‘Team America’: Sex, Puppets & Controversy – Leave it to Matt and Trey to be the Anti(Micheal Moore). I for one can’t wait to see this film. From the IMDb entry, On 1 August 2004, the White House issued an official statement (based only on seeing the film’s trailer) that they object to the film “mocking the war on terror”. Parker and Stone responded by saying “We thank the Bush administration for the free press”.