"An American Carol" a different Type of Comedy

Sitting in this movie theater waiting for this movie to begin I could not help thinking to myself, what will this movie bring. The previews set up some of the movie but, it leaves a little for imgination of what the plot could bring. Also after seeing the preview, I was not expecting much out of the movie. It looked like another farse comedy with Kevin Farley taking on a role, and attempting to be his brother. However when the movie ended, I found myself saying that it really wasn't that bad of a movie.

The movie was directed and written by David Zucker who penned the classic Airplane! and the two most recent installments of the Scary Movie franchise. It stars Kevin Farley, Kelsey Grammer, and cameos by Jon Voight and Dennis Hopper. The reason I call it a different type of comedy because it is really a right wing conservative comedy. The movie focuses on Farley who plays an obvious mock of Michael Moore, aptly named Michael Malone. It is basically a play on the famous Dickens story A Christmas Carol, however in this installment they are trying to get him to love America. The "Marley" of the story is actually JFK, his idle. The ghost that leads him most of the way is Grammer playing General George S. Patton.

So, the movie moves along with his nephew being a military man and wanting to invite him over for a barbeque on the fourth of July. I should also mention that Malone wants to end the Fourth of July. It has its moments where the humor gets a little risky( like placing the ACLU as flesh eating zombies) but, the humor carries and is actually very clever. But, the thing that impressed me the most was the ending to the movie. It brought the story full circle and had a great message about patriotism. Did I agree with everything in the movie, no. But, the message really hits home and especially at this time. It is a great patritic if sometimes extremely biased movie, but one that should be seen, because it really is a decent comedy.