“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.
