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'Team America' unsettles Team Kim in Pyongyang
2005-02-09
The caricature of North Korea's "Dear Leader", Kim Jong-Il, in the film, "Team America: World Police," is striking a discordant note among North Korean officials, and probably their supreme leader himself, despite his well-known love for private viewings of foreign movies.
OK, we called it here first on Rantburg that Kinny was sulking because of Team America. Looks like it's true.
Word from Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, is that the North Korean embassy there is asking the government to ban the film, the creation of Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park fame. The Czech Foreign Ministry, however, said the North Koreans had been rebuffed in their effort to undermine the Czech Republic's post-Communist era freedom. The film shows marionettes attempting to stop Kim Jong-Il from destroying cities around the globe.
And not one Oscar nomination! It's a outrage!
A Czech newspaper, Lidove Noviny, reports that a North Korean diplomat complained that the film "harms the image of our country." He was even quoted as saying, "Such behavior is not part of our country's political culture."
Posted by:Steve

#15  Thanks BigEd. I thought Penn did some silly shit like that. He's just pissed because Stone/Parker said what most of us think, and deep down Penn knows it. The best part of the letter is when he signs off w/a p.s. about taking them to Fallujah like he's been in the war zone, lmao. What a typical pathetic self-absorbed holly wood cheese-dick ole Penny is.
Posted by: Chase Unineger3873 aka Jarhead   2005-02-09 9:25:51 PM  

#14  "Has Blix! Nice to see uh again."
"Kim do you have any WMDs?"
"Oh Has Blix you bussin my balls, stand over there..."
"AIIEEEEEE.......(blub blub blub)"
Posted by: Kim Jong Il   2005-02-09 6:00:05 PM  

#13  goddamit. thatn stiller long wate. :(
Posted by: muck4doo   2005-02-09 5:08:13 PM  

#12  Google is your friend: Team America: World Police will be released in the US on R1 DVD on the 5th April 2005.
Posted by: Steve   2005-02-09 4:55:11 PM  

#11  netflix has itn fer rent. cant find em releese date fer sale. ima so there fer this movee. derka derka
Posted by: muck4doo   2005-02-09 4:27:49 PM  

#10  Fuck yeah!
Posted by: someone   2005-02-09 4:22:37 PM  

#9  Loved it and can't wait to own it!
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2005-02-09 4:07:49 PM  

#8  Jarhead : You are correctimundo! Drudge posted it at the time...

Penn's Tantrum
Posted by: BigEd   2005-02-09 3:44:50 PM  

#7  It's already out on DVD in China :).
Posted by: gromky   2005-02-09 3:40:16 PM  

#6  Anyone know when Team America will be released on DVD / VHS?

I want to buy it before it gets banned for being 'politically Incorrect'.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2005-02-09 3:31:11 PM  

#5  I LMAO at that film. Pure genius. Especially when they clowned on the card carrying members of "F.A.G."

I think Sean Penn wrote Parker and Stone some whiney ass letter about their insensitivity, I'm sure they wiped their ass w/it.
Posted by: Jarhead   2005-02-09 3:29:30 PM  

#4   Czech newspaper, Lidove Noviny, reports that a North Korean diplomat complained that the film "harms the image of our country." He was even quoted as saying, "Such behavior is not part of our country's political culture."

Yes, those North Koreans whod love the film would suffer the same fate as poor Laci Peterson did at the hands of her evil "husband".

I'm So Lonely



TAKE THAT KIMMY

Posted by: BigEd   2005-02-09 2:56:51 PM  

#3  Any bets the North Korean *people* love it?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2005-02-09 2:48:39 PM  

#2  erase my link on pg 2
Posted by: Frank G   2005-02-09 2:37:27 PM  

#1  I almost peed my pants watching this movie. No question it was the top film of the year.
Posted by: Remoteman   2005-02-09 2:30:40 PM  

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