Sattre doesn't mean dumbed down constant explanation

Rating: 2/10 (31 July 2017)

Not so much deadpan but dead. Its nice that some directors in the US thought they should try and launch a "self deprecating movie of American society and foreign policy" - the caveat of course being that the actors and directors are not including themselves as subjects of deprecation. I suspect the target audience for this film is the kind who might vote for the kind of president who replaced Barrack Obama, except they're probably the least likely to watch anything they think might be critical of their perceived sense of righteousness. With this in mind, the film overly and excessively labors the point, so much so that it forgets it's satirical intentions, insulting the intelligence of anybody watching it who might already be aware of the foolishness of US foreign policy not just since the war in Afghanistan, but for the past 70 years at least (probably not the place to go into it) catch 22 is a far better place to start. As Winston Churchill himself once said "you can count on Americans doing the right thing... Having exhausted every other possibility first". The icing on the cake was in the press scene in Germany, where it seems to need to spell out the point several times that it is almost ridiculing the viewer - my partner and I were screaming yes we know... we don't need to be reminded constantly. Team America with it's crude simplistic style looks like a work of genius in comparison.