"Team America: World Police" is nothing new

The good news is "South Park"'s creative team is back for another out-of-control film. Expect all of Trey Parker's and Matt Stone's craziness, including their no-apologies, take-no-prisoners attitude and their hilarious violence and perverted plots. This action movie parody has enough exploding heads, silly Muslim caricatures and puppet sex to make the most lenient and cool soccer mom lock up her children until Parker's and Stone's film is banned.

The bad news is "Team America: World Police" is nothing that Parker and Stone have not already done before in their hit show "South Park", which plays on Comedy Central. Anyone who has seen the show already knows Parker and Stone's views on American politics and society, and "Team America" simply parlays those views onto the big screen with an R rating. And boy, do they milk that R rating, with more raunchy jokes and explicit violence than they could ever broadcast on Comedy Central.

The movie revolves around the elite World Police, a group of five Americans dedicated to maintaining global peace, battling naughty terrorists with weapons of mass destruction. The World Police are voiced by Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Masasa and Kristen Miller. In order to prevent the terrorists from striking again, the Team must recruit another member to infiltrate the terrorists' base in Cairo. They find a famed Broadway actor named Gary Johnson, voiced by Trey Parker, and send him out to Cairo to investigate the terrorists.

After Johnson acts his way in through the terrorist headquarters, the World Police realizes that the terrorists' dangerous plot has already begun. What's more, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il leads the plot himself, with a group of Hollywood actors like Alec Baldwin and Susan Sarandon helping perpetrate Kim Jong Il's evil plot. "Team America" must fight Kim Jon Il and his hippie collaborators to keep them from destroying freedom around the globe forever.

As always, seeing some over-exposed celebrities riddled with bullets or mauled by panthers, (cleverly played by real black kitties) is quite satisfying, as is watching puppets fight each other and blow things up. In that sense, " Team America" has original and outrageously funny content.

However, there have been dozens of celebrity parodies on "South Park", such as Mel Gibson running around his estate in his knickers babbling and ranting like a crazy man and Barbara Streisand becoming a huge metal Godzilla-like monster. Or the times when Kathy Gifford turned into a dinosaur or the Fab Five from "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" turned into crab-people, all gags familiar to lovers of "South Park". "Team America" simply samples "South Park's" humor.

Although sometimes hilarious and entertaining, "Team America" is simply another iteration of Parker's and Stone's "South Park" gag.

Team America: World Police is 98 minutes long and rated R for vulgar language and humor, as well as graphic puppet sex.