[Chi-townChief]

"Let me mention here that I thought Parker and Stone's previous feature, "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" (1999), was a hoot, and this year's "South Park" parody of "The Passion of the Christ" had me in stitches. So I must be some hypocritical lefty to object when Parker and Stone aim their daggers at liberal celebrities and their causes."

BINGO!!! Caro nails it and then ignores his own comment. The way these so-called reporters are flipping over this puppet movie is funny as hell. It just may be worth going to see.

[Chi-townChief]

CHICAGOLAND PING

These guys are just going goofy over this "Team America" movie!!!

[Drew68]

South Park ping

[PreciousLiberty]

Michael Moore, outfitted as a suicide bomber, barges into U.S. intelligence headquarters and blows himself and the whole place up.

He says that like it's a bad thing... ;-)

[King Prout]

the only folks (who would wish to see a raunchy marionette comedy) who will get upset over this movie are those who are not humble enough to laugh at an exaggerated charicature of themselves.

Consquently: Holier-than-thou leftists will HATE this move.

I laughed myself silly watching it last night.

[satchmodog9]

I can't wait for Mondays Libune when the attacks will be in full force. I'm sure the idiot Zorn will have an article on it. I'm also surprised the Lack of Perspective pages in the Sunday Lib did not include a scathing review of the film by their oh so unbiased writing staff.

[DSBull]

Showing Michael Moore and the Hollywood liberals wanting to destroy America is a parody exactly how?

[TexasCajun]

I rented "The Day After Tomorrow", the polar ice caps melt in 8 days, floods, then freezes the northern half of American, forces Illegal American Aliens to invade Mexico for safety!

Saved ya the rental cost.

[dr_who_2]

Depends on whether you're talking about the "status quo" in Iraq or the "status quo" in the U.S., doesn't it?

[Rocko]

In Hollywood, Michael Moore is the status quo.

[JennysCool]

Hollywood progressives

Contradiction in terms.

[zook]

Team America is the feel good movie of the year. Every conservative who can handle mild obscenity should see it.

[the invisib1e hand]

haven't seen the movie..didn't know what it was about...(culturally challenged)...if it's what I think it is, it'll probably gross as well as The Passion.

People are funny-- we don't really care how truth is presented; we love it so much we'll take it either as satire, drama, or anything in between.

[fight_truth_decay]

Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of the popular TV series South Park, return to movie theaters with Team America: World Police, a movie that was created entirely with marionettes. The film originally garnered an NC-17 rating due to excessive puppet sex, and was trimmed to receive an R rating. That restrictive rating could hold down the grosses for the film, as many fans of South Park are under the age of 17 and may not be able to get into the theater. It's hard to compare Team America to any other film, since no other film is quite like it. Trey and Matt's South Park movie, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut was released the Wednesday before the 4th of July in 1999 and opened with $14.8M over the four-day holiday weekend, for a per screen average of $6,943. That film, which also had an R rating, opened in the summer in the middle of a lot of competition, and was based on a known commodity. Fans of South Park will certainly come out for Team America, but to what extent? Opening on 2,539 screens, Team America could rescue $18M over the weekend.
http://www.boxofficeguru.com/weekend.htm

[Boundless]

Film critics are all "outing" themselves over this movie.
Here are some on Usenet:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=rec.arts.movies.reviews

They can't even hide their outrage over their ox herd
being gored en masse.

"Hillarious"
"Not funny"

[Samwise]

So I must be some hypocritical lefty to object when Parker and Stone aim their daggers at liberal celebrities and their causes."

Uhmmm. No argument here.

[Savage Rider]

Someone needs to help Caro remove that stick he was sitting on as he watched the movie. So, do you think he is a D, a P or an A? I vote P, but that's just an inch and a half from being an A.

[Drew68]

I'm going to go check it out today with some navy buddies.

[BADROTOFINGER]

Liberals decrying the coarsening of the culture. Up is up again, it seems...JFK

[isthisnickcool]

KIM JOHN IL: "Hey Freepers! Hey America! Go see dis movie! It a great movie! Democrats get in movie free on erection day! It's true! Would I rie? And someone tell John Kerry he can come live with me after he rooses. I'm so ronrey!"

[Danno]

ha ha - so funny ...a big waaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh! to Chicago Tribune...you guys should be ashamed of yourself. If you love Moore so much strap on with him...