Team America: World Police

South Park geniuses Trey Parker and Matt Stone offer up a timely political satire that takes aim at sanctimonious right-wing bloo-blobs and smug Hollywood liberals alike. (In other words, the duo hates the war in Iraq, but they also hate George Bush, Michael Moore, and John Kerry.) The fact that their film takes the form of a boffo, Bruckheimeresque blockbuster filmed entirely with wooden puppets (but not Melanie Griffith and Ben Affleck) is just icing on the cake. Think of this surreal cinematic offering as an attempt by the kings of potty humor to knock piety off its moral high ground. Or you could take them at their word when they call their finished project “A dumb [blankin’] puppet movie.”