David Zucker's Latest Masterpiece: An American Carol
10-16-08 | 03:26 AM
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Reason magazine offers an interesting assessment of why this movie doesn't work:
It doesn’t put it in league with the great liberal comedy. There’s a reason for that, as TV critics point out every time a conservative comedy or skit fails. Political comedy mocks authority. Conservative comedy in the Age of Bush venerates authority. The “heavies” that corrupt Malone and (temporarily) ruin the lives of his conservative extended family are powerless, silly activists. Malone simply gets slapped around a bit and decides the establishment was right. If you transported Zucker back to 1978 and pitched him Animal House, he’d direct Niedermeyer: Man of Iron.
01-07-09 | 01:01 AM
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Re: David Zucker's Latest Masterpiece: An American Carol
I just rented this and was very pleasantly surprised. It's not high art or anything, but it's genuinely funny at times, which is more than I can say for a lot of recent comedies.
Leslie Nielsen's role is completely useless and the preaching did reach fever pitch a few times, but there were some great bits. I thought the college professor musical and the Cuba bits were the highlights. There were too many fat jokes, but the recurring groping made me laugh every time.
Leslie Nielsen's role is completely useless and the preaching did reach fever pitch a few times, but there were some great bits. I thought the college professor musical and the Cuba bits were the highlights. There were too many fat jokes, but the recurring groping made me laugh every time.
01-07-09 | 08:09 AM
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Re: David Zucker's Latest Masterpiece: An American Carol
The funniest part of this movie is how it ended up making the target audience look retarded. It was like Fireproof, with fat jokes.
God, get me out of the South.
God, get me out of the South.
