LAUGH LIKE YOUR COUNTRY DEPENDS ON IT.
As America-bashing documentary filmmaker Michael Malone (Kevin Farley) is preparing a campaign to have July 4th abolished as a holiday, he is visited by the ghost of John F. Kennedy. From a right-winger’s point of view, this take on Dickens’s “Christmas Carol” is a clever idea executed as a Naked Gun-type spoof. However, the low quality of the jokes (as well as David Zucker’s flawed grasp of history) should make even righties squirm in their seats. At least Kelsey Grammer and Jon Voight avoid embarrassing themselves.
2008-U.S. 83 min. Color. Directed by David Zucker. Cast: Kevin Farley (Michael Malone), Kelsey Grammer (George Patton), Trace Adkins (Angel of Death), Robert Davi, Jon Voight, Chriss Anglin… Leslie Nielsen, Dennis Hopper, James Woods, Gary Coleman. Cameos: Bill O’Reilly, Paris Hilton.
Trivia: Alternative title: Big Fat Important Movie.
