South Park Creators Have A New Film

Vince C writes "Trey Parker and Matt Stone are back to filmmaking again. No, it is not a South Park movie and no they are not acting. In fact, it is a totally different media... marionettes. Yep! Puppets folks. They are making Team America:World Police. If you liked the original Thunderbirds and hate the live action remake but also love comedy sticking it to our current government then you are going to love Matt and Trey's new project. Trailer and more info at the movie's site."

Labelled already as liberal traitors

[Anonymous Coward]

And the White House has already called it abhorrent that someone's making fun of the War on Terror...

No, really [haifa.ac.il] (this is just one reference; Google finds many more).

Lemmiwinks

[DankNinja]

This is semi-related, but I heard a rumor that Comedy Central was not going to show the "Lemmiwinks" episode of South Park anymore. This came shortly after the FCC crack down on Clear Channel, et al.

Hah..

[bmantz65]

Can you say, "Puppet Sex?" [thestar.com]

"sticking it to the current government"

[rd_syringe]

Apparently, the submitter hasn't read the response from the creators where they plainly state that they skewer the left more than they do the right. Even the trailer says as much.

Trey and Matt are libertarians who despise both Republicans and Democrats (and rightly so).

Their response

[rd_syringe]

They were hardly called "liberal traitors." Nice hyperbole on your part. Nonetheless, they quickly responded that the Bush administration should actually wait and see the film--it criticizes the left more than the right. They are libertarians who despise both parties.

Re:Why not

[Anonymous Coward]

I was talking about Taco and crew. Parker and Stone are entertainers, and they know it. The /. bunch are falling into the trap of believing thier own bullshit.

Bush isn't even in the film

[rd_syringe]

According to Terry and Matt, he's not even in it.

Re:Stick it to the current government?

[brett42]

Since pretty much every episode started with Bush being unaware of an important issue, then taking a stupid stance on it, I wouldn't really call the character intelligent. He did seem like a typical sitcom character, but on a national scale.

<obvious cheap shot that I feel compelled to take(of course using lame psuedo-html to denote)>
Of course, the character might have seemed pretty intelligent compared to the original.
</obvious cheap shot that I feel compelled to take(of course using lame psuedo-html to denote)>

Re:Just saw the preview

[Aqua OS X]

hehe. Since when did Matt and Trey become conservative. Matt was in Bowling for Columbine ;)

Re:Memo to all movie websites

[sqrt(2)]

Now stop complaining. [mozdev.org]

Re:worrisome

[golgotha007]

George Bush and buddies *are* in the film. Watch the trailer.

Not a flamebait in the least, I am not pro anyone. However, it appears that some moderators are paranoid about these particular truths; I don't blame them.

How about this for an example:

Two individuals wore anti-Bush T-shirts on the president's July 4 rally. The pair were taken from the event in restaints after revealing T-shirts with Bush's name crossed out on the front and the words "Love America, Hate Bush" on the back. They were restained, publically humiliated and charged with trespassing (charges later dropped).
Wow, not unlike something the Russian politburo would have done in the 70's or 80's, hmm?

How's that for freedom of speech.

Re:I don't feel like installing flash...

[kyhwana]

Direct direct link.
http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/team_amer ica/team_america_m480.mov [apple.com]

Marionets are NOT Puppets

[mrjb]

Marionets are different from puppets. Marionets have wires, puppets are directly hand-controlled.

Hybrids of those are possible of course, and they exist too -- Muppets. They got both someone pulling their strings AND someone's hand up their ehrm... back. What a way to make a living.

Re:I cant wait.

[Anonymous Coward]

sorry mcfly, but Matt and Trey are libertarians and despise wacko leftist morons (John Kerry) 100x more than they hate Bush.

Re:Being Matt Stone and Trey Parker

[kurgan_cyberdude]

Malkovich WAS the puppet, John Cusak was the best puppeteer in the world.

Re:Just saw the preview

[mongbot]

Notice I said "in practice". In the Soviet system all production was centrally planned in the form of a massive central budget that involved tens of thousands of commodities. There was a government department, Gosplan, that decided how much of every commodity should be produced and the price that the commodity should be sold for. Actual Russian consumers had no say in what and how much should be produced, leading to massive disparities in price (e.g. oil was cheap but there was a 2-year waiting list to buy a car).

Re:Just saw the preview

[CrowScape]

I'd like to see how, considering Trey Parker has said Bush isn't in the film [nydailynews.com]. Normally when they make fun of someone, they characature them. If Bush isn't going to be shown, he's unlikely to be made fun of, at least all that much. But hey, it's nice to see the story submitter jumping to conclusions that aren't supported by the facts.

Re:I don't feel like installing flash...

[kyhwana]

;)
If you open up the normal .mov that it links to (in firefox, use "view page info") there's a filename, which will be "filename_m480.mov"
The filename being the same as the normal .mov, just replace the normal/first .mov with that.
Usually it's just blah_m480.mov which "blah_480.mov" "links" to.

Unfortuantly, I can't get mplayer to play the audio with that, but quicktime alternative/mediaplayerclassic in windows plays it ok.

Cannibal! The Musical

[SpaceRook]

I recommend Trey/Matt fans check out Cannibal! The Musical [imdb.com]. If you liked the musical numbers in South Park, you'll love this one. Some great squibs, also. Trey's horrible acting and 80's hair (even though the movie was made in the 90's) are hilarious. Don't let a slow start fool you. Listen to the drunken commentary track, too.

Wrong about Malkin

[jayrtfm]

>>Or how Malkin can go on TV and say Kerry shot himself for his medals?

from her site (http://michellemalkin.com/archives/000418.htm)

Here is how I responded verbatim:

"Well yeah. Why don't people ask him more specific questions about the shrapnel in his leg? There are legitimate questions about whether or not it was a self-inflicted wound."

Matthews frantically stuffed words down my mouth when I raised these allegations made in Unfit for Command that Kerry's wounds might have been self-inflicted. In his ill-informed and ideologically warped mind, this transmogrified into me accusing Kerry of "shooting himself on purpose" to get an award.

I repeated that the allegations involved whether the injuries were "self inflicted wounds." I DID NOT SAY HE SHOT HIMSELF ON PURPOSE and Chris Matthews knows it.

Only someone who had not read Unfit for Command would interpret what I was saying the way Matthews did. The book raises questions by vets, many of whom were with Kerry, about whether there was or wasn't enemy fire during the Dec. 1968 incident that led to his first Purple Heart (Patrick Runyon is quoted in a Boston Globe account on p. 35 saying "I can't say for sure that we got return fire or how [Kerry] got nicked. I couldn't say one way or the other. I know he did get nicked, a scrape on the arm.") and whether the injury came from a self-inflicted wound after he caught a tiny piece of shrapnel when he fired a grenade from his M-79 grenade launcher too close (p. 36); whether or not there was "intense rocket and rifle fire" during the Feb. 1969 incident that led to his second Purple Heart (Rocky Hildreth, officer of an accompanying boat on Dam Doi Canal that day, says there was no "intense rocket and rifle fire" on p. 78); and whether the shrapnel wound in his buttocks, which Kerry says he sustained in March 1969 and led to the awarding of his third Purple Heart, was the result of a mine explosion while on a mission or from a wound from his own grenade that he set off too close to a stock of rice he was trying to destroy (p. 87). See also pages 30-31. I was trying to get to these points, but Matthews would not let me finish a sentence.

Re:worrisome

[Keebler71]

Actually, the rally was a private party so technically they can kick out anyone they wish... and if I were a republican, I doubt I would want hecklers at my private party either. I'm not sure it has anything to do with freedom of speech. If it were a public event I would completely agree with you.

Re:Just saw the preview

[mr.mighty]

No, it was Matt. He didn't talk about how he went there, he talked about how Columbine was a rival high school.

Re:Just saw the preview

[DJTodd242]

Besides, the Soviet Union wasn't a communist country. As Marx writes, every country that adopts communism must go through a period of socialism first. It was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Re:Just saw the preview

[pohl]

But in the trailer, there's a long list of names, (presented as though they are actors) followed by "...are all going to be really, really mad when they see..." George W. Bush is one of those names. While it's possible that Bush will not be directly caricatured, the movie must contain something that would make him really, really mad...or it would violate all of those laws against false advertising that...oh, wait. Nevermind.

Spin Cycle

[The Monster]

Or how Malkin can go on TV and say Kerry shot himself for his medals?

You mean how she can go on TV to promote her book [amazon.com], but only if first she'll do a segment talking about the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth [swiftvets.com] ad campaign and the accompanying book Unfit for Command [amazon.com] which includes the idea that two of his Purple Heart injuries were the result of Kerry firing a machine gun and lobbing a grenade at nearby targets, which were so close that he actually caught shrapnel indirectly from his own actions.

You'd never know that from Chris Matthews' shameful attempt to portray her response to Willie Brown's comment about shrapnel circumstances as an accusation that the self-inflicted wounds were deliberate. Having set up this straw man, rather than allowing her to explain the details (he seems unable to allow anyone to speak for five seconds without interrupting them) he followed by cancelling the segment to discuss her book, which would have been good TV.

Re:Just saw the preview

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow. You should be banned from watching South Park because you are too stupid.

And you from posting. There is a pretty obvious bias in most South Park episodes. That you in some almost magical way manage to miss this is on its own quiet pathetic, but that you have to go on Slashdot and ridicule those who can see it is just sad.

Matt and Trey are making an immense amount of moral statements. There is indeed a "lesson" in most episodes. They have even admitted to it in interviews, and I remembered wondering why they even had to say it since it's so obvious. Now I know. It's because of people like you. You're so dumb it absolutely boggles the mind.

You might wanna check your facts....

[kajoob]

Matt Stone is a Republican and Trey Parker is a libertarian.

I saw an interview with Matt where he professed his Republicanism, and here [lp.org] is an article about Trey Parker's letter writing campaign and endorsements of Libertarian candidates.

Oh and their appearence in Bowling for Columbine? One thing about Michael Moore, if you agree with his views or not, is that he is extremely deceptive with his filmmaking. They didn't make the "History of the USA" cartoon that is in the movie. Michael Moore wrote the cartoon and gave you the impression that the South Park folks had done it by inserting clips from the real South Park in the rest of the movie, interviewing Matt Stone in the movie before the cartoon is shown, and having Harold Moss animate the cartoon in a style that mimics South Park's style. So the interview with the guys pretty much stands on it's own as "South Park and Littleton kinda suck." I don't know how you get "We're flaming liberals!" out of that.

They do tend to stick it to both sides though, I forget which of then said, "We hate conservatives. But we really fucking hate liberals."