Conservatives everywhere are singing David Zucker's CAROL!

Liberal Hollywood sucks! They're all a bunch of communist nutjob hippies! Woooooooo!!!!!!!!

AN AMERICAN CAROL (2008)

Michael Moore sucks. Let's face it. He's a self-righteous piece of shit that abuses his First Amendment rights by shoving anti-American propaganda down our throats several times a year. I don't know about you but I can't take any filmmaker seriously that either lies or exaggerates so badly that other filmmakers take it upon themselves to produce "debunker" films that explain point-by-point where someone has gone off the deep end.

Thankfully for Hollywood there's a David Zucker out there to help counter the industry's blatant bias. Zucker's track record has some ups and downs - AIRPLANE! being one of the ups, SUPERHERO MOVIE being one of the downs - but AN AMERICAN CAROL offers a breath of fresh air in a medium that is dominatly, and sometimes nauseatingly, slanted to the left.

AN AMERICAN CAROL is silly. It's full of wacky gags and parody-level stereotyping, but the film never really tries to be more than the spoof that it essentially is. Instead of a genre spoof, it's a Moore spoof, and this is where the film achieves its objectives. It doesn't have to be overly clever. All it has to do it take repeated jabs at Michael Moore and that's what it does. It makes fun of his "documentary filmmaker" status. It makes fun of his obesity. It makes fun of his flagrant hatred of America. It makes fun of everything that Michael Moore does that makes the man thoroughly disgusting and despiseful.

Kevin Farley is simply okay, though at points it seems as if all we're seeing is the reincarnate of his deceased brother Chris dressed up in Moore's standard hoodie and Michigan State hat. Kelsey Grammar is rather underwhelming as well, but in all fairness, it's a role that's been seen before in several different incarnations (General Patton as one of the ghosts of Christmas past) making a distinguishable performance difficult to attain. The film is also complemented by a plethora of conservative heads: Bill O'Reilly, Dennis Hopper, and Robert Davi, all of which have seemingly volunteered whatever possible to help take one big, terrorist-hating, country-music-loving, hamburger-guzzling jab at liberal Hollywood.

The film is a spoof movie and there's no getting around it. It's not particularly genius or witty but that's okay. AN AMERICAN CAROL takes its shots at Michael Moore and the rest of the Hollywood leftist goons and that's all it needs to do. It's no AIRPLANE! (though Leslie Nielsen does feature), but it's certainly miles ahead of Moore's propagandist garbage. While the stupid humor (and overall just stupid story and dialogue) left the weight of a life-sized Michael Moore doll to be desired, anything that can show audiences how thoroughly disgusting a human being Moore is gets my praise.



I'm guessing this will be my last review until QUANTUM OF SOLACE hits American theatres on November 14. Until then, happy viewing!