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...surprising choice that Stone explains away with characteristically surrealist abandon. “Thunderbirds came on TV a couple of years ago and it really had such an interesting feel, but the stories were so boring and shitty so we started talking about how great it would be to do a movie like that,” Stone says. “It’s one of those things that was never intended to be funny, but now is really funny so it was kind of watching Thunderbirds and then kind of combining that with wanting to make...
...according to Stone, the idea driving the movie was always to remain as non-partisan as possible...
...freaks him out, Stone says, to think that anyone might be influenced to vote a certain way after seeing his movie...
Their goal is an honorable one, and as a result, the film is refreshingly even-handed in its satire. Stone says he hasn’t even seen any of the recently released polemic documentaries, and although he was something of a keynote interview in Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine, the controversial filmmaker gets lambasted in Team America with just as much, if not more, vitriol as the Bush administration...
It’s pretty close to the same joke as in Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, but it’s nevertheless effective. As Stone puts it, “it feels like one of our movies” and audiences should respond. Indeed, as South Park continues to get smarter and quicker, Parker and Stone—a couple of former waterheads from the University of Colorado—have accidentally become the elder wisemen of our time. Despite the TV show’s superficially immature bag of jokes, the American public—or at least...