An American Carol PG-13

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An American Carol
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  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 23 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 6, 2009
  • Originally Released: 2008
  • Label: Mpower Pictures

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 15,822
It often takes mockery and even silliness to make one see the best and worst of a situation or themselves or just have to have some fun and it always seems to be funnier when done on film and by David Zucker. Full Review
Behind The Lens
Nov 5, 2019
It is hard to believe that a comedy this singularly inept and downright unfunny came from one of the minds behind one of the funniest comedies of all time, Airplane!. Full Review
Cinematical
Dec 17, 2009
Rating: 2/10 -- You could strip every last marginally political idea from the movie, and it would still probably be one of the most grueling, unfunny things released that year. Full Review
Antagony & Ecstasy
May 5, 2011
The mean spirit of Zucker's satire hardly jibes with the liberal spirits of the original tale. Full Review
TIME Magazine
Nov 29, 2018
Rating: 1/4 -- Utterly asinine, sophomoric, tasteless, the movie has much in common with Zucker's Airplane!, The Naked Gun 2 1/2 and Scary Movie sequels, minus the laughs. Full Review
Toronto Star
Oct 13, 2008
Rating: 1/4 -- Using sledgehammer gags in the service of a dissent-bashing tale, Zucker aims for the flag-waving brio of Warner Bros. cartoons during World War II, but he succeeds only in ruining Farley's big break. Full Review
Boston Phoenix
Apr 23, 2009
Rating: 1/5 -- It's a polemic, a screed, a combination comic rant and sentimental flag-waver that doesn't work as either. Full Review
Orlando Sentinel
Oct 6, 2008

Product Description:

Director David Zucker (AIRPLANE, NAKED GUN) returns to the satire genre with AN AMERICAN CAROL. The political spoof stars Kevin Farley (brother of the late comedian Chris Farley) as Michael Malone, a left-wing documentary filmmaker with a strong likeness to the controversial real-life Michael Moore. The world has long put up with Malone's cynical films and so-called liberal antics. But when he announces his plans to abolish the Fourth of July, the consensus is that he's finally gone too far. Can the three spirits who arrive to haunt Mr. Malone change his stubborn world view' Kelsey Grammer plays one of the three ghosts intent on bringing out Malone's patriotic side through a series of wild adventures filled with celebrity cameos by Gary Coleman, Leslie Nielsen, and Dennis Hopper, to name a few. Malone may still have a loyal fan following, but for this trip he's all on his own. A cross between A CHRISTMAS CAROL and films like SCARY MOVIE, AN AMERICAN CAROL uses ghosts as the main vehicle for its pro-America jokes. Together, the spirits of General Patton, President Kennedy, and President Washington drive the plot of this spoof, which unlike many recent satires, pokes fun at the more liberal end of things.

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  • UPC: 883476005379
  • Shipping Weight: 0.26/lbs (approx)
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