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An American Carol (Movie); -makes fun of the left
Topic Started: Oct 7 2008, 12:14 PM (238 Views)
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'An American Carol' lampoons the left
  • LOS ANGELES (AP) — It's a movie genre you don't hear much about in Hollywood: the right-wing comedy. For that matter, it's not much of a genre at all.

    But it's exactly what conservative producer-director-screenwriter David Zucker created with "An American Carol."

    The gag-filled liberal lampoon stars Kevin Farley, brother of the late Chris Farley, as a scruffy Michael Moore clone named Michael Malone, an infamous documentary filmmaker leading a slapstick campaign to abolish the Fourth of July.

    "I didn't tell anyone, not even my brother John, I had this part," said Farley, sitting in a conference room chair across from Zucker at Vivendi Entertainment, the film's distributor.

    "We wanted to keep it close to the vest. Meanwhile, I'm growing a beard and getting fatter. I had just gone through a divorce, and my brother was like, 'You need help!'"

    ....Zucker, who has made over $20,000 in contributions to Democrats over the years, turned to the right later in life.

    "It happened gradually for me," said Zucker, director of the original "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun" films.

    "After 9/11, I saw the reactions of both parties. The Democrats were saying, 'How is this our fault? How are we to blame for this?' And the Republicans were saying, 'This is pure evil, and we need to fight this now.' It made me rethink things."

    Zucker acknowledges the release of "An American Carol" is timed to the election, when politics is a hot topic, but he doubts the spoof, which features cameos from the likes of Bill O'Reilly, James Woods, Jon Voight and — believe it — Paris Hilton, has the power to influence voters. His intention is to inspire laughs, not change political perspectives.

    ....Opening Friday, "An American Carol" mixes the narrative of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" with Fox News fodder.

    Leslie Nielsen narrates the tale about Scoorge-ish director Malone stumbling through political-tinted fantasy sequences.

    A slap-happy General George S. Patton (played by Kelsey Grammer) serves as Malone's patriotic ghost of politics past.

    ....Moore is hardly alone in the film's cross hairs. "An American Carol" roasts jihadists, Rosie O'Donnell, college professors, Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler, President Jimmy Carter and chanting protesters. One over-the-top sequence finds Malone alongside a judge (Dennis Hopper) fending off a horde of undead American Civil Liberties Union lawyers.
Rush commented on the movie recently:
  • RUSH: I want to plug a movie, all right? Just right out front: I'm going to plug a movie. It's called An American Carol, and it opens tonight.

    David Zucker, the guy who did the Airplane movies and Naked Gun movies with Leslie Nielsen is the impetus behind this, some great conservative actors. Kelsey Grammer is in this.

    What it is, is they just humorously destroy Michael Moore.

    They just destroy him.

    They've got Chris Farley's brother, who plays Michael Moore in this movie. It's not a long movie.

    They brought it by the house about a month ago.

    I screened it, and they said, "We still have 15 or so minutes to take out of it." I've got the final cut right over there, and I haven't yet seen that

    I haven't had a chance to watch it because I have been swamped.

    But here's why this is important, in addition to the movie being good and funny and will create and cause raucous laughter.

    There's also a movie opening tonight by that reprobate Bill Maher. It's Religulous or --- I don't know how you pronounce it, but it is a movie designed to insult everybody who is a person of faith in this country. It is a comedy that has as its target religion and the "stupid people" that believe in faith, that have a faith.

    .... Let me go back to the movie, An American Carol. It is up against the usual obstacles that conservative movies have, and that is, without.... You know, they're buying advertising time for it around.

    But it's not getting a whole lot of support from the usual Hollywood sources that big movies do, and it's simply because it's conservative.

    Now, what's happening here with this movie is that Mr. Zucker and Steve McEveety, who works with Mel Gibson, all the actors in this movie are putting their necks on the line by doing it.

    You've heard all the talk about conservatives kind of afraid to come out of the closet out there, conservatism is "the new gay in Hollywood."

    And these guys, some of them are very powerful in their own right, and they come out.

    But if this doesn't work, if the critics are able to label it a flop at the box office, it will have a dispiriting effect on further attempts by conservatives to make movies that appeal to a political point of view of an audience that Hollywood does not make movies for.

    When you see this Bill Maher piece of trash is opening the same night, then W by Oliver Stone coming out, and then the attempts that they have made to destroy the Iraq war effort, impugn the US military and all that, it's just relentless.

    They never stop coming at you. This is an effort here by some highly talented, very qualified people, and it's funny.

    It's a kind of treatment that's true about some oaf like Michael Moore that you'll never see Hollywood make other than this.

    So if you've got time this weekend, in addition to throwing down a couple bucks -- if you can get credit at the bank to get some out of your ATM.

    I know we're on the brink of collapse here, but if your ATM is still dispensing cash, go get some money and go see the movie.

    And while you have a nice night and enjoy yourself, you'll also be supporting some good people.

    These guys are putting it on the line here. You know, we sit around and ask, "When's Hollywood going to do something? When's Hollywood going to...?" Here's some people that are doing it. It's called An American Carol. You'll laugh yourself silly through a lot of it, and you'll also be making a statement.
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I wanted to see it this weekend, but couldn't make it. Gas is expensive and such. I might try to see it this week or this weekend, if it's still playing out here.
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Oct 7 2008, 02:58 PM
I wanted to see it this weekend, but couldn't make it.  Gas is expensive and such.  I might try to see it this week or this weekend, if it's still playing out here.

I probably won't get to see it until it comes out on cable.

I'd like to see it, it looks like fun.

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Is the film 'An American Carol' being sabotaged at the box office?

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Doing Your Duty: Buying a Ticket to ‘An American Carol’

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If they had more than two thumbs to direct downward, they would have used them to trash the conservative comedy.


October 8, 2008 - by Christian Toto
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An American Carol, David Zucker’s unabashedly pro-American, anti-left comedy, came out Friday without being screened for critics.

But movie critics pounced anyway, just a day later than normal.

Movie studios occasionally hold films back from critics. Typically, it’s a sign the studio has little faith in the film or it knows the movie in question will be bombarded with negative reviews.

In Zucker’s case, the lack of screenings could simply be an acknowledgment that the vast majority of film critics lean left and won’t take kindly to their side being hit hard. The director himself said film critics wouldn’t like the film’s politics and therefore wouldn’t give the film a fair shake.

The evidence bears that theory out, although even this critic found plenty at fault with the film. Some critics slammed the film fairly without attacking Zucker’s politics — or the conservative nature of the film. Others let their ideological flags flap in the breeze, professionalism be darned.

The Hollywood Reporter couldn’t simply critique the movie for its purported failings. Its review played it mostly fair and balanced, but then it let loose with this doozy of a subhead: “Bottom Line: Proves once and for all that Democrats are simply funnier.”

Hmmm. Hollywood has produced a grand total of one major conservative comedy and the magazine is ready to declare the debate over.

The New York Times checked in with a brief review, calling the film “mean spirited” and “lazy.”

Some critics used turns of phrase they’d never utter in describing, say, a Michael Moore opus. Check out the Miami Herald’s Rene Rodriguez, who calls the film one of the worst movies of all time: “It is the movie’s underlying tone — its relentless hammering on its pro-war, anti-dissent, anti-liberal message — that makes watching it such a sour experience.”

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