Theater
Rockwell Group led art direction of set design for this wildly satirical travelogue, creating a unique visual language for the film's far-flung settings. Team America: World Police is a movie created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker in the style of a classic marionette show.
What if the actors are two feet tall?
Sets reflect the U.S.-centric viewpoints of the American World Police.
Team America’s vehicles are overloaded with zippy icons and graphics.
Kim Jung-il is rendered as a piano-playing puppet in his palace.
The movie is seen through the eyes of its puppet heroes and villains.
They inhabit a world of graphic stereotypes and jokes. Madcap action takes the characters from a dictator’s weapons-themed palace to a psychedelic interpretation of Times Square to a Paris in which every icon is on the same street.
Hundreds of unique props are hidden within the sets.
Playbills tile the dressing room floor.
A Philippe Starck juicer takes the role of a floor lamp in Lisa’s bedroom.
Torpedos hang from lanterns in Kim Jung-il’s palace