You probably know whats its about so lets not waste time going over it. Suffice to say that it doesn't work. This is ludicrously simplistic stuff. Every joke could have been dreamt up by your teenage kids and if we're talking about having a dig on the War on Terror (Remember that?) then were I an Al-Queda operative watching jihad-ism lampooned with a blunt knife, the low points being camp suicide bombers watching the titular show on TIVO (We're all decadent consumers at heart you see) and other nonsense like Omar, the reluctant bomber, turned on to America by his success as karaoke singer, I'd step up my plans for attack and target these filmmaker s first. All of this could be forgiven if any of the gags were funny or if just one of the laden setups paid off but they aren't and they don't. Forget all this crap about an inappropriate subject matter or sensitive timing, the issue here is that a land plush with satirical possibilities has been cluster bombed rather than cultivated. Terrorism is ridiculous, the so-called War even more so. Bush is ten movies on his own. Great targets, lots to say (though not by me of course) but if this is the sharpest comment mainstream Hollywood can offer than perhaps they should stick to the likes of Scary Movie 5. Someone collect the prints and fly a plane into them please.
Review of American Dreamz
