Trey Parker en Matt Stone, de mannen achter televisieserie South Park, werken momenteel aan Team America: World Police, een animatiefilm in de stijl van de oude Thunderbirds; met echte poppen dus. De film is een parodie op de Amerikaanse actiefilms van tegenwoordig, en speelt in op onderwerpen als terrorisme en 'Homeland Security', en de rol van de VS daarin.

Ain't It Cool News bracht een bezoek aan de set van de film.


[eng]"Its hard to do justice to the impact it has when you walk in on a 1/3 scale reproduction of the Panama Canal, complete with working boats and a town on both sides, filled with people going about their daily lives, never suspecting that theyre about to be destroyed by a Weapon Of Mass Destruction. Make that puppets, though, instead of people. Lots and lots of puppets. At times, there are as many as 40 puppeteers working from specially rigged scaffolds suspended above the miniature sets, as well as more puppeteers working the facial controls via remote control...

Then there's the films main bad guy, Kim Jong Il, the power-mad dictator...various sections of Kim Jong Ils palace were still standing, but I didnt get to see his bedroom where he evidently belts out his melancholy musical number, "I'm Ronery". This may not be a full-blown musical a la SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT, but Treys written several songs including the theme Team America! Fuck Yeah! and an Aerosmith-style power ballad that plays during the puppet sex scene. Yep. A graphic puppet sex scene".[/eng]

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