I’m looking forward to tomorrow night, when I’ll see Team America, the new political puppet movie. One reason I’m going is that it’s got both right-wingers and left-wingers so upset. The review in Slate by David Edelstein is hilarious, not because it’s a clever review, but because he is left spluttering indignantly at the idea that Trey Parker and Matt Stone might dare to have a little fun at the expense of leftist actors.
You can see why Edelstein was so shocked:
I read the review and laughed out loud. The only good review I have seen so far has been from Reason magazine (imagine that!). I can’t wait to see the movie.
I was surprised to see Edelstein write that “Leftist actors learned from Vietnam not to cozy up to dictators.”
Not even Fidel Castro ( http://tinyurl.com/3vc22 )?
N.B.: Spielberg has said that the “eight most important days” quote attributed to him was made up by the Cuban state-run press.