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One small voice in the proud tradition of FreeBlogging* Saturday, October 23, 2004 posted by gbarto at 10:40 PM:Team AmericaI've just come from the foulest, trashiest, most vulgar and least culturally sensitive movie I've ever seen. It was funny too. One hates to give away the story line, so suffice to say that what you've heard is true: It is puppets. You can see the wires. Rather than amazing feats of puppetry, what we see is not unlike a ten-year old attempting to manipulate marionnettes for the first time. The film opens with a mise-en-abyme - a (puppet) puppeteer making his puppet dance around in front of a picture of Paris. The scene opens... to puppets walking around Paris. And then the political incorrectness starts. And keeps going... and going... and going... By the time they're done, not only have they dissected Hollywood's most obnoxious anti-war pieties - they've dissected a fair measure of Hollywood too! Team America is plainly satire and plainly has a nasty thing or two to say about how the War on Terror has gone. But the underlying message is plain: The world's in trouble if America's obnoxious, self-righteous, blustering, bumbling and arrogant swagger isn't there to keep it on a halfway even keel. Absolutely positively not in a million years for anyone under the age of seventeen or of delicate sensibilities. But for foul-mouthed, pornographic puppeteering and a pro-American song you'll never hear at the Republican convention, this can't be beat. 
French Elections, 1st round
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