Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of "South Park," spoof action movies in "Team America: World Police" (2004), a comedy whose characters are puppets. Team America is a commando unit based inside Mount Rushmore that fights terrorism around the world. Unfortunately, there is collateral damage destroying the Eiffel Tower and the Sphinx. The main villain is North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, and opposing Team America there's a bunch of Hollywood liberals.
The "Team America: World Police" DVD comes with a number of bonus materials. There's no audio commentary track, but Parker and Stone give a five-minute intro to their film in "Team America: An Introduction." There are also eight production featurettes with a total running time of about 55 minutes. In addition, the DVD contains 10 deleted/extended scenes and outtakes, but the total running time for these is only about six minutes. Finally, storyboards are provided for six of the movie's sequences.
Paramount Home Video has released three slightly different DVD versions of "Team America: World Police." The version I'm describing here is R-rated and widescreen, and that's the only version about which I have first-hand knowledge.
There's also an unrated widescreen DVD version that my research indicates is about a minute longer than the R-rated version. Apparently the unrated version contains a small amount of material whose raunchiness exceeds the boundaries of the R rating.
In addition to the widescreen R-rated version, there's also a full-screen R-rated version. Presumably the only important difference between these two versions is the feature film's aspect ratio.
To the best of my knowledge, all three DVD versions of "Team America: World Police" are single-disc, all have the same bonus materials, and all three are billed as a "Special Collector's Edition." As best I can determine, the only differences lie in the feature film's MPAA rating and aspect ratio.
Below I've detailed all the special features of the R-rated widescreen DVD version of "Team America: World Police."
DVD Details for the R-Rated Widescreen Version:
- DVD Release Date: May 17, 2005
- Feature Run Time: 1 Hour 37 Minutes
- Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1), Color
- MPAA Rating: R for Graphic Crude & Sexual Humor, Violent Images & Strong Language – All Involving Puppets
- English 5.1 Surround
- English 2.0 Surround
- French 2.0 Surround
- English Subtitles
- French Subtitles
- Spanish Subtitles
- Team America: An Introduction (5 min. 8 sec.)
- Featurette: Building the World (12 min. 40 sec.)
- Featurette: Crafting the Puppets (8 min.)
- Featurette: Pulling the Strings (10 min. 7 sec.)
- Featurette: Capturing the Action (6 min. 42 sec.)
- Featurette: Miniature Pyrotechnics (4 min. 50 sec.)
- Featurette: Up Close With Kim Jong-Il (5 min. 8 sec.)
- Featurette: Dressing Room Test (2 min. 4 sec.)
- Featurette: Puppet Test (4 min. 9 sec.)
- Deleted/Extended Scenes and Outtakes (6 min. 7 sec.)
- Animated Storyboards (6 sequences)
- Theatrical Trailers (2)
