An American Carol (2008)

From one of the three Airplane! guys comes this spoof variant on Dickens A Christmas Carol, only here the ‘scrooge’ character is a caricature of Michael Moore who hates the 4th of July. Featuring a lot of ‘hit in the face’ humor (none of which is funny), and cameos from a number of Hollywood’s best known Republican actors (when did Dennis Hooper become a Republican?), this is an ambling film, likable enough in tone, though obviously simplistic in its politics (though a lot of its history’s surprisingly good). More mildly amusing at parts then funny, flat material such as Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo singing Kumba, and a terrorist cell made up almost entirely of men named Mohammad Hussain, elevate David Allen Greer’s cameo as a slave to the statues of movie high point. The whole thing seems four years out of date. 2 out of 5.