It fails. Miserably.

| Original Score: 0/4.0 | Sep 2, 2020

It often takes mockery and even silliness to make one see the best and worst of a situation or themselves or just have to have some fun and it always seems to be funnier when done on film and by David Zucker.

| Nov 6, 2019

The mean spirit of Zucker's satire hardly jibes with the liberal spirits of the original tale.

| Nov 29, 2018

American Carol is [Zucker's] first attempt to merge his newfound worldview with his work. Unfortunately, he swings at so many progressive targets, the punches he does land aren't backed by enough force.

| Oct 10, 2018

You could strip every last marginally political idea from the movie, and it would still probably be one of the most grueling, unfunny things released that year.

| Original Score: 2/10 | May 5, 2011

It is hard to believe that a comedy this singularly inept and downright unfunny came from one of the minds behind one of the funniest comedies of all time, Airplane!.

| Dec 17, 2009

Kada vi%u0161e potrebe za Michaelom Mooreom ne bude, potrebe za filmovima koje tog istog Moorea parodiraju bit %u0107e jo%u0161 manje.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 14, 2009

Using sledgehammer gags in the service of a dissent-bashing tale, Zucker aims for the flag-waving brio of Warner Bros. cartoons during World War II, but he succeeds only in ruining Farley's big break.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 23, 2009

just too insular to be engaging

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 31, 2008

What could have been an amusing riff looks more like a propaganda film out to destroy Moore rather than spoof him.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 20, 2008

The gags come fast and furiously with one-liners to make the case that liberals don't have exclusive rights to humor in Hollywood.

| Original Score: B | Nov 15, 2008

... the jokes are lame and the caricatures too removed from any defensible reality.

Full Review | Nov 12, 2008

An American Carol dares to mock the Left, but it forgets to bring the funny.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 31, 2008

Zucker's film reeks of a deeply insecure psychosis, one that's often insultingly mislabeled as patriotism -- which is how it gets away with wrapping itself in red, white and blue while simultaneously ridiculing our Bill Of Rights.

Full Review | Oct 29, 2008

Nice try, but I'd watch Airplane! again first.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 18, 2008

This movie is seriously unfunny, and it's not just my admittedly left-wing politics that are in the way of my getting the joke.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Oct 18, 2008

An American Carol, David Zucker's mirthless conservative rally guised as an update on Charles Dickens' classic Christmas tale, hits a new low.

| Original Score: D | Oct 18, 2008

Overall, Zucker's cinematic middle finger is about as funny as an exploding toilet seat for hemorrhoid-induced senior citizens...a dreary picture mired in sophomoric sludge.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 14, 2008

Utterly asinine, sophomoric, tasteless, the movie has much in common with Zucker's Airplane!, The Naked Gun 2 1/2 and Scary Movie sequels, minus the laughs.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 13, 2008

...too unfocused and ill-disciplined to work either as Dickens pastiche or as political satire.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 10, 2008