An American Carol (2008)
Stephen Hayes reports that David Zucker has in play a satirical new motion picture, titled An American Carol, a comedy whose humor comes at the expense of the anti-American Hollywood formerly larboard.
An American Carol is based loosely—very loosely—on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. ...
The respite in An American Carol is not Christmas and the opposition is not Ebenezer Scrooge. In place of, the film follows the exploits of a slovenly, anti-American filmmaker named Michael Malone (played by Kevin Farley), who has joined with a radical-wing activist party (Moovealong.org) to ban the Fourth of July. Along the way, Malone is visited by the ghosts of three American heroes—George Washington, George S. Patton, and John F. Kennedy—who try to sway him he’s got it all naughty. When terrorists from Afghanistan get that they need to conscript more operatives to commission up for the ever-diminishing accumulation of suicide bombers, they start out a search for scarcely the right ourselves to help manufacture a new propaganda video. “This will not be flinty to find in Hollywood,” says one. “They all disinclined America.” When they inhabit on Malone, who is in require of work after his last cloud (Die You American Pigs) bombed at the box post, he unwittingly helps them with their plans to set afloat another attack on American defile.
The entire layer is an extended retaliation to the vacuous antiwar rallying cry that “War Is Not the Fill.” Zucker’s comeback, in effect: “It Depends on the Query.” ...
Jon Voight plays George Washington. Dennis Hopper makes an show as a judge who defends his courthouse by gunning down ACLU lawyers fatiguing to take down the Ten Commandments. James Woods plays Michael Malone’s instrument. And Kelsey Grammer plays Loose George S. Patton, Malone’s guidebook to American account and the mouthpiece of the fade away’s writers.
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