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Team America: World Police

I saw this film on Tuesday with Mark in Ster Century. It’s the latest film from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park and its accompanying movie. Team America: World Police tracks the team tasked with protecting the world from evil terrorists. The puppets are similiar to those used in the old Thunderbirds episodes and there are a number of spot gags highlighting how difficult to manoeuvre they are. The plot is quite thin but there are some very funny sequences and some of the puppets are spot on. I loved the way all of the terrorist dialogue contained the words “Derka, derka, derka” before everything. 🙂 Overall I thought it was entertaining but was lacking in the fact that it tried to lambast too many characters (ie. Helen Hunt) when they didn’t spend time developing a satirical character. It’s not as good as South Park: The Movie or Baseketball but it was good.

Tony’s Rating: 7/10

Plot Synopsis: Team America follows an international police force dedicated to maintaining global stability. Learning that power hungry dictator Kim Jong Il (Parker) is out to destroy the world, the team recuits Broadway star Gary Johnston (Parker) to go undercover. With the help of Team America (Stone, Miller, Masasa, Parker, and Norris), Gary manages to slip into an arms dealer’s hideout to uncover the plan to destroy the world. Will Team America be able to save the world?

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Alone It Stands

I went to see “Alone It Stands” on Thursday this week and have been meaning to post about it ever since. It was simply fantastic. 🙂 My mum had mentioned how she wanted to see it while browsing the paper a few weeks previous, so I booked tickets for myself, my mom, my aunt and my brother. The play is essentially 6 actors playing a variety of roles as the base of the story is Munsters famous victory over the All Blacks in 1978. All of the actors are fantastic and the performances exude professionalism and wittyness. It’s on until the 29th of this month at the Olympia and I’d highly recommend it to anyone who loves comedy. 🙂

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$150 Billion

That’s the total cost of the war in Iraq as of last week (source: Cost of War via Neil). Neil goes through the full story in this post and links to a page which shows what $87 billion dollars (the amount originally planned to be spent) looks like.

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“Jeez, it’s hot in here!”

If you’ve ever been to the International Comedy Club then you’ll be able to relate to the title of this post. The place was absolutely jammers last night as I suspect the word got out about Ardal O’Hanlon doing a set. Luckily the group I was with, who I know from the DesBishop.com forum, were allowed in early as we had planned to meetup there. It was so jammed that they were forced to put on a second show downstairs which I haven’t seen since I’ve been going there. 😯 Anyhow, the gig itself was excellent. It was kicked off by Penny Tration, a comedian and singer whos lyrics had a sexual slant as suggested by her name. 🙂 She was very funny and was followed by Ardal O’Hanlon who was testing out some new material. He went down a storm as ya would expect and didn’t seem half as nervous as he was the last time I saw him live in Lucan.

After the interval a friend of mine, Robbie Bonham, from Des’ forum was performing a 5 to 7 minute set (:neutral:) but he had planned to use a flip chart as he’s very good at art and sketching. Due to how full it was however he couldn’t use it (there were people seated on the stage) and came up with an excellent routine which was very well received. After Robbie finished Des came on to do a set which was more improv than structured but was very funny. 🙂 All in all it was an excellent night and the people I met from the forum were really sound.

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Thank God for the Weekend

As the title suggests, I’m really looking forward to this weekend. 🙂 Haven’t had a really hard week but I feel a bit tired in general lately so any time off is welcome. I’m going to football now in a few minutes (hoping the rain holds off :neutral:) and then I may go down to the pub in the morning for the Man United vs Liverpool game. Tomorrow night is the DesBishop.com forum meetup in the International which I’m looking forward to. Sunday, the football returns as the team are playing St Mochtas in a cup game at home. Then later on Sunday I’ll probably go to see “Million Dollar Baby” which is Clint Eastwood’s latest film. Will post on how the weekend went first thing on Monday. 🙂