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Kim Jong Il, in marionette form, had a major role in 2004's "Team America: World Police."
Admit it: If you're a moviegoer, one of the indelible images you have of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, who died recently at age 69, is not really of him, but of his puppet version in 2004's "Team America: World Police." In the wake of the death, the film became a trending topic on Twitter.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone of "South Park" made "Team America," and Parker voiced Kim Jong Il. He's portrayed as a lonely insane dictator who leads a world terrorist plot and is later revealed to be an alien cockroach. Some would say not far off from reality.
The character has numerous great scenes, including one where his deadly black panthers (black house cats) are set loose on two of the film's puppet heroes. (They eventually change course and devour actors Sean Penn and Danny Glover.) Warning: Clip includes gruesome, if fake, puppet innards.
But the most memorable moment is probably when Kim Jong Il sings "I'm So Ronery," in which the lyrics mock his "R" for "L" accent. He sings the sad tune while wandering through his elaborate palace. At one point, he pauses by his tank of man-eating sharks, who swim past the briefcase-clutching skeleton of U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix.
"I work rearry hard and make up great prans, but nobody ristens, no one understands, seems like no one takes me serirousry, and so I'm ronery," he sings. (Warning: Clip begins with one line of adult language.)
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Kim Jong-Il was apparently not a fan of his depiction: #mce_temp_url#
Team America's depiction of Kim Jong Il is second to none! The best....
Good riddance!
I'd heard he was actually quite proud to have been featured in a Western movie.
The puppet porn scene in this movie was the best porn scene ever bar none.
I'm so ronery, oh so ronery.
Ahhh, sadly the world is that much more ronery now that Kim Jong-Il is gone.
Thanks Trey and Matt for making the world just a wee bit more bearable with your repeated pokes in its collective eye!
Yeah - I forgot about the panther scene - one of the best of the films. Oh, the best of the Il coverage : The Onion "Those we lost in 2011". Succinct and beautiful tribute...
Will the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences include Kim Jong Il in it's annual tribute, or will he be snubbed ?
Don't you mean "anal tribute???"..........................
Hmmm, 2011 has not been a good year for despots, dictators, and despicables.
Who really gives a Sh it!You prop this Monster up like he was some kind of a HERO OR CELEBRATY!
WHAT THE HELL?
HE's friggen DEAD now let it go already.Instead of writing about this piece of sh it why the hell don't you idiots write about the Starving People in that country and about the next WHACKO READY TO TAKE OVER.
GEEEEEEEESUS!
what do you expect??? It's PMSNBC. They love dictators and Socialists. This is the sanem network that call our own leaders stupid. THis "network" is nothing more than a propaganda wing for socialists and communists. WHo will they prop up next??? Putin (or POO-tin)? ACK-ma-dinner-jod? Once Obummer's gone, who will they *ss-kiss?
My God, get a sense of humor. Did you actually ever see the movie that the article is referring to? Team America mocked Kim Jong Il mercilessly, I'm sure he would have been outraged by it.
"He's portrayed as a lonely insane dictator who leads a world terrorist plot and is later revealed to be an alien cockroach."
Does that sound like a heroic portrayal to you? You wingnuts are almost as crazy as he was.
If you have health insurance, check to see if you can get a 'sense of humor" or 'comprehension' transplant. Wow, talk about something going over a poster's head. So raughing!
Geez, overreact much? The story notes an odd curiosity relating to the leader of an entire country on the occasion of his death. You don't have to like the SOB, but the international community had to take him seriously due to N. Korea's pursuit (and possible possession of) nuclear weapons.
That doesn't mean he's being treated as a celebrity or a hero, but he was a man you ignored at your peril.
Dick Cheney, is that you?
Wow! You must be a lot of fun to live with! Totally missed the point, eh!?!? His death is relevant to figuring out what's next in crazy North Korea. And a little satire to poke fun at him. You might want to try using a dictionary or learning how to spell. Perhaps you'll just turn yourself into an isolated third-world egomaniacal dictator since YOU HAVE NO SENSE OF HUMOR. Get a life.
1 word gloria - valium
So you're really angry, uneducated ("celebraty"???) and have serious comprehension problems... ummm... how is it we haven't seen you in the republican debates?
The posts by gloria and rvalo in this thread prove people don't read anything, particularly the article they want to post about ;)
ROR
good one dave
Two words nosferato SMARTEN UP!
As for the rest of you ANYTHING ABOUT THAT PIG is Disgusting!
I read the dam article and I still think it's disgusting.Anything portraying that pig is disgusting!
Gloria,
You need to get laid more often. Such self-repression is not healthy.
Gloria is clueless. clearly she has never seen the movie, probably because her church told her not too because it was full of sin. maybe she needs someone to perform the puppet sex scene with her...the unrated one. ;)
Really AlexG!Hey JonSmith what church is that?
Tsk Tsk I can see where your minds are, and it ain't in church!
Thanks for the laugh!
Good Riddance - psychopath... sociopath. Sick DICK-tator
Still one of my favorite movies of all time. Sadly, (and even though it might truly offend some of them), I doubt the North Koreans were even allowed to know of this film's existence.
"You're bustin' my balls, Hans Brix!" -- Classic.
This is exactly how he deserves to be remembered.
Best headline of the day.
You are worthress, Arec Barrwin!
ROR
...killing me...
"freedom aint free...it cost folks like you and me"
america fvck yea
FAKE puppet innards? I'm outraged.
you may be 'outraged' but those puppets are dead.
dirka dirka
Oh my freakin' god - too funny. I SO forgot about Dirka Dirka.....
"Do something Aric Barwin!"
Doesn't seem right he's remembered as making people laugh. But since he has to be dead to be remembered, it works.
It is clever to stereotype Koreans as not being able to prounounce "r's" and "l's". But you have the wrong country. Japanese have difficulty with such sounds because the is no differentiation in the phonetics of their langauge.
thanks for the clarification bluce.....
Considering Trey married a Japanese lady and is fluent in the language, he may be aware of that. Makes it funnier ;)
It's more of a generalized Asian stereotype. Lethal Weapon 4 caught some flak at the time over the "flied lice" joke. I have a Vietnamese coworker who was talking about her niece and a door. After a few very confused minutes I worked out she meant 'doll'. Oddly, 'dollhouse' wasn't a problem when I ran through a few trial words with her. "Say 'dollhouse'." "Dollhouse." "Good, now say 'Barbie doll'." "Barbie door." *facepalm*
team america is one of the most underrated comedies.
No, not even close. MANY of us choose to pass on that sort of..."humor"...in favor of keeping our brain cells intact.
you're obviously far superior to the rest of us. congratulations.
and that far superior brain has served you well...you obviously saw the headline and refrained from clicking so you wouldn't waste time on an article that was about a movie you didn't see and think isn't humorous. Wait...oh...yes you did click...and post...guess you lost those brain cells some other way then.
only a real genius skips out on a movie only to spend the time to read an article about said movie and then goes on to post on the article, criticizing the movie he didn't see in the attempt to make himself seem more intelligent.
"Pass" on that type of humor...? More likely you just don't "understand" it.
Their humor can be irreverent, but it's also quite intelligent. But it takes intelligence to understand that so that's likely why you "chose" not to watch it.
Team America was the best movie that hardly anyone ever saw. Sorry, but I'm sure Kim Jong or someone close to him saw this and had to laugh. What I would have done to been a fly on that wall!!! Glad the dick is dead. Let hope is son follows suite, quickly.
Hardly anyone....?
Wasn't it Team America that dethroned the juggernaut that was The Titanic...?
I'm so ronery...
Love that Movie. Wouldn't have know who he was if it wasn't for it. Can't forget Famous Actors Guild or F.A.G
Hans Bwrix, oh nooo!!
@ janman
If you you like that acronym, check out the N.A.M.B.L.A. acronym these guys used in South Park!
Of course you mean the North American Marlon Brando Look Alikes (NAMBLA). I am the New Mexico Chapter president. We always have a tough time booking meeting spaces. And all these weird guys that look nothing like Marlon Brando show up. Who are these people? Don't they have any respect for the work of one of our most celebrated actors? They seem so ronery...
I turned on that episode about halfway through, and this is how my thoughts went:
Ha - that guy looks like Marlon Brando.
Hmm - that guy looks like Marlon Brando, too. And so does that one, and... What is this, a roomful of Marlon Brando lookalikes?
One of the best, most politically and socially in-depth movies of its day. Not to mention totally hilarious. Those who missed it did so at their own loss.
I saw it when it first came out, but I'd forgotten all about it until this article. Looks like another movie to put on my Netflix queue... and then bump it right to the top.
Kim Jong Il dead, fu*k yeah!
Good riddance to: RUBBISH! <> He was just one INSANe, liddle, ... NINJA-COM-POOP anyway, as the whole world knows.
The ONLY people he had BUFFALOWED wuz our "BIG BRO" & ALL of our Illustrious LEADERs, here in Meximerica. EVERYONE else, knew what kind of a little "Creep" & jerkwater he really was.
i'm so ronrey, oh so ronrey....