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1 Star "What are you rebelling against, Johnny?" "Whaddya got?" ) --Marlon Brando in "The Wild One" If this dialogue is not inscribed over the doors of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, it should be. Their "Team America: World Police" is an equal opportunity offender, and waves of unease will flow over first one segment of their audience, and then another. Like a cocky teenager who's had a couple of drinks before the party, they don't have a plan for who they want to offend, only an intention to be as offensive as possible. Their strategy extends even to their...

Melinda Sue Gordon/Paramount "Team American" was no walk in South Park, even though the actors couldn't talk. The puppet cast on the Paris set. LOS ANGELES TREY PARKER and Matt Stone have had it up to here: with self-righteous movie stars, stupid political leaders, that idiot Michael Moore — and most of all, with the new movie they are making that mercilessly lampoons all of the above. Last month in the vast hangar space where they were shooting the movie, "Team America: World Police," they spent the whole day complaining about how hard it had been to make: stressful,...

OK, this movie (see this post) looks like it is going to be a total scream once this hits theaters in Oct. The boys who gave us Southpark are going after just about everybody and giving us their own special view on the War on Terror. It just may have more of an effect on the election that M. Moore's twisted film ever could dream of.