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Team America: World PoliceTeam America: World Police, the new action-adventure puppet satire by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, tackles the issue of America's role in the war on terror, albeit in ways U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft probably never imagined possible.
Parker and Stone were camped out at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles last weekend, welcoming their film into the world, while doing the necessary spin control over the latest eruption of controversy surrounding the film. This time it was a letter Sean Penn sent to newspapers editors around America, criticizing the filmmakers.
Penn is a character in Team America, one of a gaggle of self-important celebrities (is there any other kind?) who emerge as the film's bad guys. These unwitting agitprops team up with North Korea's Elvis-loving, opera-composing, nuclear-warhead-wi elding dictator Kim Jong Il to resist Team America's best efforts to save Earth from terrorists brandishing weapons of mass destruction contained in smart-looking suitcases.
At a recent press conference in Toronto last month, Dustin Hoffman observed that director David O. Russell actually liked actors, which was different enough from the other directors he had worked with that he thought to mention it. Team America may be the ultimate act of director's revenge against obsessive, perfectioni
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