Marionette action-comedy

Yesterday, over dinner, I was telling my friends about my strange marionette puppet dream. Of course they couldn’t stop joking about it. We made up whole scenarios about how everyone would look as a marionette and what would happen if we actually were marionettes. Who would be the puppeteers? Who would be pulling the strings? Would puppets just control puppets? Questions, questions, questions. It was actually quite funny to brainstorm about all the answers. When we answered one question, another one automatically arose. Fun, fun, fun.

While I was getting ready to leave, one of my friends handed me a DVD. According to him, it was the movie to watch before going to bed…..it would guarantee sweet dreams. I just put the DVD in bag and went home. It was still early so I decided to watch the DVD. Only a few minutes into this movie, I was up in stitches. Man, this guy had handed me a marionette puppet movie ….. very funny guy that friend, great sense of humour!

DVD: Team America – World Police (Uncensored and unrated) and this is what Amazon had to say about it:

'An elite U.S. counter-terrorism squad loses a member while decimating half of Paris in the reckless pursuit of Middle Eastern maniacs; a Broadway actor with a traumatic childhood secret is naturally hired to replace him. Oh--and they're all marionettes. South Park maestros Trey Parker and Matt Stone (along with co-writer Pam Brady) came up with this shameless satire of pea-brained Hollywood action flicks and even smaller-minded global politics, so don't expect subtlety or even a hint of good taste. Team America is soon on the trail of North Korea's evil Kim Jong Il, who treats us to a tender song about his loneliness before ensnaring Alec Baldwin and the rest of the oblivious Film Actors Guild (F.A.G. for short) in a plot to blow up every major city on the planet. Just as the mindless squad cheerfully demolishes everything in sight, so do director Parker and company. Throwing punches Left, Right, and in-between, the movie's politics leave no turn un-stoned; there's even time to bludgeon the musical Rent. It's offensive, irresponsible comic anarchy seemingly made by sniggering little boys. Painfully funny sniggering little boys.--Steve Wiecking’

Not exactly a movie I would rent or buy myself, but I really laughed my head off. I can’t help it; I love the South Park sense of humour. I went to bed feeling totally relaxed and did I dream about marionettes again?……..NOPE! I had a dream about raking autumn leaves! And that was just my subconscious mind telling me that it’s that time again, time to get the rake out of the shed and start raking.