Kim Jong-il: ‘Team America’ film references ‘trend’ on Twitter in wake of death!!!“When the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong II, joins a group of pacifist actors and actresses with the intention of using weapons of big destruction, the Team America (team) tries to avoid the destruction of the world,” states its page on IMDb, the world wide web motion picture database. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il was died on Saturday, the state announced Sunday evening. The 69 year-old, who died from a heart attack on a train on Saturday, spread word of his own greatness to the point that he often seemed more preposterous myth than actual human. With his small stature, rotating stable of women and boasts of expertise in every field imaginable, many in the western world knew Kim more as a caricature than what he really was: a truly barbaric dictator.The puppet movie. On Monday, the film enjoyed a somewhat unusual resurgence in popularity in the wake of his death.
It depicts Kim as an evil dictator attempting to conquer the world while openly mocking his limited English. Hee was featured as a singing dictator who was lonely – or “ronrey” – while living in his large opulent palace.
Stone, 40, and Parker, 42, also wrote the screenplay and supplied voices of many of the characters to the cult movie. Parker voiced Kim’s voice. Neither have commented about the death. It was one of many good natured references in an otherwise serious news story. It has been reported that the dictator was a well-known film buff, reportedly owning between 10,000 and 20,000 DVDs of all genres. In a 2005 review when it was released on DVD, The Daily Telegraph’s Benjamin Secher, described the film as “good, unclean fun”. Fans, he added, do not “have to be a smutty schoolboy to fall for the puerile charms of Team America”
“The film’s production staff – seen beavering away obsessively, on the accompanying behind-the-scenes documentaries – manage to make the creation of astoundingly accurate doll’s-house sized film-sets and an immaculate array of costumes for the string-operated stars look like child’s play. Good, unclean fun.”
