TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE

Scifind.co.uk rating - 4 - out of 5.

Reviewed By: Paul Mount

Starring: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Kristen Miller, Daran Norris, Phil Hendrie, Maurice LaMarche,

I’m not a fan of musicals as such but I know what I like. I loved - to the point of splitting at the sides - SOUTH PARK - THE MOVIE a few years back. I loved it so much I bought the soundtrack album. Now the men behind the miracle of SOUTH PARK (the anti-SIMPSONS) are back with their latest creation. TEAM AMERICA:WORLD POLICE, the work of evil geniuses Trey Parker and Matt Stone, takes broad swipes at just about everything - American foreign policy, American jingoism, internationalism, the power and self-importance of Hollywood celebrities - with the help of some Gerry Anderson-style puppets. This is Parker and Stone’s ‘affectionate’ tribute to THUNDERBIRDS (which one of them recently described as ‘a f***ing boring show’ - burn him!!) and it’s as coarse, vulgar and politically-incorrect as you might expect. Fortunately, it’s also a hoot-and-a-half s