Before you walk into “Team America: World Police,” make sure you’re familiar with Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

These are the guys who make “South Park,” a television cartoon that once had an episode featuring Christopher Reeve eating aborted fetuses to gain enough power to rule the world. If this is not amusing to you, do not see “Team America.”

Parker and Stone pick up right where they left off with their last film, “South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut” – a film that challenged the boundaries of indecency. As moral conservatism pours over the airwaves, it is Parker and Stone who are echoing the feelings of many Americans – “To hell with all of it.”

“Team America” is not your usual film; it’s a complete mockery of that film. It’s a jarring stab at the works of Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay. Like many of us, Parker and Stone were tired of seeing clichéd action film after clichéd action film. Instead, we get a clichéd action film featuring weird marionette puppets.

Go figure.

We open with a Broadway production featuring Gary Johnston, your usual attractive action hero puppet singing a fully choreographed show tune called “Everyone Has AIDS.” Everyone has AIDS, Gary says, even the “spades.” If this is not amusing to you, please do not see this movie.

We also see an encounter with Team America, a group of superheroes who save the day by destroying groups of terrorists, not to mention countless world landmarks.

Enter Gary, who is being recruited by Team America because of his insanely good acting skills. Team America and its leader, Spottswoode, need Gary to go undercover as a terrorist. At one point in the film, Spottswoode demands Gary to pledge his allegiance to the group by performing oral sex on him. If witnessing this act is not amusing to you, please do not see this movie.

Gary and Team America team up to take out the terrorists, now being supplied with weapons of mass destruction from the tyrannical North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il.

Along the way, we get roughly a dozen celebrity-mocking puppets, including a hot-dog-eating, ketchup-stained Michael Moore. Matt Damon is the lone puppet treated with reasonable fairness. Parker and Stone create a masterful puppet with the undoubted range and versatility that makes Damon one of the world’s most celebrated A-list actors. Let’s just hope he has a great sense of humor.

While it’s fun to laugh at the absurdities of “Team America,” including an extended sequence of Gary vomiting profusely in a back alley, it’s necessary to appreciate what Parker and Stone have done in its creation. By juxtaposing a silly, Bruckheimer-esque plot with the current state of world affairs, we finally can visualize how overdramatic they both can become in order to sell themselves.

Also, watch how foreign lands are portrayed. Cairo, Egypt is seen as a desert town full of camels, with its residents living in shacks made of mud. In reality, Cairo is just like any big city in America. But Parker and Stone don’t recreate the actual Cairo; they create the image of Cairo that many ignorant Americans picture when they hear it mentioned.

It’s easy for Americans to think about everything from an ethnocentric standpoint, and Parker and Stone mock this by letting the audience know where each city is located by telling them its distance in miles from America.

It is impossible to take this film seriously, but think about what you are laughing at and ask yourself why you are laughing at it. Maybe it’s just the graphic puppet sex, or maybe it’s just about time that we had a film that makes Americans laugh at America, not with it.