An American Carol

PG-13 4
2008 1 hr 23 min Fantasy , Comedy

A cynical anti-American Hollywood filmmaker sets out on a crusade to abolish the 4th of July holiday. He is visited by three spirits who take him on a hilarious journey in an attempt to show him the true meaning of America.

  • Cast:
    Kevin Farley , Kelsey Grammer , Leslie Nielsen , Trace Adkins , Robert Davi , Geoffrey Arend , Travis Schuldt

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Reviews

Solemplex
2008/10/03

To me, this movie is perfection.

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Exoticalot
2008/10/04

People are voting emotionally.

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Baseshment
2008/10/05

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

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Quiet Muffin
2008/10/06

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

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Syl
2008/10/07

I don't know many people who would find this film funny. I would have expected more from Zucker production. Kevin Farley played Michael Maloney, a Michael Moore type film director. The film makes some tasteless jokes about terrorism and liberalism. The cast is first rate but the writing could had been better though. The film is long enough under 90 minutes. A Christmas Carol but set around July 4 to have Michael Maloney to have a Scrooge experience with three ghosts including country singer, Trace Adkins, General S. Patton (Kelsey Grammar) and the late President John F. Kennedy.

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zb15169
2008/10/08

The first 5 minutes of it could fit well in one of the B movies comedy central plays but the rest of it is just complete trash and a poor excuse for satire. I don't even like Michael Moore that much but this is is just lazy writing pandering to the lowest common denominator. I know there are plenty of films like this for the niche market that politically charged films go to but even for stuff I don't agree with I have standards. If you choose to see this film buckle up for an hour and a half of "Oh yea well I bet you hate America" and "agree with me or you hate America" In the age of top 10 lists, Fox News and VH1 we should shun brain dead media like this film.

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nYr10
2008/10/09

Michael Malone (Kevin Farley) is an American documentary maker out to abolish Fourth of July celebrations, perceiving it as the ultimate representation of what is wrong in America. However, he is visited by three ghosts who intend to change the way he views his country.Firstly, David Zucker appears to have fallen a long way since the heights of Airplane and Police Squad – although too many Scary Movie sequels and "spoof" movies on the resume show the path to these new depths of garbage. Unfortunately, we live in a world where bowing to the lowest common denominator in taste and quality still makes money.As somebody outside of the USA, perhaps this is not a movie targeted at me but it feels like the worst kind of low brow comedy, which takes easy and cheap shots at "anti-American" film-makers. Although the target is clear (Kevin Farley's characterisation is in no doubt), if questioning the way things work automatically marks you as an anarchist (or "anti- American", in this case) then what is a democracy? I may not always agree with your point but would not deny you the right to say it. "Freedom of Speech" still exists, right?Leslie Neilson appears as a grandfather, telling the story we see play out. Although always good to see Neilson, he has little to do in this movie besides one "action" scene. Trace Adkins appears as both The Angel of Death and himself. As himself, he is apparently the ultimate representation of America and what it means to be a true American. The role is fairly small, which is probably best, as even if you enjoy his musical output, I'm not sure feature films are his future. Kelsey Grammar as General Patton has an overly long yet mildly amusing role but is ultimately wasted in it. His feature film output will not garner awards – Down Periscope any one? – but he may be the highlight in an otherwise dull production with few redeeming features.Bad acting, cheap shots at those willing to question the norm and "jokes" that will make many wince – we should be allowed to charge the film-makers for our time spent watching this rubbish.Overall, if you are a fan of the spoof movies of recent years, give this a try. If you are a Michael Moore hater, give this a try. If you don't fall in to either of those camps, don't waste your time or money.

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Hardylane
2008/10/10

This could genuinely be one of the worst movies I've ever, ever seen. Jaw-droppingly, horrifying right-wing, with not one single redeeming feature. Compulsive viewing because... I just couldn't believe what I was seeing, and whether or not there was some kind of tongue-in-cheek satirical payoff... but there wasn't. Just a non-stop humourless onslaught against anything, or anyone, who opposes the extremist right- wing agenda of the likes of Palin, Limbaugh, Fox News, Ex-Pres Bush, Beck and the countless other neo-con idiots that are making American into a global laughing stock.David Zucker is one of those bizarre Americans who transformed themselves, mutant-like, from a comedy satirist into a neo-con right- wing mouth-foaming bigot after the WTC attack.Every single second of this movie is spent ripping anyone even remotely humanist or left-wing. It extols the virtues of "shoot first, ask questions later", in the name of its blind, moronic worship of the grand turgid, bloated monster that is right-wing America.Freedom comes in one flavour, and with only one set of rules; do as we say, believe what we believe, or we'll shoot you.I would have switched it off had I not been so frozen by it's stunning offensiveness.This is a movie that makes the USA dumber just by existing.Seriously, David Zucker, you've turned into one disgusting human being.

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