Quick DVD Review: An American Carol
January 28, 2009 by William K. Wolfrum
One of the final scenes of “An American Carol” involves a bunch of sick children falling off a Navy vessel to their deaths. And it wasn’t done as social commentary of George W. Bush’s veto of expanding SChip. It was done to tickle conservatives.
“An American Carol” is a terrible, terrible movie. And not in the way that “Con Air” and “Red Dawn” are terrible. It’s terrible in the way a snuff film is terrible. If Charles Dickens knew that his classic “A Christmas Carol” would have been used in such a way, he would have become a house painter.
At the very least, “An American Carol” gives the initiated a view into the humorless, stupid, history-revising radical conservative mindset. It’s a mindset that finds killing sick children funny. “An American Carol” is the perfect final chapter for the Bush years. It’s sloppy, unfunny, based on lies and killing people and something we can only hope this planet never has to endure again.
–WKW
And let’s not forget the lovely cameo by Bill O’Reilly. And the fact that Chris Farley’s allergic-to-funny brother was the star. It’s not like the difference between John and Jim Belushi. It’s more like the difference between John Belushi and a small pile of rocks.
Red Dawn was bad? – wait -
You know, I’m not going to do what I would normally do, which would be to allude to several corn ball 80′s movies…No, I’m going a different route this time.
Which do you think is worse, ‘An American Carol’, or the recent Ben Stein movie? The recent Ben Stein movie has to be incredibly idiotic, but I doubt we’ll ever know because I seriously doubt anyone has ever seen it, nor could I foresee a situation in which anyone, anywhere, anytime in the next 40-50 years could find a couple of hours to intentionally dedicate to watching this movie.
Stay gold pony boy.