Team America: World Police

Finally, a big-budget movie that delivers it all: action, adventure, comedy, and graphic puppet sex. Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Team America: World Police takes on any target it can crudely puppeteer, from terrorists to Hollywood's elite to Alec Baldwin, in a spoof that mocks the U.S. tendency to police the globe as it sees fit. In order to thwart a power-hungry dictator from brokering weapons of mass destruction, the superagents at Team America hire a Broadway actor to go undercover and infiltrate the operation for them. Along the way to freedom, the team blows up the Eiffel Tower, the Sphinx, and the Panama Canal, and uses enough foul-language to make the creators of South Park blush. In between action sequences, there are hysterical musical numbers—"America, Fuck Yeah," Kim Jong Il's "I'm So Ronery," "America, Fuck Yeah (Bummer Remix)"—and in the movie's few slow moments, the puppets' stiff movements will throw you right back on the laugh track. Aside from the dirty and outlandish laughs—and "Jesus titty-fucking Christ," are there a lot of those—the movie has a genuine backbone. Mocking politically unconscious Hollywood big wheels, power-mad foreign dictators, and, essentially, any jerk living in the United States, Team America delivers more than just a potty-mouthed puppet movie. But rest assured, that would've gotten five stars, too.