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An American Carol (2008)

Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Oct 10, 2008

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

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Details Release Date: Oct 03, 2008; Rated: PG-13; Length: 88 Minutes; Genre: Comedy; With: Kevin P. Farley

Image credit: Sam Emerson

MOORE LAUGHS? Satire An American Carol turns up the heat on a filmmaker who bears an uncanny resemblance to the Fahrenheit 9/11 filmmaker (played by Kevin Farley)

Gag-loving farceur David Zucker (Airplane!) flings grenades and rubber chickens in An American Carol, a loony attack on wacko liberalism and a ding-dong defense of wacko conservatism. Only you can decide whether you're in the mood to wade through the smear of stink jokes and political ravings. Zucker uses A Christmas Carol as a structure and the persona of baseball-capped filmmaker Michael Moore (Kevin Farley) as a Scrooge in need of political re-education (and deodorant); George S. Patton (Kelsey Grammer) helps him see the patriotic light. For veritas, Bill O'Reilly plays...a right-wing blowhard. C

Originally posted Oct 03, 2008 Published in issue #1016 Oct 17, 2008 Order article reprints

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