An American Carol (2008)
God loves America. This is an undisputed fact. At least, if you’re American. God is good. Santa is good. Santa therefore also loves America. Quite obvious really. erom rof uoy Michael Moore does not love America. At least, not if you’re a neo-Conservative, Tea Party member or card-carrying Republican. Santa therefore does not love Michael Moore. Michael Moore is Scrooge.
Thus runs the rather skewed and partisan logic that leads to the premise of this particular Christmas turkey, where a miser, thinly disguised but clearly based on the maverick film-maker and scourge of presidents of the USA since 2001, is taught the meaning of Christmas. Take it away, IMDB!
An anti-American filmmaker who's out to abolish the July Fourth holiday is visited by three ghosts who try to change his perception of the country.
Rather surprisingly, this is written by one of the Zuckers, who brought us such comedy classics as “Airplane!” and “The naked gun”, and hosts some heavy hitters, including Dennis Hopper, Leslie Nielsen (no real surprise there), Kevin Sorbo and … Kelsey Grammer? Surely he didn’t need the money? Or the screentime? Also poking their noses in to deliver the Word according to Bush and Reagan are country superstar Trace Adkins (yeah), Jon Voight and James Woods. Oh, and Paris Hilton, as if anyone cared.
What's even weirder though is that although this is basically marketed as a Christmas movie (as if you couldn't tell from the title or the Scroogeisms) they use Independence Day as the holiday Micheal Moore, sorry, the protagonist wants to abolish. Why? Cos Christmas ain't American enough? Ah, God bless 'em, huh? Makes you sort of thankful for Obama, no?
