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Home : TV & Film : 7 Reasons Why A Team America 2 Sequel Will Never Get Made

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7 Reasons Why A Team America 2 Sequel Will Never Get Made

Sorry Team America fans. Our chances of a sequel are not good. Here are all the reasons why Team America 2 will never get made.

September 4, 2018 by Joe Michaels
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The 2004 film, Team America: World Police by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, is both offensive and hilarious. Over the years, the film has generated a very strong cult following. But if you’re hoping for a Team America 2 sequel, I have some bad news. It’s probably never going to happen. Here are all the reasons why Team America 2 will never, ever, get made.

Puppets Are Hard To Work With

Trey Parker and Matt Stone do not like working with puppets. The duo had to rewrite the script several times because they couldn’t make the puppets work in their scenes. Stone nicknamed their animation technique “supercrappymation” because the marionettes featured in Team America have such limited movement.

“I don’t know why we thought doing a puppet movie would be fun because it was terrible,” Stone continued. “It was really hard because they can’t do anything at all.”

Stone isn’t alone in his dislike for marionettes. Trey Parker also feels that working with puppets is limiting. In a 2004 MovieWeb interview, Parker said: “We’re in, so we have to finish this f–ing thing, but I hate it. I do. I hate it.”

White House Objections

In 2004, George W. Bush was President Of The United States. According to an anonymous “White House official” that spoke to Matt Drudge from The Drudge Report, President Bush was horrified by Team America. His administration felt that Team America was trivializing the War on Terror.

However, not every US President has felt the same way about Team America. President Donald Trump‘s foreign policy strategy may be partially inspired by Team America’s theme song “America, F— Yeah!”. “The president believes that we’re America, and people can take it or leave it,” said Thomas Wright, Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution.

The Team America Budget: An Expensive Production For A Puppet Movie

Initially, some of the executives at Paramount Pictures loved the idea of a “puppet” movie. Everyone assumed that a puppet film would be a low-budget project. It wasn’t. Between the scale, animatronics, and elaborate sets, Team America cost $32 million to make. It’s the most expensive puppet movie ever made. Despite its production costs, the film was still profitable and made $50 million worldwide. Even so, executives at Paramount may not have an appetite for another big-budget R-rated puppet movie, including a Team America 2.

Struggle With The MPAA

According to Matt Stone, the infamous puppet sex scene in Team America: World Police was meant to distract the MPAA from the rest of the movie, so they’d only focus on cutting down that specific scene. It was edited down nine different times to get an R rating, but the uncut version is available in the unrated version of the film.

NERD NOTE: Even though Team America almost earned a NC-17 rating in the United States, the film didn’t encounter much backlash elsewhere in the world. In fact, Team America was promoted as a “kids and family” movie in Europe.

Celebrity Protests

Team America pokes fun at a collection of celebrities including Alec Baldwin, Tim Robbins, Helen Hunt, Michael Moore, Liv Tyler, Martin Sheen, Susan Sarandon, Janene Garoppolo, Matt Damon, Samuel Jackson, George Clooney, and Sean Penn among others.

Matt Damon wasn’t very happy about his puppet and persona in Team America. But not directly angry at Matt Stone and Trey Parker.

Sean Penn, on the other hand, was extremely offended by the film. He wrote an angry letter to Parker and Stone that closed with the line “a sincere fuck you, Sean Penn.”

Sean Penn’s Letter to Parker and Stone

To Trey Parker and Matt Stone,

I remember a cordial hello when you guys were beginning to be famous guys around Hollywood at some party. I remember several times getting a few giggles out of your humor. And I remember not being bothered as you traded on my name among others to appear witty, above it all, and likable to your crowd. I never mind being of service, in satire and silliness.

I do mind when anybody who doesn’t have a child, doesn’t have a child at war, or isn’t or won’t be in harm’s way themselves, is encouraging that there’s “no shame in not voting” “if you don’t know what you’re talking about” (Mr. Stone) without mentioning the shame of not knowing what your (sic) talking about, and encouraging people to know. You guys are talented young guys but alas, primarily young guys.

It’s all well to joke about me or whomever you choose. Not so well, to encourage irresponsibility that will ultimately lead to the disembowelment, mutilation, exploitation, and death of innocent people throughout the world. The vote matters to them. No one’s ignorance, including a couple of hip cross-dressers, is an excuse.

All best, and a sincere fuck you,

Sean Penn

P.S. Take this as a personal invitation from me to you (you can ask Dennis Miller along for the ride as well) to escort you on a trip, which I took last Christmas. We’ll fly to Amman, Jordan, and I’ll ride with you in a (?) 12 hours through the Sunni Triangle into Fallujah and Baghdad, and I’ll show you around. When we return, make all the fun you want.

The original film had the element of surprise. Many of the celebrities in Team America: World Police didn’t know they were portrayed in the movie before it was too late. But a lot of angry actors calling their movie studios to complain about a Team America 2 sequel will be tough for a production team to navigate.

Too Much Time Together

In addition to South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone have collaborated on several films including Cannibal! The Musical (1993), Orgazmo (1997), BASEketball (1998), South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999), Team America: World Police (2004), and the Broadway show The Book of Mormon (2011).

But after Team America, Matt Stone has publicly said that he will never make another film with Trey Parker again. Not because they don’t like each other. They do. But the two already work long hours together on the TV show, South Park. Adding films to their already full schedule forces them into 16-hour workdays, seven days a week. Stone describes the experience of making Team America as the “lowest point in his life” and said, “I never want to see a puppet again.”

“The Interview” Movie & North Korea

North Korea doesn’t like being criticized. The release of the 2014 Seth Rogan and James Franco film, The Interview, didn’t go according to plan. North Korea was very unhappy with the film and its storyline about the assassination of Kim Jong-Il. As a result, the rogue nation made multiple threats against Columbia Pictures, a subsidiary of Sony Pictures. The film was edited to make it more acceptable to North Korea, but a theatrical release was still planned.

Days before the release of The Interview, Sony Pictures was cyber-attacked by a hacker group with North Korean ties called the “Guardians of Peace.” Sony’s entire system was hacked, and both films and embarrassing emails were leaked. The embarrassing scandal forced Sony only to release The Interview online. North Korea denied any involvement in the hack.

A Team America: World Police 2 sequel that references North Korea would likely prompt a similar response. It’s doubtful that any movie studio would be willing to take on North Korea again.

Reasons Why A Team America Sequel Will Never Happen

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As much as Trey Parker and Matt Stone fans want to see a Team America sequel, it’s doubtful that a Team America 2 film will ever happen.

Not involving North Korea in the storyline would help reduce the geopolitical risk, but at the end of the day, working with puppets is annoying and it’s just too much work for Parker and Stone while they are still producing South Park.

How many Team America movies are there? One. How many will there ever be? One. Sorry kids, a Team America 2 sequel will never get made. Let’s just be happy with the one great puppet movie about America that we did get.

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  1. Richard

    July 8, 2020 at 5:23 PM

    That comment is funnier than the film itself..

  2. SarahKentucky

    April 20, 2020 at 2:11 AM

    The Left controls us like marionette puppets, that’s why TA2 will never be made. F YOU SEAN PENN. I’d to send you off to North Korea, you pompous hypocrite.

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