Sean Penn steamed over puppet satire
By RODNEY HO
The film doesn't officially arrive in theaters until Friday, but activist-actor Sean Penn is already spitting splinters over "Team America: World Police," the savagely satirical puppet movie created by "South Park" bad boys Matt Stone and Trey Parker.
In the missive posted on the Drudge Report Web site, the thin-skinned thespian, whose left-leaning puppet persona gets horribly (but hilariously) mutilated in "TA," writes that the pair is "encouraging irresponsibility that will ultimately lead to the disembowelment, mutilation, exploitation and death of innocent people throughout the world."
Penn wrote the letter in response to Stone's recent public statements mocking P. Diddy's "Vote or Die!" public service announcement ads. Stone's statement -- "There's no shame in not voting" -- was aimed at people who are uneducated on the candidates and the issues.
"No one's ignorance," Penn writes, "is an excuse."
The actor signs the letter with "all best and a sincere [expletive] you, Sean Penn."
On Saturday night, Atlantans got their first look at "Team America: World Police" during a sneak preview.
Between scenes of puppets getting drunk and projectile vomiting and extended sequences of er, puppet-lovin', Buzz managed to muffle our guffaws long enough to take a note or two.
First, Alec Baldwin, Tim Robbins, Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon, Matt Damon and Martin Sheen probably should avoid this flick. In "Team America," the liberal Hollywood types are members of the Film Actors Guild, which naturally leads to various running jokes about the organization's inevitable acronym.
Incidentally, Stone and Parker should be less concerned about the attack from Penn in favor of a potential nuclear-powered present from North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. After all, in the film, Kim Jong ll is depicted as the film's bespectacled, babe-impaired villain who talks and sings suspiciously like Eric Cartman.
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