How out of touch is this guy?
The Washington Post's Hank Stuever has seen Trey Parker and Matt Stone's new film Team America, and completely missed the point:
...I am almost moved to salute Parker and Stone for their nuanced and careful takedown of American jingoism and the seemingly disastrous foreign policy that Team America stands for.There's an inside joke going on, all right, but Hank Stuever is the one missing out.Only that isn't quite how it played to an audience on Tuesday night... The biggest laughs came when "Team America" assaulted any and all concepts of ethnicity, or when the joke was on gays, Michael Moore or a vast left-wing idiocy.
The movie feels like an elaborate inside joke on the very Americans laughing hardest at its easiest gags, oblivious to the sly, allegorical digs at a USA brand of bravado. What I took as a lampoon of Bushworld seemed to be received, in the seats around me, as a triumph of Bushworld.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone are Republicans. How could this guy miss this?
Posted by Matt at October 15, 2004 6:37 PM
