History Film / TeamAmericaWorldPolice

** Sean Penn was infamously so angry with his portrayal in the movie that he wrote an "angry letter" to Stone and Parker over it, signing it with ''"All the best, and a sincere fuck you"''.

* CelebrityCasualty: [[spoiler:Creator/AlecBaldwin gets shot by Kim Jong Il, Creator/SamuelLJackson gets decapitated, Creator/MichaelMoore blows himself up, Creator/MattDamon's neck is snapped, Creator/SusanSarandon falls to her death, Creator/TimRobbins is burnt to death, Creator/GeorgeClooney is blown up by a grenade, etc. Kim Jong Il, who is the BigBad, dies at the end of the movie, but [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnates]] as a cockroach.]]

* AntiHero: Team America are {{Unscrupulous Hero}}es, causing large amounts of property damage on their missions and using lethal force on everyone in their way. Gary even admits that "pussies" [[WhatTheHellHero need someone to call them out]] whenever they go too far.

* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: Inverted. The original cut received an NC-17 rating but a scene depicting graphic puppet sex was removed to ensure an R.

''Team America: World Police'' is a 2004 American satirical action comedy film produced and written by Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone, the guys who made ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', and directed by Parker, who used ([[StylisticSuck deliberately cheap]]) marionettes by [[Creator/ChiodoBrosProductions the Chiodo Brothers]] to lampoon U.S. foreign policy and the UsefulNotes/WarOnTerror, the action films of Creator/MichaelBay, liberal Hollywood actors, and everyone else for that matter.

As aforementioned, the film is notable for using [[UsefulNotes/{{Supermarionation}} marionettes and miniatures for its visuals]], largely in the style of ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'' The reduced scale allowed different shots and large scenes to be produced cheaply; its cartoonish qualities also let the film turn up the sex and violence because, hey, they're puppets!

* {{Expy}}: Michael Moore's personality is nearly identical to South Park's portrayal of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/SouthParkS7E13ButtOut Rob Reiner]], right down to both eating fast food constantly.

* MegaNeko: Kim Jong-Il's panthers are enormous compared to the puppet characters (they're played by [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments actual domestic house cats]]).

* SpiritualSuccessor: To the show that inspired it: ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}''. Made funnier by the fact that a live-action ''Thunderbirds'' movie came out the same year.
** Creator/GerryAnderson liked this movie (except for the profanity in the dialogue) and said that it is FAR closer in spirit to ''Thunderbirds'' than the live action movie was.
** Team America is also reminiscent to another show that features marionettes, known as ''Super Adventure Team'', which also features raunchy adult humor, and even one of the [[Creator/DaranNorris voice actors]], interestingly enough.

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''Team America: World Police'' is a 2004 American satirical action comedy film produced and written by Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone, the guys who made ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', and directed by Parker, who used ([[StylisticSuck deliberately cheap]]) marionettes by [[Creator/ChiodoBrosProductions the Chiodo Brothers]] to lampoon U.S. foreign policy and the war on terror, the action films of Creator/MichaelBay, liberal Hollywood actors, and everyone else for that matter.

Notable for using ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}''-style [[UsefulNotes/{{Supermarionation}} marionettes and miniatures for visuals]]. The reduced scale allowed different shots and large scenes on the cheap. Its cartoonish qualities also let it turn up the sex and violence because, hey, they're puppets!

The script for this film was actually Plan B from Trey Parker and Matt Stone in making a marionette movie - there were apparently a bunch of other ideas they tried (see the Trivia tab), and one of them was to remake either ''Film/Armageddon1998'' or ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'' with puppets. The idea was that the script of either movie was silly enough, and the movie would only improve if it was being filmed with UsefulNotes/{{Supermarionation}}.

''Team America: World Police'' is a 2004 American satirical action comedy film produced and written by Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone, the guys who made ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', and directed by Parker, who used (cheap) marionettes to lampoon U.S. foreign policy and the war on terror, the action films of Creator/MichaelBay, liberal Hollywood actors, and everyone else for that matter.

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* AntiHero: Team America are {{Unscrupulous Hero}}es, causing large amounts of property damage on their missions and using lethal force on everyone in their way. Gary even admits that "pussies" [[WhatTheHellHero need to call them out]] whenever they go too far.

* AmericaSavesTheDay: Yeah!