I tried to go into this with an open mind. I'm fairly liberal generally, but I enjoy good movies, regardless of the slant. This tripe, though... Jesus. It was horrendous. There is not a single redeeming moment in the entire movie. "Disaster Movie" was better than this. This is - I would say a blatant propaganda piece, but that's unfair to blatant propaganda. This is propaganda on a level with "Triumph of the Will", if it was directed by an idiot and had a stupider message. Zucker was massively disappointing here. When he's on, he can be amazing, but when he isn't, the results are ugly. He's great at surrealist humor, obviously, but this film just tries to slap you in the face with the message every minute or so and the blame for that has to go to Zucker. Obviously the line "not screened for critics" should have filled me with dread, but I really didn't think it would be this bad. Good God.
Review of An American Carol
