I remember Stone and Parker were asked what they had against Matt Damon. They said nothing, its just that the puppet came out of the mold wrong. So they went with it.
The weird thing about the 'satire' though is that ultimately they're saying that America should be allowed to just fuck everything up because if they don't, nothing will be solved. It's actually kind of a fucked up, tacit approval of the Bush administration when you think about it
I saw it in a theater, and I swear I’ve never heard anybody laugh as loud as two girls in the row ahead of me at the sex scene. I was laughing pretty loud too, but they were losing it, and when they seemed to stop, they’d start all over again. Trey & Matt sure reached them.
My face was sore from laughing so much as i left the cinema. I'd love to go back and watch it again with my friend i went to see it with. Haven't seen her for years.
It's a shame that the production of this movie was apparently an absolute nightmare. For example: all these miniature sets, had to be build, blown up and then rebuild, because the first shot wasn't good. Also, they were working parallel on a Southpark season with 20 episodes at the time. According to Stone & Parker, this was the most miserable experience they had, working on a movie. When the whole thing was finit, everyone was just relived. That's why they refuse to make a sequel.
luckily a new team can take charge of this. but what a sequel would have in store is tricky when this is a parody of America being the badass of the world at the time
Plus, Matt and Trey overestimated how much they could pull off with marionettes compared to traditional animation. You could see them poking fun at their limitations in certain scenes, like the one-on-one "Fisticuffs" between a Team American Member and Terrorist in Paris. Factor in how frustratingly cumbersome they found operating them, it's no wonder they refused to do a sequel nor attempt another comedy using this method.
Well I was about 8 or 9 when this came out. Loved Thunderbirds and stingray and we'd seen nothing about this prior to seeing it in a shop on VHS. Got home and put it on and my mum came in wondering why me and my brother were giggling like hyenas. Obviously we didn't really understand some of it like the sec scene but she was mortified because she thought it were like Thunderbirds too. 😂
I've got Thunderbirds Are Go on DVD. I wanted to see the movie until I found out it was live action. What's the point? Like pro wrestling, everybody knew it was fake, but that's the fun of it.
@@nomadmarauder-dw9re we saw it being thunderbirds mad. I quite liked the thunderbird 1,3,5 designs but not 2 and 4. I thought Ben Kingsley was a brilliant hood, and a great baddie. Bill Paxton wasn't bad either as Jeff. Wotsit as penelope too. But the kids were just a bit crap. My memory is weird. It's crap for everything but I can still remember every damned word to the busted thunderbirds song 🤦♂️ like "spaceships come out of a pool" which deserves a 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
I found the Team America submarine torpedo for sale at an online prop auction and snatched it up. I don't think anyone really knew what it was, but it even said "Team America" on the side with juts some of "team" scratched off from production handling or whatever, but I recognized it instantly even though it was only on screen for about two seconds in the movie. Almost 2' long, It's one of my favorite props today.
@@crash-testproductions9341 Eiffel Tower and The Louvre are like the only ones I know. Fair point. Also because of your comment I am currently looking up French monuments. Says you have 40,000 of them though only 85 of them are classified national monuments.
@@HitokiriShingo Very well remembered man, that rhino scene was also one of the most genuinely funny things in the history of cinema. Screenwriters like that don't come along anymore!
2:20 I love how after that montage of what looks like a very technical and complicated surgery, it still looks like they just put shoe polish and pubes on his face 😂.
Loved this film. The world is ripe for a sequel right now, too. But they apparently hated working with the puppets so much they said they wouldn't do another one.
I saw this when it came out. I went to a small cinema in CHiba city,Japan, with a young lady I was seeing. I was the only non Japanese there. It was in English but with wildly inadequate subtitles in Japanese. I was crying laughing, in danger of a serious medical incident. Nobody else was laughing. The girl I was with was a little embarrassed. I still cry laughing at this masterpeice.
The valmorphication process with the montege from start to finish..........and the transformed Gary may be the funniest thing I've ever seen Along with the signal he has to give if he's in danger. 🤣🤣🤣
This is so easily the greatest movie ever made. Every frame is packed with so much brilliance on so many levels and dimensions its a class of film all in its own. And thats why it can be the greatest movie ever made because while all others compete with each other in some way or form, Team America stands above them all and competes with none.
THE most outrageously funny parody of an action movie ever. Never surpassed. For weeks afterwards, my usually demure wife and polite son were singing "America - fuck yeah!" at every opportunity.
5:05 - If I’m not mistaken, the vomit pump malfunctioned but they kept it in because they were dying of laughter! Similar to how Matt Damon’s doll came out warped and they decided it would now be “Matt Daamon”
I never noticed the 5 terrorists heading down bakalaka daka street are actually, really wearing towels on their heads. Like very clearly towels. Ive seen this movie 3 times now over the years. Never caught that 🤣
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The opening scene where Team America attacks the terrorists and blows up the entire city of Paris; and the French people who live there, are standing around, slack jawed and simply gob smacked at the damage, they are seeing; is priceless. I damn near died laughing when I saw that in the theater. What an incredible comedy tour de force. Bravo.
When I first watched the movie when it came out on DVD, one of the funniest things I'd ever seen. Physically fell off my couch laughing at least once during it. Absolutely skewered hollyweird and the Bush Admin at the time.
When you're french, listening to the movie in french, and curiously, the only character with an english accent is the french boy signing "Au clair de la lune" at the start of the movie.
they missed the funniest part of the film: "gary, if your cover is blown youll probably want to take your own life. here take this:" *puts a hammer on the table* 😂
I remember Stone and Parker were asked what they had against Matt Damon. They said nothing, its just that the puppet came out of the mold wrong. So they went with it.
“To be honest, it looks downsy”
“No… He is downsy”
100% how the conversation went down
"It came out looking F'n R +@rded" - Matt Stone
@@mattthornhill554yeah but nobody says “downsy”. It’s r3✝️@rd3d. But you can’t say r3✝️@rd3d anymore because we let the c0Ⓜ️Ⓜ️i3$ win
@@jimboSleeeeiiice No-one uses that word except outdated boomers for a reason.
@@Dreadpirateflappy yes I literally said why lmfao 🤡🤡🤡🤡
A movie like this will never happen again.
Exactly the same? No but Washington chainsawman exists
Yeah, cause if they tried, someone would just say "Wait, this is just Team America! They made this movie already!"
Just like the og clerks and clerks 2
Sure it will, chill
@stevvvvveperry Satire is often appreciated
The whole movie was unhinged
assuming it had hinges to begin with, honestly after the first ten minutes
the door was long long blown wide off
Ah, durka durka...
I came here just to say this 😂
@@michaelfairchildwhy does this translate?? Lol
@@jnlaw2644the door was never installed in the first place
“Matt Damon.”
MATT DAMON
Matt Damon...
mATt DaMOn
MaTt DaMoN
It was truly a Matt Damon moment.
This is the best satire of the 2000s Bush administration I’ve ever ever seen
Wait... this was satire?
We've always been good at embracing mockery and turning it into strength!
Bush? shit this accurately depicts the US even today.
Wow! Things were so MACHO, so different than the woke/gay 2020's!
Not like Obama’s foreign policy was any different
The weird thing about the 'satire' though is that ultimately they're saying that America should be allowed to just fuck everything up because if they don't, nothing will be solved. It's actually kind of a fucked up, tacit approval of the Bush administration when you think about it
The uncensored sex scene was some of the funniest shit I’ve ever seen 😂
That and the uncontrollable vomiting in the alley scene were worth watching the movie by themselves
I saw it in a theater, and I swear I’ve never heard anybody laugh as loud as two girls in the row ahead of me at the sex scene. I was laughing pretty loud too, but they were losing it, and when they seemed to stop, they’d start all over again. Trey & Matt sure reached them.
@@richardbossman9875 When the vomit started coming out in spurts and spatters, I laughed so hard that I couldn't get any air back into my lungs.
The sex scene was extended as a f-ck you to the ratings board as they would not give the movie a lesser rating so younger people could see it 😜
The sex scene.....rarely in my life had uncontrolled belly laughs like that
The first time I saw this movie, I was crying from laughter all the way through.
Same here. just amazing.
The sex scene killed me!
same here
My face was sore from laughing so much as i left the cinema. I'd love to go back and watch it again with my friend i went to see it with. Haven't seen her for years.
Me too, thanks. As I was laughing the entire time I missed 85% of dialogue
I feel like the last 'WOOOO' from Tim Robbins as he burns to death is never talked about enough. It totally sends me
Big Lez show tribute.
Same here! That last WOOOOO had me in tears!!! 😂
Same😂
Always gets me 😂😂
It just comes out of nowhere, and it's hilarious
It's a shame that the production of this movie was apparently an absolute nightmare.
For example: all these miniature sets, had to be build, blown up and then rebuild, because the first shot wasn't good.
Also, they were working parallel on a Southpark season with 20 episodes at the time.
According to Stone & Parker, this was the most miserable experience they had, working on a movie.
When the whole thing was finit, everyone was just relived.
That's why they refuse to make a sequel.
Luckily, there doesn't need to be a sequel.
luckily a new team can take charge of this. but what a sequel would have in store is tricky when this is a parody of America being the badass of the world at the time
@@seid3366 what other team would even take this on?
Plus, Matt and Trey overestimated how much they could pull off with marionettes compared to traditional animation. You could see them poking fun at their limitations in certain scenes, like the one-on-one "Fisticuffs" between a Team American Member and Terrorist in Paris. Factor in how frustratingly cumbersome they found operating them, it's no wonder they refused to do a sequel nor attempt another comedy using this method.
They work pretty well under pressure. Matt and Trey are genuine geniuses.
This movie is an underrated masterpiece, both in satire and technique.
Exactly right, however daft the movie can be, it's structurally solid and perfectly presented.
Agree, an absolute classic, made back in a time when people weren't offended by a sound their ears heard.
“Matt Damon”
Truly, these are words to live by
I say that every time I see him on tv and nobody gets it.
“Arec Barwin, you are worthress!”
Matt Damon to you aswell.
certainly one of the most unique movies i've seen.
The coreography of the hand to hand fight scenes was amazing
@@geg5274plz I learned everything I know about sex from that 1 scene!
It's "the" most unique movie ever... With puppets.
@@johnsherman6585puppets???😮
It's either unique or not.
For those of us who grew up watching Thunderbirds it was hysterical satire
1:04
I was blessed to get raised on the Thunderbirds in the early 00s and catch this movie as a teen. Truly iconic movie.
Well I was about 8 or 9 when this came out. Loved Thunderbirds and stingray and we'd seen nothing about this prior to seeing it in a shop on VHS. Got home and put it on and my mum came in wondering why me and my brother were giggling like hyenas. Obviously we didn't really understand some of it like the sec scene but she was mortified because she thought it were like Thunderbirds too. 😂
I've got Thunderbirds Are Go on DVD. I wanted to see the movie until I found out it was live action. What's the point? Like pro wrestling, everybody knew it was fake, but that's the fun of it.
@@nomadmarauder-dw9re we saw it being thunderbirds mad. I quite liked the thunderbird 1,3,5 designs but not 2 and 4. I thought Ben Kingsley was a brilliant hood, and a great baddie. Bill Paxton wasn't bad either as Jeff. Wotsit as penelope too. But the kids were just a bit crap.
My memory is weird. It's crap for everything but I can still remember every damned word to the busted thunderbirds song 🤦♂️ like "spaceships come out of a pool" which deserves a 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
"I promise I will never die" is the single funniest joke in cinematic history imo.
"matt Damon" was funny as well 6:31
I promise
"Bakalakadakka street!"
Durka, durka? muhammad jihad!
@@theshuriken Durka sherpa sherpa
I was rolling at that! I watched it like 6 times
Do you remember the signal?
I love how google asks if i want to translate that, ahaha
The “We’re Dicks!” Scene is probably the most impactful speech I’ve seen in cinema that still has relevance today
I"m DYIN HERE!🤣😅😂
This isnt about sex Gary!
Words to live by... "If you don't let us fuck this asshole, then we're gonna have our dicks and our pussies all covered in shiiiit" 😂
Yes Gary...Yesssss
America, Fuck yeah is the best song in the history of songs.
Nah.
@@aarons6935 ratio
Came on my Spotify while I was cooking, When they say “slavery! fuck yeah!” my son was all “did they just say slavery?”
Fuck yeah!
Fuck yeah
Fun fact: the french kid at the start was voiced by Jeremy Shada, the voice of Finn from Adventure time!
He had to be like 5
Also i hear south park voice actors in here
@@lefywazhere7582 that's because the movie's directed by South Park's creators; Matt Stone and Trey Parker
@@thatswhatshesaid2777 i kinda thought so, thats cool! Ill have to look into it
@@lefywazhere7582 well matt and trey made this movie so yeah they voiced like alot of them
This movie is a national treasure
It should get the criterion collection treatment
"International" Treasure....... Now.... for a "montage"
Matt and Trey said on Conan that this movie was a nightmare to make. They advise all people to not make puppet movies. 😂
I'm guessing Gerry Anderson would have said the same thing!
“I got 5 terrorists going east on Bakalakadaka street”😂😂😂😂
I found the Team America submarine torpedo for sale at an online prop auction and snatched it up. I don't think anyone really knew what it was, but it even said "Team America" on the side with juts some of "team" scratched off from production handling or whatever, but I recognized it instantly even though it was only on screen for about two seconds in the movie. Almost 2' long, It's one of my favorite props today.
That's cool as. Nice find 🙂
How much?
@@Mike5Brown 'bout tree fiddy
@@tomlangron2532god damn Loch Ness monster
That’s awesome you should post it on RUclips
2:42 love the little fella just doin his jihad jingle
I saw this in theaters with my bud junior year of highschool. We were crying laughing during the puking scene.
Same here 😂
Freedom costs a buck oh fiiiiiivvveeee!
I'm crying laughing now just thinking about it!😂
i need you like ben affleck needs acting school. holy shit thats a good line
That first clip aged like fine wine
Art imitates life 🤣
DURKA! DURKA!
Wait wtf.... It translates to the woods!
Ah, durka durka durka
Muhammad jihad
Bahk Alah, Muhammad jihad
Durka Mohammad jihad
I love it how team America destroys everything. 😂😂
I suspect the irony here would be lost on the Trump MAGA morons
0:57 First here then in GI JOE, guess America really hates the Eiffel Tower…
And we gave them the Eiffel tower lol.
@@aydenlokey3641and all we got was a green lady statue?
What a rip.
And then MW3 (The OG one) happened.
No it's just America don't know any other french monument. If you showed them Versailles they would just ask : is it a british castle ?
@@crash-testproductions9341 Eiffel Tower and The Louvre are like the only ones I know. Fair point. Also because of your comment I am currently looking up French monuments. Says you have 40,000 of them though only 85 of them are classified national monuments.
The complete vomit scene is one of the most hilarious things that I ever see in a movie. Team America is a unique film, CLASSIC!
This and Ace Ventura coming out of the rhino were the hardest I've laughed at the theater hahaha
@@HitokiriShingo Very well remembered man, that rhino scene was also one of the most genuinely funny things in the history of cinema. Screenwriters like that don't come along anymore!
6:57 Very enthusiastic immolation!
Wooooooo!!
😂😂😂
I feel so ronery! 😂🤣
Awe-inspiring, oscar-worthy speech - 6:58
The Best Part.
You Could Barely See ALL THE STRINGS !!!
... just like in real life 😂 🤔 😳
This movie is absolutely perfect…the DVD release that is. I crack up big time every time I watch. “Only a woman”.
_"I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting school"_
I lost it...
2:20 I love how after that montage of what looks like a very technical and complicated surgery, it still looks like they just put shoe polish and pubes on his face 😂.
Loved this film. The world is ripe for a sequel right now, too. But they apparently hated working with the puppets so much they said they wouldn't do another one.
The Eiffel Tower and destruction of Paris takes me back to the good ol' days of hours and hours of playing Twisted Metal 2-my all time favorite game.
Down-up-right-left-up-up-down-down. (How the hell do I still remember that? 😛)
I laughed the whole movie,best satire of American patriotism,and Islam
I saw this when it came out. I went to a small cinema in CHiba city,Japan, with a young lady I was seeing. I was the only non Japanese there. It was in English but with wildly inadequate subtitles in Japanese. I was crying laughing, in danger of a serious medical incident. Nobody else was laughing. The girl I was with was a little embarrassed. I still cry laughing at this masterpeice.
This is my favorite Susan Sarandon movie
The valmorphication process with the montege from start to finish..........and the transformed Gary may be the funniest thing I've ever seen
Along with the signal he has to give if he's in danger.
🤣🤣🤣
This is so easily the greatest movie ever made. Every frame is packed with so much brilliance on so many levels and dimensions its a class of film all in its own. And thats why it can be the greatest movie ever made because while all others compete with each other in some way or form, Team America stands above them all and competes with none.
7:11 china looking at Russias big hat
team America is just "America be like" memes
the end theme:
'guns... F*** yeah!'
'freedom.. f*** yeah!'
'books..................'
0:14 they will remember that
You live under a rock or what
Gary's transformation 😂😂😂😂😂😂
"You shall die a peasant's death!" -Susan Sarandon
2:54 ,BakkaLakkaDakka street cracks me up every time.
One look at that thumbnail, and I'm already in tears! 🤣
The Epstien list was shown to us ,without even knowing what we were looking for. Fuck Yaaa.
As a family we held Team America evenings. Must do anther one soon!
I can never hear "Magic Carpet Ride" without envisioning puppets dancing.
lol same
Funniest shit I've ever seen in my entire life.....and I'm 60!!🤣🤣👍👍
It never stops being twistedly hilarious
"The corporations finances Team America"
And who finances you actors? 😂
That’s so true.
THE most outrageously funny parody of an action movie ever. Never surpassed. For weeks afterwards, my usually demure wife and polite son were singing "America - fuck yeah!" at every opportunity.
France today makes that first clip even more hilarious
The most American movie I ever watched
Self-Deprecating Self-Aggrandizing,
@rimfire8217 I don't think it can be both..? I don't remember it posing America in a positive or most powerful light 🤣
M Y A T T D Y A I M O N !
Trey parker an matt stone are fuckin great
Say what you will I absolutely loved this movie then and still do the ending asshole speech is one of the best movie speeches of all time
Fun fact: They had to ask the puppetiers to go more goofy because the scenes were looking very professional
5:46 Love the Wilhelm scream haha
Amazing film ! Based on a true story too !
🤣
I needed this to cheer me up, I've been feeling ronery.
5:05 - If I’m not mistaken, the vomit pump malfunctioned but they kept it in because they were dying of laughter!
Similar to how Matt Damon’s doll came out warped and they decided it would now be “Matt Daamon”
Paris needs more Team America. Badly.
Yeah Paris is the new Baghdad
Vous n'avez pas idée à quel point.
I know ,they didn't quite level it enough lol.
He voudrais un petit Team America sulvouplait
Why?
I never noticed the 5 terrorists heading down bakalaka daka street are actually, really wearing towels on their heads. Like very clearly towels. Ive seen this movie 3 times now over the years. Never caught that 🤣
I like how hard the soundtrack is overcompensating when the kid is on screen.
The Soundtrack is one of the gems of this movie. The Orchestration through the 'Dicks, pussies & assholes' speech is outstanding. 👍
0:04 just your average day in present day Paris 🙃
Bonjour Mr.Ahmed
And London and most of western Europe
And Albania
Andorra
Austria
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czechia
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Georgia
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Kosovo
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Moldova
Montenegro
Netherlands
North Macedonia
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
San Marino
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
I don’t get it
@@beanieguitarguy4070
The amount of Muslims that live in France and the lack of French people due to mass immigration is what this is about.
Watched this 5 times in the theatre in 2 weeks.
I'm crying watching this hahaha. I gotta watch this movie again.
It's about trust, Gary.
This was the most important movie of our time. So many lessons.
If you showed the first clip to someone in France 2024 , they would believe it was ....pretty recent.
It's like watching a documentary.
The opening scene where Team America attacks the terrorists and blows up the entire city of Paris; and the French people who live there, are standing around, slack jawed and simply gob smacked at the damage, they are seeing; is priceless. I damn near died laughing when I saw that in the theater. What an incredible comedy tour de force. Bravo.
Movies like this and Tropic Thunder will never happen again.
You can put Airplane and Blazing Saddles in that category as well.
I will never forget the sound that erupted from the audience in the theatre I was in, as we sat thru the puppet sex scene.
Thunderbirds use to creep me out when I was a kid. This however is comedy gold ha ha.
This film was savage 😂
When I first watched the movie when it came out on DVD, one of the funniest things I'd ever seen. Physically fell off my couch laughing at least once during it. Absolutely skewered hollyweird and the Bush Admin at the time.
I hope the Film Actors Guild is doing fine right now
0:00 you are a native frenchman going for a walk in Paris
1:48 freedom isn’t free, it takes folks like you and me…
Banger of a song
I hear Kiiyaah!! Amd I'll always hear Randy Marsh XD
6:56 that "woooo!!" got me
2:24
Became a saying for us in Iraq....LOL
Hahaha.
(we should not have gone to Iraq, that was a huge waste of money)
AMERICA FUCK YEAH
When you're french, listening to the movie in french, and curiously, the only character with an english accent is the french boy signing "Au clair de la lune" at the start of the movie.
"Aids! Aids! Aids, aids, aids, aids! Aids, aids, aids, aids, aids, aids-aids!"
AIDS!
they missed the funniest part of the film:
"gary, if your cover is blown youll probably want to take your own life. here take this:"
*puts a hammer on the table* 😂
They should have made intelligence a female computer and called it "miss information"
Think they already did that on south park
7:00
Dedicated Infantry Combat Killers....HOOAH!
LOL
3rd ID Iraq 2003
'jihad.. jihad.. malalakaaka' - Star Wars Cantina (Islam remix)
A cinematic masterpiece
They need to make a sequel.
The production process for this movie was so painstaking that tray and Matt swore off ever making a sequel
Matt Damon!
My aunt and uncle loved this movie. Wish I'd seen it but was too young.
I really like that somehow they can make stuff like this and one of the best musicals ever
Aye, it's easy to forget that it is a musical.
This movie is cinematic masterpiece. Will be one of my faves forever👌🏼🙌🏼