Puppet Regime: The Team America World Police Sing-Along

If you can’t wait for tomorrow’s fireworks to start celebrating this great nation of ours; or if you love your country, but hate fireworks; or heck, maybe you like fireworks, but only when you’re the one doing the lighting (preferably in the parking lot of an abandoned gas station out on some farm road), you can join others just like yourself at Alamo Ritz tonight for the Team America: World Police sing-along.

In honor of this great country’s 232nd Independence Day celebration, the patriotic folks down at the Alamo are offering a whole other way to remember what makes this country great. Embracing that whole “freedom of expression” thing, “South Park” Auteurs Trey Parker and Matt Stone made this Michael Bay action movie/musical send-up starring “Thunderbirds”-style marionettes as a damn-the-consequences-just-get-the-terrorists action force whose job is to…well, you get it. They’re the world police. Satirizing the political climate of the time, and featuring a puppet Kim Jong-Il, Sean Penn, Michael Moore (just to name a few), this film puts laughs in all the inappropriate places.

Did we mention it’s a musical? It is a sing-along, after all. Songs such as Kim Jong Il’s “I’m so Ronery” (that’s ‘lonely’ in a parody of Korean mispronunciation) and “Derka Derk (Terrorist Theme)” might keep you from coming off as the most sensitive person in the world, but they’ll probably make you laugh, even as you shake your head. That’s what those South Park guys do. If there’s any subject you’ve ever thought might be too offensive to talk about, expect at least a joke, and maybe a song about it.

But we don’t need to tell you all of this, do we? Chances are if you’ve read this far, this is your kind of movie, and you’ve already seen it anyway. So buy your tickets soon (the late show is already sold out, but there should still be tickets to the 7pm), and start warming up those vocal cords, cause the guy singing along to “Everyone has AIDS” won’t want to be the only person shouting that one out.