Liberals are so incomprehensibly misguided and frustrating that you just have to shake your head in astonished disbelief and laugh. Or so this movie asserts.
An American Carol is a bait-and-switch scam: it promises light entertainment but delivers a heavy-handed sucker punch of sobering "reality," if reality is defined as a particular world-view and value set shared by political and social conservatives. Any character to the left of far right in this "comedy" is depicted as a ridiculous (but not funny) two-dimensional stereotype.
Conservatives may enjoy this paean to their particular ideology, but such a heavy cloud of seriousness and pushy message-delivery (Patriotism equals support for military activity, for example) hangs over this movie that as a "comedy" it falls flat.
An American Carol is a bait-and-switch scam: it promises light entertainment but delivers a heavy-handed sucker punch of sobering "reality," if reality is defined as a particular world-view and value set shared by political and social conservatives. Any character to the left of far right in this "comedy" is depicted as a ridiculous (but not funny) two-dimensional stereotype.
Conservatives may enjoy this paean to their particular ideology, but such a heavy cloud of seriousness and pushy message-delivery (Patriotism equals support for military activity, for example) hangs over this movie that as a "comedy" it falls flat.