An American Carol (Blu-ray) PG-13
Laugh like your country depends on it.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 23 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 6, 2009
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Mpower Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kelsey Grammer, Kevin Farley & Leslie Nielsen | |
Performer: | Trace Adkins, Robert Davi, Geoffrey Arend, Serdar Kalsin, Jon Voight, Dennis Hopper, David Alan Grier & James Woods | |
Directed by | David Zucker | |
Screenwriting by | David Zucker, Lewis Friedman & Myrna Sokoloff | |
Cameo: | Gary Coleman | |
Produced by | Stephen McEveety & John Shepherd | |
Director of Photography: | Brian Baugh |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 1/5 --
It's a polemic, a screed, a combination comic rant and sentimental flag-waver that doesn't work as either.
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Orlando Sentinel
The mean spirit of Zucker's satire hardly jibes with the liberal spirits of the original tale.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 5/10 --
Kada vi%u0161e potrebe za Michaelom Mooreom ne bude, potrebe za filmovima koje tog istog Moorea parodiraju bit %u0107e jo%u0161 manje.
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Draxblog Movie Reviews
American Carol is [Zucker's] first attempt to merge his newfound worldview with his work. Unfortunately, he swings at so many progressive targets, the punches he does land aren't backed by enough force.
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WORLD
Rating: 1/4 --
Using sledgehammer gags in the service of a dissent-bashing tale, Zucker aims for the flag-waving brio of Warner Bros. cartoons during World War II, but he succeeds only in ruining Farley's big break.
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Boston Phoenix
Rating: 1/4 --
Utterly asinine, sophomoric, tasteless, the movie has much in common with Zucker's Airplane!, The Naked Gun 2 1/2 and Scary Movie sequels, minus the laughs.
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Toronto Star
Rating: 2/10 --
You could strip every last marginally political idea from the movie, and it would still probably be one of the most grueling, unfunny things released that year.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Product Description:
Director David Zucker (AIRPLANE, NAKED GUN) returns to the satire genre with AN AMERICAN CAROL. The political spoof stars Kevin Farley (brother of the late comedian Chris Farley) as Michael Malone, a left-wing documentary filmmaker with a strong likeness to the controversial real-life Michael Moore. The world has long put up with Malone's cynical films and so-called liberal antics. But when he announces his plans to abolish the Fourth of July, the consensus is that he's finally gone too far. Can the three spirits who arrive to haunt Mr. Malone change his stubborn world view' Kelsey Grammer plays one of the three ghosts intent on bringing out Malone's patriotic side through a series of wild adventures filled with celebrity cameos by Gary Coleman, Leslie Nielsen, and Dennis Hopper, to name a few. Malone may still have a loyal fan following, but for this trip he's all on his own. A cross between A CHRISTMAS CAROL and films like SCARY MOVIE, AN AMERICAN CAROL uses ghosts as the main vehicle for its pro-America jokes. Together, the spirits of General Patton, President Kennedy, and President Washington drive the plot of this spoof, which unlike many recent satires, pokes fun at the more liberal end of things.
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Ghosts
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Politics
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Spoof
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Supernatural
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Satire
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Political
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