Dumb & Dumber

This review is great although I don't know if it's any good or not. I haven't seen the movie but the reviewer here doesn't seem to know that the movie here, although about American, is not American but made by to Canadians-duh! So most of his coments mean nothing:



1. New Movie Reviews: Moral Guidance From Class Clowns
By A. O. SCOTT
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With an election drawing near, flush with a sense of civic
duty, I went to a screening of "Team America: World Police,"
the naughty new puppet action-musical from the resourceful
and confrontational minds of Trey Parker and Matt Stone. I
wanted a marionette version of what I get from "South Park":
a wholesale demolition of everything pious, hypocritical and
dumb in American culture and society, along with a few songs
to hum on the way home and a few new ways to appreciate the
inexhaustible comic possibilities of flatulence and
excrement.

Maybe I expected too much. It's a big country, after all,
busy inventing new forms of idiocy every day, and there's
only so much a 98-minute movie can cover, especially if the
filmmakers have to figure out how to make big-headed, loose-
bodied puppets walk, shoot, fight and simulate sex.

So perhaps Mr. Parker and Mr. Stone had to be selective in
their choice of targets. They expend most of their spoofy
energy sending up action-movie conventions and over-the-top
patriotic bluster, reserving their real satiric venom for
self-righteous Hollywood liberals. Considering that it's all
done with puppets, "Team America" is sometimes more
satisfying as a straight-ahead blow 'em up than as a satire.

Review:
http://movies2.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/movies/15TEAM.html?8mu

Movie Details:
http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=309182&8mu
there you go that's the New York Times for you. A very good shallow, meaningless interpretation on what's happening in the world.