An American Carol

I can't say that my politics are very conservative (except in making government smaller), but this film makes "Baby Geniuses" seems like "Citizen Kane."

I can appreciate a well-made film regardless of its agenda. "Patton" and "Dirty Harry" are great, quality films with a Conservative bent. "An American Carol" is not.

This movie is not quality film-making. The writing, as Shakespeare wrote, "is a tale told by an idiot: full of sound and fury and signifying nothing." And NOT funny.

The acting - (Dennis Hopper, go watch your early work and strive for half of that artistry) - is painful. They say, "drama is hard, but comedy is harder." In this case, Kevin Farley (the Frank Stallone of the comedy world) must think drama is impossible.

As to the dual credits of direction/writing, David Zucker has completely lost it. I loved his earlier work, but he hasn't worked on an artistically successful film in over ten years, and it shows. Sort of like Dennis Hopper.

Keep in mind folks, this is just a comedy but it does contain enough messages to anger any ultra-liberal. It won't hurt anyone to watch this movie and even the far left liberals should get a good laugh. You have to admit after watching it that it's a harmless movie and is in good spirit. Those that are left leaning, head this warning, it will bring to light some painfully harsh realities of the problems our American culture is facing within our own borders and how ridiculous some of those ultra left leaning (progressives) are. If you are open minded, do not care about politics and would like to experience the Zucker style of humor, go see it. You'll get to see an angle of things that hasn't come from Hollywood in recent years.

i laughed, i cringed, i smirked, i got mad, really mad, i felt, i almost cried, definitely choked, this was a good film. and so much of it i hated, because it was true. and you all know what i mean.

i am conservative in Hollywood, my friends treat me exactly like this movie. i do feel alone, a lot.

was it entertaining? well, in very few movies do i laugh out loud, and this is one of them. it was so much fun to laugh, yet as the movie went on the burden of truths took their toll on me. thank goodness for the zombie reprieve in the 3rd act, that helped! it will actually take me a few days to recover from the emotions i have, but knowing Zucker and others are out there, in Hollywood, and for them and the companies involved, the actors, and crew, to make this film, is a great thing indeed.

on so many levels, this film did a lot, acting, jokes, sets, story, message, lines, i actually think this should be an option in university & high school viewing! you know, students can choose Inconvenient Truth, any Michael Moore film, or American Carol. After all, we believe in choice.

A great film.

...but these guys actually tried to make it funny and that's why they failed. They should have tried to make a neocon documentary about leftism instead that would be funny as hell. Insulting to other races "jokes", senile humor, extremely divisive world-view and the stalking of a fairly good documentarist (yeah I said Michael Moore is a good documentarist, go cry in your corners now). So pretty much all the ignorance and stupidity you'd expect from redneck neocons. Only surprise was that the movie wasn't produced in Alabama. The only joke I laughed at was the Taliban training video and I felt like an idiot after that.

Everyone who follows the social leaning of the Hollywood film world knows that mostly it glows to liberals and it paints a dark picture of the right and conservatives. Well finally a few Hollywood movie star conservatives got together with spoof and parody king man director David Zucker to showcase their side of thought and viewpoints by finally making fun of the left and the liberals. Most of all it's main target is filmmaker Michael Moore as he's portrayed as evil and it shows he will do anything to make a film even if it means being put fourth money wise by the Taliban! Told thru a holiday tale style of a carol by the legendary and traditional Leslie Nielsen he at a fourth of July party tells the story of how bad liberals are for our country from everything starting with national security to social causes. And the film has very funny parodies starting with the take it shows of Michael Moore as a downright slob and so anti-American. The cameo from conservative stars and pundits are good from Kelsey Grammar as General Patton who tries to be a ghost guide to the Moore character to prove that this country is worth fighting for. And Dennis Hopper is just fine as a judge taking on the ACLU in a courtroom spoof. And Mr. big himself Bill O' Reilly gives the tough questions to liberals and country music star Trace Adkins rounds it out well as Moore's angel of death to try and make him a believer in the values of the right and to fight for freedom. Overall no matter what side your on it's a funny parody and feel good movie though it seems odd seeing the liberal side mocked it was nice to see the conservatives showcase their side of being funny by using spoof and parody!