clueless people like you might even vote for Bushitler.

/sarcasm

My lefty friends are in complete denial about Team America. They are stuck on a "all sides were lampooned equally" mantra. It's both amusing and sad.

Freedom isn't free
It costs folks like you and me
And if we don't all chip in
We'll never pay that bill
Freedom isn't free
No, there's a hefty fuckin' fee.
And if you don't throw in your buck 'o five
Who will?

Yeah all the liberals I talk to are stuck on "Don't you get it! Even the title is a bash on how Arrogant America is!"

America!

Fuck Yeah!

Why have none of the reviewers discussed the homoeroticism = turgid patriotism angle of the film?

I just gotta feelin your about to enlighten us

Moore's film is an outright attack on Bush, accusing that admin. of everything from cozying up to the Saudi's to legalising nun beating. Team America's angle would seem a tad more subtle, enough so that, as some have pointed out, liberal's can claim everyone got skewered while complaining about it's right wing slant.

Tell me again whose "nuanced" ?

I love Southpark. pro-American. pro-Bush.

But I thought this movie sucked. The worst thing I've ever seen from these two bright boys.

Surely, they could have done better.

the spherical socialist got his wake up call?

I wonder who Kos is referring to when he says "our side." Actually, I don't.

phark rthet phat phreak,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,nothin can be bad enuff fer thal lyin mound of sound

dig this phat boy theres a whole lotta poeple who hate yer crap and will nevver contribute 1 cent to yer rabid cause

"Don't you get it! Even the title is a bash on how Arrogant America is!"

A comment that could only come from somebody who thinks that America being the world policeman is a bad thing. No wonder liberals don't get that the joke's on them in Team America. I'd say their humourless reaction helps prove the point of the movie.

I think the reason some liberals are claiming the movie lambasts both sides equally is that they have trouble with the concepts of not taking yourself seriously, or admitting your flaws. Therefore they can't tell the difference between an outright attack and good-natured mockery.

I even do a straw poll wit my dog .......he go booosh........booosh boooshhhh

Parker and Stone are not "pro Bush" as so many claim. This should have been made clear by last Wednesday's new South Park episode, which was about an election between a douche bag and a turd sandwich (featuring a hilarious video from P-Diddy regarding "vote or die"). They're primarily libertarians, although it does seem that liberals get hit hardest in their movies and TV shows (the religious right gets hit hard, too).

My wife and I saw the movie last week and really enjoyed it.

all they smart rockers and film makers dont get it do they

who knows who that kerry about to kanoodle up to knext?

vive Chirac maybe?

shitty schroeder possibly

kissingly cute khadaffy perhapse?

kuddly KOFI NO DOUBT

I wouldn't call this a pro-Bush movie. It lets America have it by portraying us as being Uber Patriots and blowing up half the free world to try and save it. However... in the end it's clear we do the job along with our friends because nobody else can. We do it out of a sincere sense of trying to do the right thing.

It clearly deliniates who the REAL bad guys are and why the idiotic Left are a bunch of douches for siding with anyone but America and it's allies.

The Left gets obliterated in this movie, but there is certainly some satire thrown over to the right as well.

cugel, please put down the bottle now.

It rocked. The puppet sex had me in tears.

As far as who gets skewered, the message of the movie, explicitly stated, is, "We HAVE to be dicks, because all you pussies let the assholes shit all over everything."

As far as them blowing up the world to save it - well, Paris was about to get suitcase-nuked. The Eiffel Tower, the Louvre and the Arc de (chortle!) Triomphe would have been destroyed anyway, along with everything else. Another lesson, there - war is messy. I don't hear leftists carping about Monte Cassino.

"Penn deserves to be mauled by housecats."

Pah. Too good for him. Skeletonized by dust mites is more like it.

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"As far as them blowing up the world to save it - well, Paris was about to get suitcase-nuked."

Hehe how great was it when one terrorist was trying to escape:

"There he is! He's heading into the Louvre!"
"I got it...!" (as she launches a stinger missile right through the front doors of the Louvre)

So great. I still laugh at the look of confusion/fear/shock they managed to get on the French puppets faces. Like... what the FUCK just happened???

Heavily armed Americans travelling the world kicking ass and taking names!

"What was his name?"

"Uh..."

"Ok, look - next time, get his name before you waste him, huh?"

For balls and message, I give the movie a A plus plus plus... plus. For entertainment value, I give it a not entirely enthusiastic B.

I was actually put off by the gruesome mutilations of movie star puppets because I thought it took away from the better lines of the movie, like Mr. Ger-whatshername-alfo saying "As actors, it's our job to read the papers, and then go on television and repeat what we just read like it was our own opinion!" or Tim Robbins explaining to us how corporations make money. And Sean Penn was in Iraq.

Then again, even when they hammer how bad they hate movie stars THAT hard, people are still too dim to realize that the movie is taking a side, so I guess they didn't do enough. Team America's clueless patriotism is parodied, but in a sympathetic way. Kim Jong Il's Cartman incarnation was fantastic.

The songs were fuckin' brilliant. And painful. Everyone has AIDS!

Mr should have been Ms. Someday I'll conquer typos. But not today. It my addiction and you all should respect it!

Parker and Stone aren't pro-Bush, they're anti-pussy. I laughed as hard at the Giant Douche vs. Turd Sandwich episode as I did at Team America, since I'm basically on the Republican team because I merely dislike a lot of their platform instead of outright hating almost everything about it the way I do with the current incarnation of the Democratic party.

Matt Damun!

The puppeteers stuffed him with ham before setting him off

Sortelli, watch it, or you'll be channeling Margo. Surgery might be required.

Andrea -- sorry. I never had computing 101, so I'm doomed to learn this stuff under someone's disciplinary hand.

Love the comments, so restful.
Keep it coming y'all.

Just finished watching C411 and it does set alot of things straight but I refused to watch F911 so I didn't learn anything I didn't already agree with.

I had to buy the thing to balance out my son who recently graduated from college. The guy brings F911 into the house and boasts its the best movie of all time. For the sake of my wife who hates politicians and politics I bought C411 in the hopes it would balance it out. Geesh, what Moms will do for their first borns....it takes Dad to unravel...I hope:) Needless to say my son and I haven't spoken more than a few words in months :(

Bush 2004!!!!!!

Mike: always glad to help! [smack!]

You chould sharge for that, Andra.

*waves his poor spelling excuses defiantly at Jeff* MY FINGERS ARE COLD. God, it;s like... 75 degress in Arizona right now. I'm freezing

For people who haven't seen the movies, the main premise is that people (and countries) are either "dicks", "pussies", or "assholes".

The best part of the movie is at the end when they explain the relationships between dicks, pussies, and assholes. It's great because it is (1) funny as hell, and (2) pretty much frickin' true.

75 degrees, huh? Time to put on the thermal underwear and bunny slippers, Sortelli!

it should come at no surprise that michael moore, the stupid fat man, is sending camera crews to a bunch of polling stations across the country. is that even allowed, to film at a polling booth? i bet they will make an exception for him.

nicki, I don't think they can film inside the polling station. But they can do exit interviews. That's been standard for years.

I was sad that Moore didn't get more lambasting. And I was sad France got off scott free.

Yes, the movie parodied patriotism - but it mostly tore into moronic liberal actors. It was truly glorious when Team America massacred the Hollywood elite.

There were mostly teenagers in my theatre who thought it was a hoot. There were some baby boomers who were visibly disturbed. The people of my city are so pathetically politically correct they were apalled by Stone making light of serious issues. Grow up liberals! Grab a sense of humour - after all you have some practive at humour taking Michael Moore seriously