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Team America rating battle over explicit puppet sex

http://www.dazereader.com/24000650.htm Team America: World Police, the puppet action thriller directed by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, is slated to open in ten days. But this film, as they say, is not yet rated. Why not?

The latest feature film from the creators of South Park is facing the box office kiss of death NC-17 rating because of a scene showing simulated oral sex between marionettes.

The makers of Team America: World Police have reportedly gone to great lengths, modifying the offending scene nine times for submission to the Motion Picture Association of America, the US film classification authority. They are keen to secure an R rating, which would allow under-18s to see the film when accompanied by an adult. [...]

Parker pointed to the differences between the MPAAs treatment of simulated violence and simulated sex. Team America features violent scenes in which a Tim Robbins puppet is set on fire and a Susan Sarandon puppet is dropped off a 20-story building - all acts that passed MPAA muster.

"We blow Janeane Garofalo's head clean off, [but for the MPAA] it's all about the positions of the dolls having sex," Parker said. "It's not funny - it's tragic."

Actually it's pretty funny. Puppet sex fetishists will just have to wait for the unrated special edition director's cut DVD.

 

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