Still, it is gratifying to come across a mainstream film that seems happy to risk offending so many different groups. And, best of all, Weitz bravely declines to chicken out and give us a cosy ending.

| Apr 1, 2019

Don't be offended, none of this really means anything, it's just a goof about a lot of dumb stuff going down around us.

| Apr 1, 2019

The film takes on more than it knows how to handle, and what starts out as a standard poke-in-the-eye of 온라인카지노추천 switches its satiric focus to the incompetence of terrorists and politicians, the heartlessness of celebs, and even the mess of Iraq.

| Apr 1, 2019

Begins really quite well, but ends with three zeds, not one.

| Apr 1, 2019

The director of American Pie has set out to make a merciless satire of American media culture along the lines of Network, but his ideas are so commonplace that nothing registers except the bile.

| Apr 1, 2019

Promising more bite than it delivers, Dreamz is pitched too broadly to get very deeply under your skin. Still, there are some smarts at work here, and it will make you laugh.

| Mar 15, 2018

[Director Paul Weitz] daringly explores various kinds of nihilism, comparing the self-obliterating nature of both extremism and fame.

| Sep 26, 2017

American Dreamz is mostly pretty feeble stuff.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 27, 2007

...Opting for a broad, light mood that's at complete odds with the darker potential of its political premise.

| Jun 24, 2006

... American Dreamz is kind of all over the place from the beginning.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 6, 2006

Subtlety and sincerity go out the window in favour of crass stereotypes and easy jibes...

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 6, 2006

It's not hard to make a biting satire about American politics. Nor is it particularly difficult to take a sideswipe at... Pop Idol and its ilk. Which is why it's disappointing that American Dreamz fails to get its teeth into either subject satisfactorily.

| May 6, 2006

Weitz's last film with Quaid was In Good Company... which knew exactly what it was aiming for and how to get there. This one, however, meanders around its multitude of targets, hits a couple, then loses its bearings completely.

| May 6, 2006

For all its misguided qualities, the movie is at least perfectly cast.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 6, 2006

A moderately engaging satire, some of it amusing and some of it strained, but in considerable measure it reflects a strange circumstance in all our lives.

| May 5, 2006

[A] satirically unbalanced in its attempted fusion of such varied targets as George Bush, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Muslim suicide bombers, and the hosts and contestants on American Idol.

Full Review | Apr 27, 2006

Great satires draw blood. American Dreamz barely nicks the surface.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 27, 2006

In the words of Simon, it's a complete and utter disaster.

Full Review | Apr 24, 2006

The Roman rulers used to distract the populace from the problems of corruption and decadence with "bread and circuses." Today's equivalent might be junk food and television, especially "reality" television.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Apr 22, 2006

[Paul] Weitz co-directed the wonderful About a Boy in 2002, but in Dreamz -- a tediously facile satire -- his comic instincts fail him.

| Apr 21, 2006