Team America: World Police
From the creators of South Park, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, comes a truly vile and offending puppet film with its target set at terrorists and Kim Jong-Il. Our group of heroes loses a man while saving Paris from a WMD, so for their next mission, Team America's leader, Spottswoode, recruits Gary, a Broadway actor, specifically for his acting skills to infiltrate a terrorist base. While the mission is a success, Gary feels guilty about the resulting retaliation and quits, leaving the door open for Kim Jong-Il to proceed with his plans for world chaos, using the Film Actors Guild (read the acronym) led by Alec Baldwin as his own puppet. In the end, it's up to Gary to save his friends and the world.

This film had a lot going for it. From the very outset, its targets were numerous and they were hit dead on, often to a very funny effect, from Team America's reckless disregard of famous landmarks to the creative wordplay. But somewhere along the way, probably after the graphic sex scene with two puppets, Stone and Parker lose their steam and the movie slows down considerably. It becomes increasingly obvious that the only laughs that linger are based on jokes that are derivatives of the ones we just saw a half hour earlier. So while you'll be delighted by the inspired songs and enjoy that no target goes ignored, by the end, you're just tired from it all. 2 stars