Team America: World Police
Team America: World Police is a 2004 puppetry comedy film directed by Trey Parker, who co-wrote the film with Matt Stone and Pam Brady. Parker and Stone also star alongside Kristen Miller, Masasa Moyo, Daran Norris, Phil Hendrie, Maurice LaMarche, Jeremy Shada, and Fred Tatasciore. A satire of action film archetypes, American militarism, and the foreign policy of the United States, the film follows the titular international counterterrorism force, who recruit a Broadway actor to assist in saving the world from Kim Jong Il and his coalition of Islamic terrorists and liberal Hollywood actors.
Theatrical release poster
Creators Trey Parker (left) and Matt Stone (right) were exhausted with production on Team America and its scheduling extremes.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il was parodied in the film, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea asked the Czech Republic to ban it.
Randolph Severn "Trey" Parker III is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director, and musician. He is best known for co-creating South Park and The Book of Mormon (2011) with his creative partner Matt Stone. Parker was interested in film and music as a child and at high school and attended the University of Colorado Boulder, where he met Stone. The two collaborated on various short films and co-starred in Parker’s feature-length musical Cannibal! The Musical (1993).
Parker at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con International
Parker (left) and Matt Stone (right) continue to do most of the writing, directing and voice acting on South Park.
Parker at a ceremony for Penn & Teller to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2013
Parker (left) and Stone (right) at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2016