My 4 year old son picked this DVD out in Walmart in 2008. I looked at it, and said sure. Overheard some of the conversation in the movie and my eyes went wide open. Anyways, he is 20 now and doing fine. No harm no foul.
I love the interview with Matt Damon where he says he loves South Park but doesn't understand why Matt and Trey made fun of him, and based on this interview Matt and Trey probably don't either.
I miss the fireside chats they had in first season of South Park. Especially when one would say they're proud of their Jewish heritage and the other would say they're antisemitic. All with smiles!
Team America was LOVED in UK, like The Simpsons (not sure about South Park) it certainly seemed to fit our humour more. Surprised at Canada though, I thought they were more similar to UK, although recent years (Trudeau etc) seem to have affected them somewhat?
Matt Damon did an interview about this movie and his interpretation was that they made him stupid as a foil to how incredibly smart he is in real life. No Matt. They made him stupid because the doll looked stupid and they had it say your name so people would know that was supposed to be you.
@@lukesfather3772 that isn’t true at all. So many of the roasters are touring this year, Tony Hinchcliffe is still regularly hosting KillTony. Where are you hearing they all got cancelled?
Sure they are. So when was the last time you actually talked to a young person, instead of getting your opinions of them from Fox News and washed up comedians?
Works on me. These guys aren't afraid to push back and we need more of that in this world. Even stating that things are too PC now is threatening the ideas of innovative people. Don't pander to the minority and screw what they think.
It wasn't their opposition to the war the movie was parodying. Both of them I think had at best ambivalent feelings about the war when it started. It was the self-righteousness and misguided belief of a lot of those actors that they're in a position to change the world, particularly because they don't have any true expertise on the topic.
Then you completely missed the Janeane Garofalo quote about them reading the news and then going on tv and pretending that the thoughts are their own. It was never about their individual politics, it was about them being pretentious and holier-than-thou BECAUSE of their politics; ripping on blue collar, middle Americans for having the audacity to vote for George Bush, the war monger, and not for the Clintons or Kerry who, surprise surprise, also turned out to be war mongers.
Unfortunately, Matt Damon didn’t have a sense of humor about his portrayal and took himself way too seriously. “I think history will be on my side and not theirs” (because the actors they made fun of in Team America were against the Iraq War). Which, sure, that’s well and good, but it’s not that deep dude. People will always like you more if you can laugh at yourself.
That is opposite to everything I've ever seen Matt Damon say about South Park and Team America. Of ALL of them, Matt Damon thought his portrayal was hilarious. Many interviews of him saying exactly that. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez and Sean Penn and Tim Robbins all pitched a baby fit. But I've seen Damon laughing about it in interviews.
Team America was blatantly pro-Iraq war. They mock other celebrities for acting like experts in geopolitics, but they never held that standard to themselves
@@cattysplat I’ve seen the movie many times and I love it while also acknowledging that it was pro-2003 invasion of Iraq. Take the scene where Hans Blix visits North Korea. Matt and Trey were parroting neocon talking points about Saddam Hussein and his WMDs
