Team America: World Police
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: October 15, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
Positive:
25
Mixed:
11
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Film ThreatRory L. Aronsky
Laugh hard, laugh long, but just laugh at true greatness. Parker and Stone have done it again, multiplied millions of times. Read full review
100
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Wickedly funny and devilishly subversive. It is satire at its most fearless. Read full review
100
New York PostMegan Lehmann
Who's going to love it? Anyone with a sense of humor: Team America: World Police is hands-down the funniest movie of the year. Read full review
90
Dallas ObserverLuke Y. Thompson
Bottom line: It's hilarious, vicious, offensive, thoroughly profane and a joy to watch, just like you'd expect. Be sure to sit through the end credits for a bonus song from Kim Jong-il to Alec Baldwin. Read full review
88
Rolling StonePeter Travers
A ruthlessly clever musical, a punchy political parody and the hottest look ever at naked puppets -- the first film, porn included, in which a woody is actually made of wood. Read full review
88
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
It turns out that puppets can tell us more about who we are as a nation than the most meticulous documentary. In Team America: World Police, the potty-mouthed, crazily brilliant musical from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the result is hilarious, shocking and bound to offend nearly everyone. Read full review
80
The New York TimesDana Stevens
Clever comedians that they are, they have also rigged Team America with an ingenious anti-critic device, which I find myself unable to defuse. Much as it may pretend otherwise, the movie has an argument, but if you try to argue back, the joke's on you. Read full review
80
SlateDavid Edelstein
I laughed all the way through Team America: Scene by scene, it's uproarious. Read full review
80
Washington PostHank Stuever
This is all terrifically nasty and shocking stuff. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
I was amused more or less throughout by the ingeniously designed and executed stunt that is Team America. Read full review
75
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
The first hour of the movie struck me as being truly inspired, and I haven't laughed so hard all year. Read full review
75
USA TodayClaudia Puig
When Team America works, it falls squarely into the category of guilty pleasure. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
There is no room for subtlety. Aiming a rude, foul-mouthed political satire everywhere -- left, right and center -- Trey Parker and Matt Stone blow up a good deal of the world, not to mention the egos of many Hollywood personalities Read full review
70
VarietyBrian Lowry
Goes the extra mile to piss off everybody -- which includes gleefully destroying renowned Hollywood liberals, literally and figuratively. Read full review
70
TimeRichard Corliss
The real kick, however, is in the grandeur and detail of the production design, by Jim Dultz and David Rockwell. Read full review
70
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Years from now, Team America will better convey the political character of 2004 than a stack of Time magazines. Staying funny helps even more. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
You're guaranteed never to have seen anything like it; objectively speaking, it's a wonder. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneRobert K. Elder
Team America's strengths are in its musical numbers, especially Kim Jong Il's mournful "I'm So Ronery" (translation: "Lonely"), a heartfelt peek into the dictator's soul. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
This movie is more of a curiosity than a fully formed motion picture. Read full review
63
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Bits can be extremely funny. I howled at the ranting, mustard-splotched, wiener-waving Michael Moore. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
Egregiously vulgar satire on terrorism, global politics and Hollywood action movies gets an immeasurable boost from its wonderfully designed, old-school string puppets. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
The puppets are anatomically correct and politically incorrect. They provide 45 of the funniest minutes I've spent at the movies this year. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Stuck between point-blank ridicule and the obligations of a weary plot. Surprisingly, more than an hour of watching marionettes fight, curse, and fornicate turns out to be as dull as watching Michael Dudikoff do the same thing in one of his unremarkable soldier movies. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
Give it an A for concept -- a bizarre marionette version of a Jerry Bruckheimer-style action movie; B for its occasional moments of convulsively funny comedy; and D for the politics, for pandering to exactly the kind of reactionary sentiments it purports to satirize. Read full review
63
PremiereAaron Hillis
Wisely unbiased-but also unfocused, uneducated, and underachieving-which makes for an occasionally hilarious, frequently anemic parody that misses its opportunity to permanently document a scathing critique of current events. Read full review
60
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
Accomplished yet uneven feature. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
Yes, it's inventive, yes, it's out-there and audacious, but no, it's not always as funny as those good things would lead you to hope. Read full review
60
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
I know this sounds like great fun, and some of it is, but there's nowhere near enough good stuff to fill the 114-minute running time.
60
EmpireKim Newman
It makes for a patchy comedy that's stronger as a genre-mocker than a political satire. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
The net effect is a barrage of jokes that strain to be outrageous - just as the marionette gimmick strives to be different - but wind up canceling each other out. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The result is undeniably offensive and occasionally very funny, but the gags fall flat as often as they hit their mark. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
This is hysterically funny in parts, but most of the laughs are raunchy or scatological--always a sure bet when puppets are involved. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Juvenile yet compellingly smart humor. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
Proves that marionettes can be as foul-mouthed and profane as their cartoon counterparts, but not nearly as clever. Read full review
50
SalonCharles Taylor
Team America, for all its outrageousness, is the first work from Parker and Stone that I'd describe as a failure of nerve. Read full review
50
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Team America is at once grandiose and tacky, elaborate and deflationary. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Like a cocky teenager who's had a couple of drinks before the party, they don't have a plan for who they want to offend, only an intention to be as offensive as possible. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Surprisingly, the results are embarrassing. As puppetry, Team America is stilted. As satire, it's gutless and lazy. And as comedy, it barely delivers laughs. Read full review
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