Self-proclaimed heroes of the free world, they take serious charge, as civilians quiver, eyes wide (the puppets’ faces are separately controlled and curiously emotive). The world-baiting mayhem begins in scene one, when Team America arrives in “Paris, France, 365 miles east of America.” Following the appearance of several obvious Terrorists - men with beards, turbans, and a “Middle Eastern” soundtrack, carrying a briefcase-bomb and giving the evil eye to the sailor suit kid - the good guys speed into frame in a red-white-and-blue jet plane and chopper, brazenly costumed in matching red-white-and-blue jumpsuits. The film parodies Jerry Bruckheimer movies, which Dultz says, called for a framework of “gritty reality, but within that framework, it was open to a lot of theatricality.” What this comes down to - aside from the literal stage where marionettes in a Rent-like production sing about “AIDS, AIDS, AIDS” - is “that every place in the world was the way America sees the world… the dumbed down version” of locations like Cairo or Paris or Panama, in this movie, all cities that Team America, World Police, attack with gusto. ![]() They all plainly love the size of this outrageous project, but they also understand and show off how silly that love is. Without question, this will be the biggest puppet movie ever made.” Setting up “Building the World,” one of several, brief making-of documentaries for the DVD, Team America: World Police: Special Collector’s Edition, Dultz appears as enthusiastic and sarcastic as his director-boys, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. “The scope of this movie is really, really huge,” says production designer Jim Dultz, “because we’re theoretically all over the world in huge, huge environments. Matt Damon! - Matt Damon, Team America: World Police Trey Parker, “ Team America: An Introduction” ![]() Now we can have all the celebrities made into puppets, and we can kill them.
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