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Sony streams North Korea comedy online

Meanwhile Google and Microsoft joined forces with Sony to release the film to online audiences.

“After discussing all the issues, Sony and Google agreed that we could not sit on the sidelines and allow a handful of people to determine the limits of free speech in another country — however silly the content might be,” Google chief legal officer David Drummond said in a blog post.

Starring comic actors Seth Rogen and James Franco, the film is a silly, low-brow romp about a CIA plot to assassinate Kim.

A kind of a cross between a slapstick James Bond movie and “Hangover,” it is aimed squarely at an audience (most likely teen boys) out for a fun but vacuous night at the cinema.

Almost two hours long, the film depicts how girl-chasing, hard-partying, always fashionable tabloid TV presenter Dave Skylark (Franco) and his bro-romance producer (Rogen), score an exclusive interview with the leader of the world’s most reclusive state.

That’s when the CIA steps in and presents them with a plan to kill Kim.

Once in in Pyongyang, however, Skylark begins to bond with Kim over basketball, Katy Perry songs piped into his Russian-made tank, and margaritas served during a drug-fuelled evening with a bevy of naked beauties.

There are shots of a naked Kim’s backside, and he’s portrayed as a man deeply scarred by never winning his father’s approval and determined to show the world how tough he can be.

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