In their gleefully daft marionette burlesque, Matt Stone and Trey Parker re-create the ’60s Thunderbirds style to send up several decades’ worth of xenophobic action clichés. The movie skewers a world in which our pop culture, and more than a little of our national policy, now celebrate fake strength and fake power.
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