“An American Carol,” a new movie both directed and written by David Zucker, has been recently released in the United States, without having previously been screened for critics. The plot of the movie converges into an 83-minute long production of two major cliches, which seem to have both stood the test of time: the scrooge who does not believe in Christmas and American politics. Meshed into a big bowl of trashing the war on terrorism, the liberals and all they believe in. Served cold, because the satire might sting the tongue.

The main character, named Michael Malone, is a documentary filmmaker who has his mind set on abolishing the United States’ national holiday, since he has lost faith in the nation and its leaders. If the name Michael, put together with the phrase “documentary filmmaker” did not make you say “Could they have been more obvious than this?” already, maybe another name will: Moore. Michael Moore, the one who directed and produced “Fahrenheit 9/11,” „Sicko”, and „Bowling for Columbine,” three of the world’s most high-praised documentaries. His cinematic works are packed full of criticism aimed at the American health care system, gun ownership, the Iraq war, globalization and U.S. Republican president George W. Bush.

Modelled on Moore, Malone-who is portrayed by Kevin Farley-is visited by three ghosts that try to put him back on the America-loving and cherishing track. George S. Patton, a leading United States Army General in World War II, George Washington, the first U.S. president and John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth man to come to the helm of America, are the ones on a mission to explain the importance of the war on terror to Malone.

At the core of the movie’s plot lies the main idea that terrorism is the devil’s tool (yes, he keeps them in his box next to idle hands) and that it should be nipped in the bud, an obvious to the naked-eye truth that, unfortunately, the liberals are as blind as a bat to.

Patton’s ghost (played by Kelsey Grammer) therefore takes Michael Malone back to 1938, in Munich, to show him Neville Chamberlain singing „Kumbaya,” a spiritual song from the 1930s, alongside Adolf Hitler, Hideki Tojo and Benito Mussolini.

Moreover, Jon Voight, who gives life (well, sort of) to Washington’s ghost, whisks Malone off to 2001 to observe together what is left of the World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks.

„An American Carol” stars a multitude of actors, singers and also Paris Hilton, the hotel heiress portraying who else than her fabulous self in the production. The cast includes Leslie Nielsen (as the narrator of the story), Dennis Hopper, country singer Trace Adkins, who plays the Angel of Death, David Alan Grier and Gary Coleman, as slaves in the Deep South.

Director David Zucker, 61, has also produced „The Naked Gun,” and „Airplane!”

„An American Carol” was co-written by Zucker and Myrna Sokoloff.