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...other hand, this movie also tells me that beating the hell out of puppets is funny. Although Parker and Stone manage to do some impressive stuff with these marionettes, in the end, they are just little toy people hanging from very visible strings and this ridiculous mise-en-scene is the source of a lot of this movie’s laughs...
...comic and self-aware movie that mixes political commentary with jokes about the least-attractive of our bodily functions; it will satisfy everyone from those who rarely think to those who think far, far too much. I mean, seriously, it’s about puppets. But, as Parker and Stone liberally show, puppets can—and will—bleed just like...
...Rolling Stone has described her music as “gritty realism.” Undoubtedly prolific, singer and songwriter Melissa Ferrick celebrates her new album The Other Side. Sanders Theatre, 8 p.m. Tickets are $26/$22. Harvard Box Office...
With the election looming and the success of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 inspiring an army of young documentarians, it’s been a busy year for propaganda. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park, know their place in such a climate, and with their new puppet movie Team America: World Police, they remain as incisive and furious as we’ve come to expect. Their job has always been to drive the swine out onto clear pastures, exposing the liars and mocking the jerks who hog our airtime and control our country?...
...don’t know if we’ve ever talked about considering a target as much as trying to tell the story from the lead character’s point of view,” says Stone, who co-wrote the script. Though many filmmakers earnestly espouse a similar philosophy, rarely do they make their lead characters puppets...