I somehow convinced my dad to watch this film a few weeks ago by just randomly recommending it. He’s in his 70’s so has a very specific old person sense of humour. When I asked him the next day if he enjoyed it he said he had tears streaming down his face as it was “the funniest shit” he’d ever seen in his life.

"He's the best martial artist Detroit has to offer" was a line waaaay ahead of its time lol.

“He died of Aiiiiids!” That line never stops being funny.

"It's puppetry? Ooohhh no" XD "How hard was this to produce?" Matt and trey: ide rather die than do this kind of thing again

Matt Stone and Trey Parker are just comedic geniuses.

This movie is still one of the funniest experiences in theaters I ever had. People who haven't reacted to this movie don't know what they're missing

I saw this in the cinema back in the day. I have never seen a cinema laugh anywhere near as much - people screaming with laughter, tears running down their face, gasping for breath. It was completely contagious.

"I'm so Ronery" is still one of my favorite parts of the movie. Loved watching your reactions, this is still comic gold almost 20 years later.

You had me at dicks fuck assholes" is still the best line 😂

What I love most about this movie is that its a one and done. No sequels needed 👌

Matt and Trey submitted the song “I’m so ronery” for Best Song Academy Award consideration when this movie came out.

Matt and Trey have said that filming this was the worst period in their lives if that helps in understanding how difficult it was. There were nearly 300 individual marionettes and around 1000 costumes. The film had to be constantly rewritten to accommodate the limited movement of the marionettes. Since they were all used to a different degree the batteries that controlled the facial movement would die at different times with no warning so that would often ruin takes and they got in it with the MPAA who kept trying to give the film an NC-17 rating. They couldn't even screen the film for review even by the producers because it was still being shot and scored right up till it's release in cinemas so critics were just given a 20 minute sizzle reel of whatever footage they had ready to go. I'm honestly amazed they even wanted to keep doing South Park after that. During the final season of Stargate SG-1 there's a segment in the 200th episode where they use the same company that made the marionettes for Team America and do a comedic recreation of an early scene from the first episode. It's genius. Even for that small segment it took quite awhile to film.

My parents took me to the movie theater in 2004 when this came out ... I was born in 97 so I was about 7 years old back then 🤣 They both had no idea what the movie was they just figured it was fine for kids since the characters are puppets, apparently my dad got a few looks of disagreement and made us leave at the puke scene. Overall awesome memory even if I don't remember it that well.

Bravo! While other reactors are watching Independence Day, you guys did the true all American movie! Fuck yeah!

This is one of those few comedies where not only do most of the jokes land but just as your still recovering from one joke another banger gets you laughing twice as much. 🤣

Fun fact: Bill Pope was the director of photography of the Matrix trilogy. He agreed to do this movie, to the surprise of Trey and Matt, because he was sick and tired of filming with green screen. This project had zero green screen; everything was in camera. He was thrilled he had the opportunity to film actual real-life stuff for a change.

I forgot how absolutely hilarious this film is. I was crying.

The wheeze laugh 😂 Loved when the Mrs. did the puppet movements 😁

I literally cried the first time I watched this movie. To say it is hysterical is an understatement. Look, if your abs/belly hurts the next day, it was funny.

The whole marionette thing was Matt & Trey paying homage to a number of British kid's shows from the 60's, namely Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet & Stingray. All of which had equally hilarious puppeteering and awkward use of real people in shots. Another fun fact, according to Matt & Trey Alec Baldwin approached them asking if he could play himself in the film and they told him no because "We thought we could play him better"

3:45 - One of the best choreographed fight scenes ever put to film.

This movie is offensive on so many levels, and that is exactly what makes it amazing and hysterical!!!

They actually hired amazing puppeteers for this, Trey and Matt felt pretty bad when they told them to make all of the movements and walking more and more awkward.

That hand to hand combat part at the beginning gets me rolling every single time

'shhhhhhh, it's not claymation" I spat my beer out 🤣

Not the movie reaction I was expecting....but the reaction I never knew I needed 😂

One of the Funniest movies ever. I've never laughed so hard in the cinema before. I wish there was a sequel, but Trey and Matt found it such a difficult movie to shoot. I think in the end it was worth it being so unbelievably funny.

I'm still upset that the fight choreography in this film was snubbed at the Oscars. So underrated.

The Matt Damon joke wasn't in the original story, but when Matt and Trey saw just how derpy the puppet looked they just couldn't resist. Also about the walking, they actually had to get the puppeteers to intentionally make the walking more clumsy.

It was apparently an absolutely nightmare making this movie. The puppeteers were actually TOO good so they were told to make it look worse cause it’s funnier that way. Not to mention the puppeteers basically had no direction and were told to just wing it on really complicated movements

This movie has a special place as the last one I saw in theaters with my friend before he passed.

18 years later this move is still funny as all hell.

You really learn a lot about a person from how they react to this movie... 🤣 Happy 4th of July!

Lots of parents thought this was for kids when it first came out, Not my Dad tho, he intentionally showed me this knowing fully what it was.

Matt Stone and Trey Parker are satirical geniuses.

An instant CLASSIC!!! One of my ALL-TIME favorite comedies.

When they were little I showed the "international sign for distress" to my kids. We used it in various situations such as skiing. Although I occasionally wondered if that caused other parents to think we'd let them watch the whole movie (we didn't).

George Clooney is actually a South Park fan and he's done voice work for them. You would never recognize him though, since they make him do sounds like dog barks lol.

29:04 The crazy thing is, that head shot is far more realistic than any horror movie ever made.

"It was exactly what I thought it would be" Claymation? 🤣

Amongst many other things this film is a love letter to the work (some would say art) of Mr Gerry Anderson, a true legend.

2004 was a brutal year for Matt and Trey, because on top of South Park they also had to make a difficult puppet movie.

I literally just got out of watching Thor: Love and Thunder and when Matt came on screen I said “Matt Daaamon.”

The music while Gary pukes is so damn epic. I love how it gets loud and intense then chills out while he catches his breath only to get epic again. Pure brilliance👌

I read somewhere that the puppet scene at the beginning was their to troll a film executive who thought that puppets would look cheap. His colleagues gave them the money to make it anyway. So they made the first few seconds of the film look as awful as possible to make him freak Out!

21:27 - the best “do you have a sense of humor test” out there😂😂😂😂🤦🏻‍♂️

"Those weren't blanks" is the most underrated part of this whole video.

Lol 23:40 iv never seen him laugh that hard....that's how we laugh wen u get scared watching horror movies lol 😆 😂 😅 🤣 ur reactions are priceless....

Haven't seen Mrs. Movie smile and laugh this much since Naked Gun! This was fun!

Gonna watch this now, just wanted to say before hand that you folks keep doing what you do, it's very much appreciated. Cheers from Scotland, Happy 4th of July and best wishes to you and all Americans 🍻❤

This movie is also an homage to the Gerry Anderson television shows of the late 1960s, such as Captain Scarlett and The Thunderbirds, which main characters were marionettes. I loved both shows as a kid and Team America is one of those movies I watch once a year. It's a total scream.

Watched this as a kid here in Finland and this has been one of my all time favorite movies. Some things simply cannot be forgotten from this movie.

Such a great movie! Trey and Matt always put out hilarious stuff.

The off center finger to the lips as foreshadowing was an unexpected and hilarious touch.

This movie is without question the most accurate and true depiction and representation of the US military government and culture 💯✅😂 and I was Lucky enough to see this in theaters when it came out 🤣

25:26 "That sound. . . Is from Frozen." She says with the tone of having horrific flashbacks, amd I die laughing.

This is my favorite Matt Damon performance.

The British TV shows this is based on were my childhood. You should get yourselves some 'Thunderbirds' 'Captain Scarlet' and 'Stingray' for your youngsters. Joe 90 was also a good un.

I love the part where they are standing in the wreckage that was Paris and they are saying “You’re welcome” Lol.

3:45 was one of the funniest things I'd ever seen. The whole theater was laughing so hard at it. I'd forgotten how funny this movie was. 17:12 Puppet Sex ! 23:03 I've been that sick before :D

You had me in tears at the puke scene... thank you... brightened my morning :)

When the movie came out, I bought the unrated version, not realizing there was a difference. Oops. Mom was never the same again.

That Kellyanne Conway hair flip at 3:30…nailed it.

Right off the bat she asked how hard was it to produce. Apparently the making of this film was excruciatingly hard. Many of the puppeteers were some of the best in the world and knew they wouldnt get an opportunity very often to have a film show off their skill.

A non-stop laughing experience. This is a great movie. Brings back the British TV shows Thunderbird, Captain scarlett , from the 1960's super maranation.

Mrs Movies laugh is contagious! 🤣 This movie is so funny! And Mr Movie is right, the unrated version is so hilarious and the sex scene is hilarious.

"everything is okay everybody, we stopped the terrorists" is still the funniest line in a movie Ive seen

i watched this masterpiece when i was like 5 with my grandma and didn’t understand how funny it was

Trey and Matt are comedic geniuses. Fun to watch this and pick out all the real world items used as props like the basket full of "Goldfish" crackers on a native's head.

The puking scene reaction was hilarious :)

The movie craftmanship is really impressive. I had the same reaction watching for the first time, "how did they even do this" aways crossed my mind.

I remember laughing uncontrollably at "I'M SO RONRY" in the theater..

Trivia: Back when the movie was in production Parker & Stone did a joke on the movie executives. They showed the opening scene w the cheesy puppet and crudely drawn background. They were worried until the scene continued and showed the real puppets and scenery. Haha

Absolute hilarious movie. Hadn't seen it in years so was great to watch it again with you guys

'Those weren't blanks!'. Dam, that was an unappreciated line, lol

Seeing movies like this, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America and Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters in the movie theater in front of a live audience really hits differently. Where everyone around you is like "I don't know what the HELL i'm watching, but the 40% of us left that didn't walk out in the first 15 minutes are just having the best time" It's like.... if you're in a theater and you're one of the ones who stay around while most of the people are just walking out of the movie, you look around at the people left and you just think "These are my kinda people. They get me."

Give Alec Baldwin & Matt Damon full credit. According to them, at least, the only thing they were mad about is that nobody asked them to provide their own voices--they said they'd have been happy to.

I literally cried laughing watching this in the theater when it came out

I find it really funny that the America, Fuck Yeah (Bummer remix) has actually become a real thing movies and movie trailers do now.

They nail Garofalo! She was all over the news back then and that's EXACTLY what she would do! I was screaming at my TV about it long before this movie came out

There’s a feature on the disc of the making of this movie. Matt and Trey were miserable and wish they never thought of the puppet idea. It’s a throwback to the Thunderbirds show from way back. There are also interviews with them on talk shows talking about how they’ll never make a puppet movie again 🤣 Happy 4th of July guys!

The finest example of the puppeteers craft ever conceived. The amount of skill and imagination that went into this is nothing less than staggering. Parker and Stone should have gotten a Special Oscar for this.

Still one of my favourite movies of all time. Rumour has it we're finally getting a sequel.

there is a behind the scenes or making of on the DVD for this. they talk about the troubles they had filming it, mostly that it looked too good. the puppeteers they hired were really good and some of the movements were just too good, so Matt and Trey had them ugly it up. they also thickened the strings so they were more visible, but then they went and had Kim Jong's glasses specially made, the lenses are made like real eye glasses rather than just plain flat glass. also, Trey wasn't getting what he wanted out of the sex scene so he just grabbed them by hand and just ducked out of the shot and did most of that himself. all of the foreign cities are parodies of themselves, like all the attractions from the Paris scene surrounding the Eifel Tower rather than spread around the city more. and the shacks in North Korea are made from Chinese takeout cartons.

Kim: "I'm so....roneriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii" Mrs: " I'm laughing but I need to stop." Kim: "Seems like nobrody take me shrioshriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii" Mrs: "Fuck it. I tried."

Kim Jong's "I'm So Ronery" kills me every time.

The cockroach nod to "Men In Black" classic and definitely cracked a rib for the Film Actors Guild which was 💯 % on point.

The actors who were satirized in this movie reacted in various different ways. At the extreme ends of the spectrum, Sean Penn was ultra-butthurt and threw a huge tantrum about it, and Alec Baldwin loved the idea and offered to voice his character in the movie, an offer Matt and Trey turned down.

-This film is in a three-way tie for first place, in my ranking of the Greatest Comedies Of All Time. (The other two are: Airplane! and Monty Python and the Holy Grail.). An EXCELLENT choice for July 4th! -I have the unrated version. It was interesting to notice a few differences between that version, and the version you watched. There were a couple of points where the audio in the two versions is different. (Unless you intentionally dubbed different music in that section of your reaction). For instance, in the unrated version, during the puppet sex, Gary/Trey Parker sings, “Only A Woman” (worth listening to - it fits the scene better than the more generic music I heard during this screening.). -By the way, Trey and Matt intentionally filmed more graphic, more repulsive acts of puppet sex for the film. I believe this was a deliberate strategy on their part: They could screen the NC-17 version for the MPAA on round one, then remove the most offensive/repulsive puppet sex graphic shots, then go back for a second round with the MPAA, with a big studio (Paramount) behind them, making the case, "Hey - they really did remove the NC-17 stuff from this new cut of the film - so you can recognize that and help us out by giving us the 'R' rating that it should get." (I'm not absolutely sure of this point, but I strongly suspect that this was part of their approach.) -I believe that there’s a cameo of George W. Bush and Laura Bush in the film (the film was released in 2004) - puppets that look like them, appear briefly as part of the audience in Gary’s play, at the beginning. -The closing credits let you hear the full version of “America, Fuck Yeah.” which continues the film’s theme of criticizing things about America that really do deserve criticism: In case you missed it: “…McDonald’s fuck yeah! Wal-Mart fuck yeah! The Gap fuck yeah! Baseball fuck yeah! NFL, fuck yeah! Rock ’n’Roll fuck yeah! The Internet fuck yeah! Slavery fuck yeah! ……” So the song, while also hilarious, criticizes the mindless jingoism and wild ignorance that huge numbers of the American public have about their own country. (Yes, Slavery WAS an important part of America… but why would anyone include that, with an affirming, “Fuck yeah!” with all the other positives of modern American life - unless you were going for the brain-dead view of: “If it is or was present in America, it MUST be good, BECAUSE it was or is part of America!” ) This is one of hundreds of things in the film that go by so fast that you’re likely to miss them, unless you slow down to appreciate them.

Those of us in the UK who grew up with Thunderbirds, we looked at that sex scene and thought, those are the Lady Penelope scenes we always wanted to see. "That's it, Parker, put the Rolls in the garage." "Righty-ho, m'Lady. Is that halright?" "Oh that's excellent, Parker. Jeff, come over here - you know there's room for two in my garage."

Every time I see this movie I can't help but think of the old 60's British tv series "ThunderBirds" ! The original puppet super agent force. LOL

Two bits. First, this movie was essentially one big act of revenge on the MPAA. Apparently Parker and Stone were so frustrated by the rating process for South Park the Movie. During one of the discussions for South Park, some one noted that R and X rated cartoons were not unheard of (famously Fritz the Cat and Wizards) and argued "it's not like they're doing this with puppets..." Thus planting the seed. The MPAA insinuated that the rating would be different it were done with puppets, challenge accepted. Parker and Stone had talked about doing a stop motion film for a while anyways. Second, the original idea was to do a shot for shot remake of The Day After Tomorrow . They got an early copy of the script and thought the movie was ridiculous, so they wanted to release a puppet version within weeks of the release of the real film. Legal apparently shut that down. Okay two more. The "trees" in the Panama scene are cannabis plants. Also, several European markets apparently failed to screen the film. They saw that it was a puppet movie made by two Americans who made cartoons, and judged the film must surely be suitable for children. They rated the movie as such, never having watched the actual movie.

Saw this in theaters as a 14 year old with a couple friends. Loved the movie but I remember the ushers not letting us back into the theater after we went to get our seats then left to buy snacks in the lobby. My friend's dad (who bought our tickets) was planning on doing some work on his laptop in the Starbucks next door but he ended up having to buy a ticket as well so we could watch the movie.

It's filmed in Supermarionation. A term coined by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. who created British T.V. series in the '60's like THUNDERBIRDS, JOE 90, STINGRAY, and FIREBALL XL5 all using these style puppets.

The camera knocking him over on the motorcycle gets me every damn time..

"Those weren't blanks" Took me a day and a second watch! 😂

Made me remember how much I absolutely loved this movie. I never laughed so hard in the movie theatre ever. Literally almost passed out, especially during the puking scene

Germany here: I died in the theater back in the days. Still a classic from my opinion and full of iconic lines! 😆 "Maaatt Daamoon" is still a thing for my friends and me! ^^

If we're talking about Team America, mention needs to be made about Super Adventure Team which is essentially the PG-13 version of Team America that was made about 6 years prior on MTV. You can find SAT on KZfaq, btw.

You both had me rolling 😂, thanks for another fun reaction and Happy 4th!