A Michael Bay parody carried out fully by marionette puppets, Staff America: World Police has the trimmings of a ripped-from-the-headlines fashion satire. The film’s G.I. Joe–fashion counterterrorist group doesn’t simply combat random Islamic terrorists in a post-9/11 America; additionally they finally face off in opposition to North Korean chief Kim Jong Il and the Movie Actors Guild (the real-world Display Actors Guild, renamed to accommodate a slur/pun).
Make no mistake, Staff America is humorous, even 20 years later. However a long time on, when George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Karl Rove have given solution to Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and Steve Bannon, Parker and Stone’s humorousness has come to crystallize the apathetic humor that also invitations individuals to snicker whereas the world burns—after which mock anybody who tries to vary it.
Laughing at Nothing
“See, there’s three sorts of individuals,” says a drunk man on the finish of Staff America: World Police’s second act. What follows is a profane rant about genitals and their respective sexual prospects, put within the bluntest, should specific phrases attainable.
These kinds of speeches are widespread to the work of Parker and Stone, who made Staff America with co-writer and frequent collaborator Pam Brady. South Park turned a success with its cursing youngsters, it’s defiantly non-PC characterizations, and, after all, Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo. Nevertheless, Parker and Stone have all the time leaned extra towards predecessor The Simpsons than follower Household Man, utilizing blue humor to make a degree behind the snicker.
Staff America makes its level on the climax when hero Gary Johnston (Parker) repeats the drunk man’s rant. A profitable Broadway actor, Gary is recruited to the hyper-military Staff America to make use of his expertise to infiltrate an Islamic terrorist cell. Though, like most actors, he opposes Staff America’s violent methods, he joins up and learns about an awesome risk from Kim Jong Il.
On the finish of the film, Gary repeats the drunk man’s phrases to clarify the lesson he realized.
“We’re dicks! We’re reckless, conceited, silly dicks,” he declares. “And the Movie Actors Guild are pussies. And Kim Jong Il is an asshole.” He continues the analogy to justify Staff America’s actions by way of numerous types of sexual penetration. “I don’t know a lot on this loopy, loopy world, however I do know that in the event you don’t allow us to fuck this asshole, we’re going to have our dicks and our pussies all lined in shit.”
