Friday Afternoon Videos: AN AMERICAN CAROL trailer

August 15th, 2008 at 03:52pm Will Pfeifer

Whether you agree with the politics behind this film (and frankly, I don’t), this looks bad. Really bad. Yes, Jerry Zucker was one of the guys responsible for AIRPLANE! and THE NAKED GUN! (and, before that, KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE), but apparently the mighty have fallen. The jokes are nothing better than something you’d see on an old episode of AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS or one of those awful “parody” flicks Tinseltown keeps churning out, like EPIC MOVIE or MEET THE SPARTANS. There are funny guys out there with a conservative viewpoint — writer P.J. O’Rourke, for example – but apparently none of them were involved in this movie.

By the way, when this inevitably bombs and makes a quick trip to video, look for special guest star Bill O’Reilly to claim it’s all because of Hollywood’s all-poweful liberal conspiracy. You know, the same conspiracy that crushed the careers of conservatives like Bob Hope, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, John Wayne and Ronald Reagan. Too bad those guys were never able to get any work.

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