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An American Carol
2008
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An American Carol
Positive Reviews
7
Negative reviews
20
Average Rating
1.6
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2.5
Only you can decide whether youre in the mood to wade through the smear of stink jokes and political ravings.
EW
0.5
This movie is seriously unfunny, and its not just my admittedly left wing politics that are in the way of my getting the joke.
3.2
Consider it a curio representing a philosophy thats mostly overlooked in Hollywood.
Eric Ds Nider
2.0
...too unfocused and ill disciplined to work either as Dickens pastiche or as political satire.
News Review
1.9
Is there any filmmaker alive, whether Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal, capable of producing a truly incisive, intelligent satire about ..
News Day
0.6
While its unusual to see a Hollywood comedy aimed at conservatives, OReilly pretty well sums up the movies mission: You tell the audience what it want ..
New York Post
0.5
Forget about politics for a moment...Carol is first and foremost a terrible piece of filmmaking, marred by bad performances, cringe inducing dialogue ..
Film Journal International ..
2.5
At its loosest and goofiest, An American Carol, which didnt screen for critics, tosses high spirited cherry bombs against perceived liberal sins: The ..
Boston
1.3
An American Carol is a mishmash of stupid gags and ill conceived skits that wanders far from its central premise: Michael Malone, renegade anti Americ ..
Toronto Star
0.0
But the minute you get preachy is the minute your little satire souffl falls.
Movies
1.5
An American Carol, David Zuckers mirthless conservative rally guised as an update on Charles Dickens classic Christmas tale, hits a new low.
Boston Herald
0.6
There isnt a laugh to be earned in all 83 minutesnot oneand that even covers the scene where Leslie Nielsen (2008s Superhero Movie ), doing double dut ..
The Movie Boy
2.5
Given that this supremely silly satire directed by The Naked Guns David Zucker plays more like something slapped together to beat an expiration date, ..
Calendar Live
1.0
What could have been an amusing riff looks more like a propaganda film out to destroy Moore rather than spoof him.
Hollywood
3.0
Its neat to see a movie from another point of view... Still, the movie has a message, and that message gets in the way of the comedy at least half of ..
7M Pictures
0.0
Panned in Cannes, Blindness has since lost a reportedly ponderous voice over spoken by Danny Glover, who appears as a sagely old man with a none too s ..
La Weekly
0.0
Poor (0 stars) PG 13 for profanity, drug use, irreverent humor and crude content.
News Blaze
4.5
A liberal witch hunt in court jester clothing, and in your face politics presumably to coincide with the election, while certain to have Charles Dicke ..
News Blaze
0.5
Shhh, dont tell Zucker, but I dont think Hitler is funny anymore.
Brian Or Ndorf
1.0
You could strip every last marginally political idea from the movie, and it would still probably be one of the most grueling, unfunny things released ..
Antagony & Ecstasy
0.0
How dumb does Hollywood think American conservatives are Not half as dumb as conservative filmmaker David Zucker thinks they are.
Sltrib
3.8
The message portion of the script has more than a few heavy handed but entertaining moments (like mindless ACLU zombies mobbing a courthouse to tear d ..
Movie Crypt
4.5
But the mean spirit of Zuckers satire hardly jibes with the liberal spirits of the original tale.
Entertainment Time
4.5
It often takes mockery and even silliness to make one see the best and worst of a situation or themselves or just have to have some fun and it always ..
0.6
Forget politics: An American Carol sucks simply because its ridiculously, painfully unfunny.
Aisle Seat
1.3
Using sledgehammer gags in the service of a dissent bashing tale, Zucker aims for the flag waving brio of Warner Bros. cartoons during World War II, b ..
Boston Phoenix
1.0
Its a polemic, a screed, a combination comic rant and sentimental flag waver that doesnt work as either.
Orlando Sentinel
1.5
Thats not to say that American Carol doesnt have a couple of uproariously hilarious moments.
World Wng
0.5
It is hard to believe that a comedy this singularly inept and downright unfunny came from one of the minds behind one of the funniest comedies of all ..
Cinematical
2.5
An American Carol dares to mock the Left, but it forgets to bring the funny.
Washington Times
3.8
The right should follow Zuckers lead engage its liberal opposition with humor rather than the crass protests and attempts at bans usually flung at Moo ..
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