The Reel Rejects - TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE (2004) F*** YEAH!! MOVIE REACTION!!

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Starting point is 00:01:03 More on them in just a bit. All right, Reject Nation, well, we just watched Team America, World Police. I'll go to you first, John. How are you feeling? You had a stressful-ass time today, and now we have just watched the comedy. What are your honest thoughts? Are your feelings change at all? You're still stressed?

Starting point is 00:01:35 I certainly feel... I won't interrupt you. Yeah, no, it's good. But, uh... Fuck you go, man. A, A, A. America. I feel very patriotic right now.

Starting point is 00:01:53 No, I feel, yes, elevated. I was transported for a while. This is actually a fun movie to put on... on such a day as this type of day, partly because you're transported into a world that's like so far removed, by virtue of the fact that, yeah, you have all these interesting miniatures and sets

Starting point is 00:02:14 and these marionette puppets, and it's just like so different from what, at least I am normally used to looking at, you know, even in the puppeteering space, I don't see as many marionettes as other things. And yes, I mean, you know, this has the charge, of what like a south anything that comes from trademark park parker and matt stone does where it's like yeah it's a bit crass and crude and it's trying to be you know sort of as offensive as it can be

Starting point is 00:02:41 on kind of every level that it attempts and also has you know some surprising heart thrown in for you know good measure and it does have in its own unique way at least a real sense of commentary it really feels like they are attempting to make a comment. And I know that, you know, the political leanings of Trey Parker and Matt Stone are always up for debate amongst people. I feel like they are often, I don't know if they're actually libertarians, or they just kind of fall into that, you know, category often in popular discourse. But yes, like as a action movie from the time that this came out, you know, you're in a post-9-11 Bush era. Yeah, like this hyper crazy

Starting point is 00:03:26 jingoistic just like absurd yeah world police force as I feel like the conversation was often about us trying to be at the time and throughout our sort of you know history as we've grown a greater access and grasp on the rest of the world now that we're established of the American experiment

Starting point is 00:03:44 so yeah it does sort of nicely highlight the sort of narrow POV on just other cultures of the world and and how we depict them and also of how we approach, you know, Warcraft, but also, you know, it's certainly filtered through a certain, yeah, like layer of ignorance, I suppose, that helps the satire a lot.

Starting point is 00:04:09 Like, you know, I think you pointed out at some point there, and that, like, you might be able to watch this depending on who you are and what you've seen in this life and what you've read in this life, that, you know, you might see this and not register the satire. Yeah. I think. What I was talking about? You said that?

Starting point is 00:04:24 I did that. No, I did. I did. I did. Come now. You could miss the satire. And I feel like a lot of people in high school were probably really into this and probably, I know for a fact, kids were doing Kim Jong voice a lot. So like, yeah, there are ways in which this may be, if you're putting it into the hands of people who don't quite get the full spectrum of it, you know, it might inspire some off-color behaviors. But, you know, it's all, it's part and parcel with what kind of. comes with a Trey Parker, Matt Stone thing, and I found this to be very bonkers in a way that I mostly enjoy. And, yes, the sort of ultimate lay of, yeah, having this world terrorist sort of coalition then going up against, but ultimately aligning with, like, actors and just people in the public eye who are, like, trying to do something with their power, but don't quite know what or how. Like, it's pretty funny. And then all the songs and stuff. Yeah, I enjoyed myself.

Starting point is 00:05:26 There's plenty, I feel like, to talk about with a movie like this and plenty of ways to look at, like, how does it hold up? And how is its commentary on all of the things that it comments on, not just like how we behave as America through the eye of an action movie lens. But, yeah, I was just really dazzled by the craftsmanship. I think that was my favorite thing. It was, like, watching something again that I'm like, I don't think anybody would pay for this nowadays unless it was, like, way cheaper.

Starting point is 00:05:52 Like, I don't know. I'm curious to know how much this cost. and what it made because this seems like one of those like oh my god we have the opportunity and we clearly can do whatever we want because south park generally speaking so let's throw this big dice roll and like make this expensive ass weird silly puppet movie and like that just seems like something a studio would be like waha ha ha you know which is very funny to me and like the love and craftsmanship that goes into so many of the you know set pieces and sets and all the other things combined with like the weird uncanny valley of the puppets is like it's like

Starting point is 00:06:23 silly and dumb in a very impressive way. I love I love like really like crafted silliness I suppose and this had a lot of that yes

Starting point is 00:06:34 I'm glad you liked it John it was fun I had a good time Aaron I I get Aaron's down the middle on this

Starting point is 00:06:42 I don't feel like it's yeah I'm not saying it's like a perfect movie but for what it is it's enjoyable what I will say is that I did like it more than a South Park movie

Starting point is 00:06:52 but no buts I moved it was bothering me so I moved that's why that's why I did that as he was talking

Starting point is 00:07:00 I don't know if you know it was there it was there was there looking at it isn't my sight my eye vision sight I was being helpful

Starting point is 00:07:07 anyway I can say that I like this movie I think that I definitely did laugh I definitely did laugh there were bits that did get me give me moments

Starting point is 00:07:19 of levity so to speak that's granted that's the purpose of this movie, so make you laugh. It's comedy. And I really appreciated the commentary that it was making about America's role in the world and this hyper patriotism that, you know, the people have when, you know, especially at this time in America, but without really examining the consequences of what that patriotism.

Starting point is 00:07:46 Something you're saying keeps setting my phone off. I don't know what it is. Yeah, I'm going to keep saying it. So keep on airplane, though, I don't understand. Just keep looking at it until it's set again. America, America, America. Document what he's saying. But yeah, I think that I was really impressed with how they were able to make a feature film based off of something that seemed like it could be like a short half-hour gag.

Starting point is 00:08:17 And it walked this line of being parody while also having a semblance of kind of. taking itself seriously like it it walked the beats of actually having a plot of this type of a movie within a genre doing it but acknowledging the the tropey ridiculousness of of some of those things um it's i i feel a little conflicted because i mostly laughed and like i feel like some of the bits you guys like the throw-up bit was probably my favorite bit in the movie just like that was the gag didn't uh didn't end but it And also, like, I don't fucking muggle my liberal brain fucking, I'm all like, I understand that, you know, some of the, uh, the accents that they were doing in the movie were like, it was supposed to be supposed to be funny taking light. And ours also part of me is like, you know, because of the time, I'm like, because of the time, I also was like, man, I feel like people were actually like Middle Eastern.

Starting point is 00:09:16 People would, like, I actually talked to them and would say, like, what the things they're saying in this movie just because it's just like, oh, this is like cultural osmosis and whatnot. But I think that the way that they were able to execute what they were attempting to do was very well handled, even if all the jokes didn't work for me. I appreciated how impressive the production of it was. And can't acknowledge that there are things that it's weird because at some point it feels, some parts feel dated and other parts still feel relevant, like all the stuff with the actors. because that's definitely still very prevalent, even today, as Greg crosses his legs and his arms and looks at me. But I just thought it was fun. It's a little cold in here. It is a little cold.

Starting point is 00:10:05 As cold, I'm hungry, and I, America, I had fun. I had fun. It's not my traditional cup of tea. I like more like absurdist stuff. But for the times that I did laugh, boy, did I laugh. And that's how I feel. back to you Greg holding back a little bit I want to hear what you didn't what you didn't like

Starting point is 00:10:28 um all the humor worked for me I thought there's parts where I were just like oof that's I don't really find that very funny not because I'm like have my panties in a bunch I was just like I don't know some of the stuff felt like fucking um I don't know like little early 2000 little second little middle school to me

Starting point is 00:10:47 a little edge lord yeah a lot of edge lord in here there's certainly jokes here and there, and I was like, I didn't need that, but thank you. Okay, yeah, and it makes me think of like, because we know we have, like, channels like like the Daily Wire and like Angel Studios, making like their more conservative movies and kind of to build on the fact that there are movies that are, that something like this could go over people's heads

Starting point is 00:11:13 that aren't as, I guess, aware, politically aware of what they're trying to do because I feel like politics have gotten to such a point, of division being so anti-woke that this would speak to that on a like a on a genuine level to them rather than being something that they're trying to make a commentary of that's the problem of satire yeah and it makes me think of something like well i i think if there was the if republicans if hardcore republicans if people on the hard right and far left watch this i feel like people on the far left would laugh at certain parts of how it mocks far right points of views and then people and they would isolate that when talking about it on

Starting point is 00:11:56 youtube and i think there's other moments like the actors where i think people on the far right would use that as to to push their agenda so i think that's the i think that's what they do is they attack they do attack all sides in this movie so i feel like they make it pretty fair no yeah for the most part they they make it pretty fair i can say that i can agree with that Um, yeah, it was, like I said, it was all right. It was okay. Um, I probably wouldn't watch it again. Like, you know, the age's own. Like, I'm not, I'm not going to shame if this was like your bread and butter is your favorite movie growing up. I get it. It's like from the early 2000s. It's very edgy early 2000s coded. And, you know, I'm not a man in the early 2000s. Even though some stuff still work for me. And sometimes comedy's universal. Other times it ages like milk. And, um, damn. Some cartons do be expired, but that's okay. That's okay. Greg, toss that milk.

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Starting point is 00:16:10 Prize picks, people, run your game. I was more impressed then. Do you guys hear that outside? I think that's all the people hitting the dislike button for Aaron. I think I did hear it. Yeah. I was trying to be nice. You all told me to go in.

Starting point is 00:16:27 No, man. I'm not like your opinion is going to affect mine. I get it. No, I mean, I think comedy of all things is super subjective. I don't feel like there's any reason to be. At the end of the day, it's like the kind of, A, you don't really get comedy movies anymore. You really don't.

Starting point is 00:16:44 And be what comedy, and there is a certain, just like with any job. genre, action, horror. There's, like, a certain type of action movie that keeps coming around, a certain type of horror movie, it keeps coming around at a certain period. And then now it's like, I don't really know what you have quantified comedy as. I feel like the stand-up scene is really strong.

Starting point is 00:17:03 But, like, comedy movies, not so much. And there, of course, there are parts that are a little bit, like, just super juvenile humor. But I guess to me, I was able, and maybe, I'm not saying this is not what you, you weren't able to understand, just because. just because you get it doesn't mean you have to like it so I'm not going to try to convince you to like something right or that you didn't get it or that you didn't get it yeah yeah is that

Starting point is 00:17:32 like when it comes to the like the Asian jokes or like with the the R place the R the L or the or the Dyrka Durka with the Middle Eastern people I think they're making fun the whole point is to not laugh at like Middle Eastern people or Asian people I think the point is to laugh at the interpretations that a lot of movies and media will lay down about like they're making fun of that of what of the of the typical portrayals or the way our point like it's ridiculous when you're watching it it's ridiculous and there are people who have this simplistic racial point of view towards certain groups or things and I'd like that the movie was inhabiting that in it for making fun of it in a way that was kind of like they used the action genre tropes in order to magnify um the in order to magnify racial point of views or to magnify uh patriotism when it turns to american propaganda i so i guess i was just getting a big kick out of it

Starting point is 00:18:44 there are times where it's like yeah it's a little bit of an annoying scene there there are times where i would find myself a little bit annoyed or there are times where i would find myself a little bit annoyed or there are times I would be not I'm not there's like a joke every five seconds in this movie so not every joke is funny to be but there's a lot of it is really funny to me because I was also

Starting point is 00:19:01 impressed with like the craft of it and the like the practicality of what they assembled like this looks like a movie where they actually really cared about how they turned out like there's a lot of effort in the in in the in the

Starting point is 00:19:19 they clearly watch a lot of action movies with love and they threw that in here you could tell that they actually probably like action films as much as they were spoofing what an action movie is so I think it works on like a

Starting point is 00:19:35 multiple meta spoof level of something that mad just to be a political comedy but using the backdrop of an action spoof there's something kind of clever to me about it and while some stuff is like just very very edgy and very much like racially charged i always i never felt like i was laughing at the race i felt

Starting point is 00:19:55 like i was laughing at the people who they're making fun of the people who interpret that way yeah i found it more impressive than funny but i definitely understand understandable yeah but like the way they also drive home the way we are as americans with war and stuff and i'm no political expert at all um but you know like there's this obvious moments in you like when they're showing up like we got to stop weapons of mass destruction and terrorists and then they're just like blowing up the country they're in it and I mean yeah they keep

Starting point is 00:20:25 cutting to these wide chain reactions the shit that we do in the name of stopping terrorism you know yeah the name of stopping terrorists where we become terrorists ourselves yeah yeah killing and maiming and destroying in the name of peace yeah yeah so I thought I thought it was funny I mean like there's

Starting point is 00:20:42 limitations I think in storytelling of what you can as I could see a version nowadays where if they didn't, as much as there's like puppet gags, eventually you get used to the novelty of the puppetry and like puppet, puppet jokes stopped working after a certain point because it's like, yeah, we get it. It's funny the first like half hour,

Starting point is 00:20:59 40 minutes maybe. You're right up to the SCX scene. But after a certain point, yeah, it's like I do think you can do another version where you're perhaps a little bit more character because there was moments where there was heart. I was like, I know they're like making fun of the action movie

Starting point is 00:21:15 heart tropes. Yeah. but it's actually helping make this movie more interesting you know yeah it has just enough of that stuff it's weird it has like enough context to where this hasn't been like outright shunned as like a you know like a truly off putting offensive in a in a strong sense it's like it's like low it's like lower case offensive it's making fun with the stereotype yeah yeah yeah in a large like going like hardcore extreme about it yeah yeah it's the same like every other I mean, it's like the American characters, you know, there are a handful of accents. There's the guy who swears all the time.

Starting point is 00:21:51 And then they're like the silly American South accents. And then everybody who's from somewhere else just has like the boilerplate, gibberish salad that like anybody, you know, is so inclined might do just at like a party. If they're trying to impersonate somebody like, it is that. It's like, yeah, it's the, if you're just trying to like whip up off the dome a caricature of some other race or language, that's what you're used to hearing. you know out there you know in at least places like america where you know we're looking outward from and uh yeah it speaks to yeah it's it speaks to that kind of but i would never limited perspective i think i think it's an equal opportunity film in the sense that it's it's making fun of all things fairly equally and also making fun of americans in the the the tropes

Starting point is 00:22:39 of the action film so i'm not like i'm not like fucking pearl clutched offended by the movie I think that I'm in like a place Defending myself I think in terms of like Your comedy It makes sense to me Like you just don't find it

Starting point is 00:22:50 That funny Like it's like Like that's totally fine To watch a comedy And be like That just wasn't that funny To me it's a comedy Yeah

Starting point is 00:22:58 And there is a ton If you don't laugh you don't laugh I did laugh though There were parts that I did find funny It just It wasn't like But gusting Except for one scene

Starting point is 00:23:06 Yeah And I think it's different When there's like a camera pointed You know Like I think What I mean by that is I think sometimes a movie where it's not funny

Starting point is 00:23:16 the parts that are that can be like irate or annoying can perhaps feel more annoying because you might feel like you need to be laughing because you're reacting or something I don't know because if I'm at home with a comedy there's so much comedies I've watched at home that I'm like yeah I like that but I wasn't really laughing

Starting point is 00:23:35 that's yeah I think that's more so I felt but sometimes when there's a camera you do feel like oh man I wish this movie was making me laugh more yeah because there's a camera here. It's going to look like I don't like. Yeah. There's quite a few moments in this movie where I was like, that was funny, but I'd actually laugh at it because I just internally thought it was funny more so than just like outwardly expressing it. So yeah, it's, it's, I don't know, it was a middle of the road experience for me, but I didn't dislike it. I just didn't love it. That's what that's

Starting point is 00:24:03 fair. That's fair. And there's a, there's a, I have to imagine it's a high variation in mileage for like how much certain, like you said, puppetry gags are going. going to, like, carry it because I feel like for certain, for some type of viewer that might work for a lot longer. And then there are certain jokes where you're like, this is only funny because it's puppets. Well, sometimes if the puppet stuff, it looked genuinely cool. Yeah. It was like a cool looking movie. And the original soundtracks were really funny to me. The montage song might have been. Like, the America song is like, you know, classic. But the montage song, I thought was brilliant. And to edit it over like a montage. And this looks expensive

Starting point is 00:24:42 as hell. I would like to know how, let me, let me ask Siri and then we'll wrap this up. Or Google. Google. How long did it take to make Cat, I got to America, Team America. Team America. Drum roll.

Starting point is 00:25:00 I bet this took it, yeah, this had to have taken a minute. It took years to make it. Oh, wow. How many? No specific. I like to years. But yeah, I'm like watching the opening. I'm like, Man, this is opening would take like six months. Seems like it would.

Starting point is 00:25:16 I mean, yeah. Aaron is shitting all over it. I know. Boomy. Ruining the entire experience for everyone. No, man. It's totally fair. I had a fun time.

Starting point is 00:25:26 John had a fun time. Did have a fun time. Aaron had an all right time. And that's okay. That's okay. You just won't watch anything from these guys anymore. I will protect you. I will protect you.

Starting point is 00:25:38 Just like boy, I won't watch Monty by none anymore. Oh, Oh, buddy. So I will protect you. This costs $32 million. Amazing. Well, guys, what do you think about Team America World Police?

Starting point is 00:25:51 Does it hold up for you? Do you still find it funny? Are you more like Aaron? You're more like John or you more like John and Greg? Here are your thoughts down below. We'll talk to you guys soon. Mikhail Lyndon. Oh, it's going to be fun.

Starting point is 00:26:06 Well, we already know what Mikhail means. It's like Michael. unless it's like got a special alternate shit put it in put a mcale's name swedish before hit your answer okay there you go yeah mcale Swedish okay cool

Starting point is 00:26:21 so here's how this works mikhail I'm gonna guess your name means John's gonna guess your name means whoever is closest to the actual meaning wins the round hit enter okay oh I know we have a guess we gotta get we'll look at the results and then we'll guess McHale means A seductor.

Starting point is 00:26:43 Ooh, I'm going to say Mikhail means the light at the top of a mountain. Something to do with God is it. Something to fucking. Yeah, okay.

Starting point is 00:26:54 We're going to do Lyndon because we've already had Michael who are like God. Okay, let's do Lyndon. Lyndon means bringer of light. It means linens wrapped around your body.

Starting point is 00:27:05 Okay. Ooh, the name Linden has multiple meanings, including Linden Tree, or from the Flax Hill, and a topographic name. A Germanic title that refers to the Linden Tree, which has heart-shaped leaves. That's so cool. Or there was a sacred healing plant in ancient Greece and Egypt. In Roman mythology, the Linden Tree was dedicated to Venus, the goddess of love, fertility, and fidelity. And the name, Lyndon, didn't you say something about being sexy? I said, bring her a light. Bring her. That's...

Starting point is 00:27:40 I said, McHale means seductive. From the flax hill, places where flax cultivation was common. If you have English ancestors. We get flax seeds from them? Yeah, I guess so. Lyndon, McHale gave us flax seeds.

Starting point is 00:27:52 And then... Oh, you help keep me cleansed. Dude, you're killing it. I get that on top of my... My asai bowls. I put that on top of my fiber. I put that... Like fiber in my fiber.

Starting point is 00:28:03 Thanks, Mikhail, for keeping us regular.

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