Review by Marty Mapes

As you'd expect from the creators of South Park, Team America is shocking, funny, and socio-politically astute. It's an edgy and sharp-witted parody -- of the redneck right, the reactionary left, and especially of the all-American action movie genre.

Four mercenaries make up Team America, and they fight terror wherever it rears its ugly head. Meanwhile, the head of worldwide terror, Kim Jong Il, is preparing a "peace" conference to be attended by all the world's leaders, lured to North Korea by the gullible Alec Baldwin and his Film Actors Guild. Only Team America can stop Kim Jong Il and his diabolical plan.

By now you know that Team America is a puppet movie. All the characters are marionettes. Coming from Parker and Stone, who decided to make cartoons using paper cutouts because they admitted they couldn't draw, marionettes seem like a logical leap to "live action" filmmaking.

And of course with Parker and Stone behind the strings, these puppets earn their R rating. Language, "nudity," graphic "sex," gore, and one horrific spasm of vomiting make this a movie parents will not want to have to explain to their kids.

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