Team America: World Police

Juvenile in the worst sense: confused and frightened by the adult world, and begging to be protected.

The first work from Parker and Stone that I'd describe as a failure of nerve.

I thought it was pretty clever.

Team America is at once grandiose and tacky, elaborate and deflationary.

Profane and sometimes bitingly funny.

Team America is not as funny as the South Park movie, and some of its juvenile humor falls flat. But when Team America works, it falls squarely into the category of guilty pleasure.

The whole thing plays like Thunderbirds Goes to Hell and will doubtless offend all those numskulls who complained about the BBC's transmission of Jerry Springer: The Opera. For that alone, it gets my vote.

The jarhead action, intentionally crappy parody songs, mélange of terrorist gibberish and semi-sensible anatomical analogies for foreign policy all let "Team America" rowdily resurrect the Zucker Brothers' spirit of peerless, puerile genre satire.

Raunchy action comedy from South Park team isn't for kids.

Putting the fun back into misanthrope

When it's not beating us over the head with "clever political satire", it can be a fun film.

Geniuses of satire Matt Stone and Trey Parker bring more laughs to the big screen after their wildly funny 1999 movie "South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut" with a cast of square-jawed marionettes fighting terror by way of North Korea's Kim Jong II in a re