An American Carol
Headline: ** Poking Fun at the Left **
Title: AN AMERICAN CAROL
Quality: * * * Acceptability: -2
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: LLL
Violence: VV
Sex: S
Nudity: None
RATING: PG-13
RELEASE: October 3, 2008
TIME: 83 minutes
STARRING: Kevin Farley, Kelsey Grammer, Leslie Neilsen, Trace Adkins, Robert Davi, Dennis Hopper, James Woods, Geoffrey Arend, Serdar Kalsin, Jon Voight, Chriss Anglin, and Bill O'Reilly
DIRECTOR: David Zucker
PRODUCERS: David Zucker, Stephen McEveety and John Shepherd
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Myrna Sokoloff
WRITERS: David Zucker, Myrna Sokoloff and Lewis Friedman
BASED ON THE NOVEL/PLAY BY: N/A
DISTRIBUTOR: Vivendi Entertainment
CONTENT: (BB, PPP, ACAC, C, Pa, Ho, O, LLL, VV, S, N, A, DD, M) Strong moral worldview with very strong pro-American and strong anti-Communist content celebrating the USA and its history and military forces, plus some light Christian references to churches and faith and positive references to God, set in a comical context, but with an irreverent tone that includes some vulgarities, including sexual jokes, a few with homosexual references, plus man sees and talks with three ghosts but this could be a dream or a vision within an unbelievable story being told by a crazy grandfather to his grandchildren; about 30 obscenities (including about three in the mouths of children), one strong profanity by a Muslim terrorist and nine light profanities, plus several obscene gestures; some strong comical violence with some blood when people shoot and kill liberal zombies, plus a lot of light slapstick violence; a group of men in uniform line up outside of a woman's house, implying that she is sexually promiscuous with such men, plus passionate kissing and some other sexual jokes, including a few with homosexual content; upper and rear male nudity in two scenes; alcohol use; no smoking but some brief drug references in a comical setting; and, lying and some poking fun at people's handicaps.
GENRE: Comedy
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Teenagers and adults
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SUMMARY: AN AMERICAN CAROL, a political spoof, takes on the liberal establishment with a crazy story about a left-wing filmmaker visited by four spirits, who try to show him the error of his ways. AMERICAN CAROL has some very funny moments, but there is plenty of crude foul language that warrants extreme caution.
IN BRIEF:
AN AMERICAN CAROL takes on the liberal establishment by targeting leftwing filmmaker Michael Moore's propaganda documentaries. Kevin Farley plays Michael Malone, a left-wing documentary filmmaker. Malone is leading a movement to abolish the Fourth of July. A Muslim terrorist and his two henchmen offer to finance a fiction movie Malone wants to make, titled FASCIST AMERICA. One night, President John F. Kennedy walks through Malone's TV set. He tells Malone that three spirits will visit him, to show him what a great country the United States really is. The first spirit to visit Malone is General George S. Patton.
Like many spoofs, AMERICAN CAROL is hit-and-miss, but it is still very entertaining and funny to see liberals and leftists being skewered for a change. Besides crazy comedy, the movie has stirring patriotic moments, as well as some positive references to God. Farley does a good job carrying the movie, and Kelsey Grammer is very amusing as Gen. Patton. The movie contains plenty of foul language, however, and some irreverent sexual references, including a few homosexual jokes. Therefore, MOVIEGUIDE® advises strong caution. This is not a movie for susceptible children - young or old.
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