Film Review: An American Carol

Liberal? Conservative? Our nation has been split in two; a gangland of citizens who love to bicker over political minutiae, choosing sides with the sort of venom typically reserved for pro wrestling or the finer points of KISStory. However, I think our brittle populace can all agree on one thing: the searing, unyielding pain of an atrocious comedy. “An American Carol” is such a beast, hoping to be the first Conservative-angled production to break free from assured ridicule and enjoy a rich box office life, yet comes staggering to the screen crippled with an absurd agenda, farcical impotence, and necrotic taste in comedic targets.

Michael Malone (Kevin Farley) is a left-wing documentary filmmaker with a healthy appetite for anti-American liberal stunts and an even bigger interest in junk food. Trying to make the ultimate confrontational statement, Malone is campaigning to abolish the Fourth of July on grounds that it represents disgraceful American warmongering values. This traitorous act perks the interest of the Taliban (including Robert Davi and Geoffrey Arend), who want to finance Malone’s protest in an effort to blow up Madison Square Garden. Sent from the heavens to stop Malone are three ghosts: George Washington (Jon Voight), General Patton (Kelsey Grammer), and the Angel of Death (Trace Adkins). Trying to change Malone’s mind about America, the spirits take the blustery boob on a journey through history, reminding the documentarian what the country has suffered through and what it stands for today.

Director David Zucker is best known as one of the pioneers of the modern parody film, a mastermind behind the likes of “Airplane!” and “The Naked Gun.” “American Carol” is Zucker’s valentine to the Conservative movement and structured much like the comedies he’s known for. It’s a Looney Tunes-style farce, hitting the viewer over the head with a blitz of slapstick and sight gags, rarely pausing for a breath. Traditionally, this concentration of speed is a welcome addition to nonsense, yet, for “Carol,” it’s in service of monumental filmmaking gracelessness and disingenuous intent.

Fearing Liberal Hollywood has been telling their side of the American story for too long, Zucker and his writing staff strive to offer their own take on the Michael Moores of the world, and how these undignified souls are sullying the U.S.A. Moore is such an easy target (and one that’s been done to death), but familiarity fails to restrain Zucker, who doesn’t just satire Moore’s broad political stance, but unsheathes a machete and symbolically severs his head. Malone is an obese, military-hating, unwashed bastard who claims vague cultural victory when his movies clean up awards, yet longs to direct a fictional feature. Everyone hates him, he’s never two steps away from a Twinkie, and he’s receptive to monetary offers from terrorists. It’s a cartoon depiction of Moore, performed by Farley (doing his best Jim Belushi impression) through a series of quadruple-chinnings and multiple fall-down-and-go-booms. It’s not quite the evisceration Zucker is aiming for, undermined by the staleness of the target and the unnerving idiocy of the writing. Get it? Moore likes to eat! He hates America because he criticizes it!

Zucker doesn’t stop at Moore/Malone for pointed mockery, “Carol” also tackles loathsome American poxes such as college educations (the damn hippies are indoctrinating your kids, people!), exercising constitutional rights, and questioning leadership. The horror. The ACLU also gets a spanking (imagined as zombies enabling terrorists), along with those wacky goofballs, the suicide bombers. “Carol” rides the fine edge of taste for most of its running time, with the director relying on Hitler and concentration camp jokes to show that he’s capable of ribbing anything, not just liberals. Shhh, don’t tell Zucker, but I don’t think Hitler is funny anymore. That’s just me.

“Carol” is created with a specific agenda to support the American armed forces, using the Washington and Patton characters (along with John Kennedy) to remain the audience that diplomacy is second only to a strong military hand. The ghosts show Malone (in full “Christmas Carol” fashion) the results of an America without the sacrifice of war, exploring how slavery still exists and visiting a nuked Detroit. Of course, with “Carol” being a zany comedy and all, there’s even a sobering moment spent at the smoldering ruins of 9/11, punctuated with Malone’s head pinballing between two gigantic bells. Shhh, don’t tell Zucker, but I don’t think 9/11 is funny anymore.

Besides, of all filmmakers in the world to beat Zucker to the terrorist comedy punch, Uwe Boll danced the same tasteless tango earlier this year with the blindingly awful “Postal.”

“Carol” can whine about Moore all it wants, but I’ll take “Canadian Bacon” over this trainwreck any day of the week. Perhaps made with the best intentions to honor the nation and those who choose to fight for our freedom, “An American Carol” instead reinforces how needlessly divisive our country has become. Certainly there’s a better way to say “Yay America!” than this lousy, hopeless movie, easily one of the worst films of the year.

F

Comments

[Citizen Grim]

What movie did you see? Malone was clearly the protagonist in this film. He was never portrayed as evil, just misguided. (Contrast this to the standard Hollywood fare, where the conservatives are always motivated by malice.)

Did you even watch the film before writing this review, or did you already know what you were going to write anyway?

[Mallard T. Drake]

**...with the director relying on Hitler and concentration camp jokes to show that he’s capable of ribbing anything, not just liberals. ***

Learn your history. The National Socialists were a left wing,liberal collectivist movement. Much of their party platform would fit with the Democrat party today. Zucker was still making fun of liberals.

The 25 point Program of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) was proclaimed by Adolf Hitler at a large party gathering in Munich on February 24, 1920 when the group was still known as the German Workers Party.

The full text of the 25 point program:
1. We demand the unification of all Germans in the Greater Germany on the basis of the right of self-determination of people.

2. We demand equality of rights for the German people in respect to the other nations; abrogation of the peace treaties of Versailles and St. Germain.

3. We demand land and territory (colonies) for the sustenance of our people, and colonization for our surplus population.

4. Only a member of the race can be a citizen. A member of the race can only be one who is of German blood, without consideration of creed. Consequently no Jew can be a member of the race.

5. Whoever has no citizenship is to be able to live in Germany only as a guest, and must be under the authority of legislation for foreigners.

6. The right to determine matters concerning administration and law belongs only to the citizen. Therefore we demand that every public office, of any sort whatsoever, whether in the Reich, the county or municipality, be filled only by citizens. We combat the corrupting parliamentary economy, office-holding only according to party inclinations without consideration of character or abilities.

7. We demand that the state be charged first with providing the opportunity for a livelihood and way of life for the citizens. If it is impossible to sustain the total population of the State, then the members of foreign nations (non-citizens) are to be expelled from the Reich.

8. Any further immigration of non-citizens is to be prevented. We demand that all non-Germans, who have immigrated to Germany since the [2 August 1914], be forced immediately to leave the Reich.

9. All citizens must have equal rights and obligations.

10. The first obligation of every citizen must be to work both spiritually and physically. The activity of individuals is not to counteract the interests of the universality, but must have its result within the framework of the whole for the benefit of all Consequently we demand:

11. Abolition of unearned (work and labour) incomes. Breaking of rent-slavery.

12. In consideration of the monstrous sacrifice in property and blood that each war demands of the people personal enrichment through a war must be designated as a crime against the people. Therefore we demand the total confiscation of all war profits.

13. We demand the nationalisation of all (previous) associated industries (trusts).

14. We demand a division of profits of all heavy industries.

15. We demand an expansion on a large scale of old age welfare.

16. We demand the creation of a healthy middle class and its conservation, immediate communalization of the great warehouses and their being leased at low cost to small firms, the utmost consideration of all small firms in contracts with the State, county or municipality.

17. We demand a land reform suitable to our needs, provision of a law for the free expropriation of land for the purposes of public utility, abolition of taxes on land and prevention of all speculation in land.

18. We demand struggle without consideration against those whose activity is injurious to the general interest. Common national criminals, usurers, Schieber and so forth are to be punished with death, without consideration of confession or race.

19. We demand substitution of a German common law in place of the Roman Law serving a materialistic world-order.

20. The state is to be responsible for a fundamental reconstruction of our whole national education program, to enable every capable and industrious German to obtain higher education and subsequently introduction into leading positions. The plans of instruction of all educational institutions are to conform with the experiences of practical life. The comprehension of the concept of the State must be striven for by the school [Staatsbuergerkunde] as early as the beginning of understanding. We demand the education at the expense of the State of outstanding intellectually gifted children of poor parents without consideration of position or profession.

21. The State is to care for the elevating national health by protecting the mother and child, by outlawing child-labor, by the encouragement of physical fitness, by means of the legal establishment of a gymnastic and sport obligation, by the utmost support of all organizations concerned with the physical instruction of the young.

22. We demand abolition of the mercenary troops and formation of a national army.

23. We demand legal opposition to known lies and their promulgation through the press. In order to enable the provision of a German press, we demand, that: a. All writers and employees of the newspapers appearing in the German language be members of the race: b. Non-German newspapers be required to have the express permission of the State to be published. They may not be printed in the German language: c. Non-Germans are forbidden by law any financial interest in German publications, or any influence on them, and as punishment for violations the closing of such a publication as well as the immediate expulsion from the Reich of the non-German concerned. Publications which are counter to the general good are to be forbidden. We demand legal prosecution of artistic and literary forms which exert a destructive influence on our national life, and the closure of organizations opposing the above made demands.

24. We demand freedom of religion for all religious denominations within the state so long as they do not endanger its existence or oppose the moral senses of the Germanic race. The Party as such advocates the standpoint of a positive Christianity without binding itself confessionally to any one denomination. It combats the Jewish-materialistic spirit within and around us, and is convinced that a lasting recovery of our nation can only succeed from within on the framework: The good of the state before the good of the individual.

25. For the execution of all of this we demand the formation of a strong central power in the Reich. Unlimited authority of the central parliament over the whole Reich and its organizations in general. The forming of state and profession chambers for the execution of the laws made by the Reich within the various states of the confederation. The leaders of the Party promise, if necessary by sacrificing their own lives, to support by the execution of the points set forth above without consideration.

[Bill]

Your review reveals which side of the political debate you're on. It also reveals you write really crappy reviews.

Why is it Okay for the Left to crank out truly bad anti-American movies (that routinely get rave reviews despite their not-even-thinly-veiled political agenda), but not Okay for someone on the Right to release a movie that skewers said movies?

Your review reviews nothing about the content of the movie -- the acting, directing, humor, script...nothing. It's as if you didn't even watch the movie!

[Bill's Mother]

I think Bill needs glasses, or a brain.

"Your review reviews nothing about the content of the movie"

BRIAN SPENT 800 WORDS EXPLAINING THE AWFUL HUMOR IN THE FILM, FARTNUTS MC GEE aka "Bill."

This is why we need abortion - to cleanse the word of future conservatives.

What a douche. I bet all the neg comments are coming from one guy.

[Cassandra Donnelly]

"Why is it Okay for the Left to crank out truly bad anti-American movies"

Name some, please. Can anyone name one authentically anti-American film? And not just ones that question American politics (ya know, an American right!), but the truly hateful stuff that right-wingers always cry about.

Go ahead! Name away.

[Rich]

The comments about this film reveal what is wrong with the political landscape today. If a film is bad, and doesn't work, it should be exposed as such. One shouldn't base their opinion of entertainment based upon a political perspective. This means that writing comments saying a review is flawed because you disagree with the reviewer's political beliefs, and want the film to do well, for political reasons. I saw the same type of talk around the Half Hour News Hour, which had Dennis Miller no anchoring, but being an angry old commentator.

This being said, some of the clips did look funny I saw of them.

[Richard Branson]

Mallard T. Drake: missing the point of the review and the planet Earth since 1954.

[Margaret Evans]

"Why is it Okay for the Left to crank out truly bad anti-American movies (that routinely get rave reviews despite their not-even-thinly-veiled political agenda), but not Okay for someone on the Right to release a movie that skewers said movies?"

Posted by: Bill | October 03, 2008 at 01:10 PM

Good question, Bill. And the answer, of course, is that modern liberalism has so stealthily and insidiously infiltrated the culture at large (via Hollywood, the MSM, academia, etc) that it's now the "common wisdom" among the educated and even the UNeducated. It's the very air we breathe. And most people don't like to think too hard, and they certainly don't like to bother with trivial stuff like history or philosophy, so they just keep breathing the air (or drinking the kool-aid, if you will), because it's so much easier. Who knows if this movie's any good? It sounds fairly silly to me, but may well be brilliant. The truth is, you'll have to go see for yourself, because it'll be almost impossible to get an unbiased review from a contemporary film critic. Most of them are positively incapable of it. (In their defense, I don't believe they KNOW they're incapable of it! I assume they try.)

Good movie, bad movie, whatever... three cheers for Zucker and his fearless band of players. All these Hollywood artists love to talk about "speaking truth to power" with their anti-American films. But in America, artists are FREE. The government has no power over them whatsoever. (The only entity that wields power over them is the film industry, which is ruthless in its treatment of conservatives.) So, these self-proclaimed "free thinking rebels" are, in reality, merely preaching to the choir... kissing the hand that feeds them. Zucker and Co, though... they're BITING the hand that feeds them... risking everything to put their perspective out there. That's the REAL definition of speaking truth to power. I hope they have great success, but even if they flop, good on 'em!

[Bill's Mother's Mother]

Wow- This is one reason I will never be one of those tolerant Liberals I always here exist..
"This is why we need abortion - to cleanse the word of future conservatives."

You are a real piece of work for a comment like that.. abortion usually is a type of punchline to Anti-American liberals... and is like I always believed is used as type of birth control because personal responsibility is not in your vocabulary... You hate me I hate you.. blah blah but I hope you really rot for a comment like that asshole.

[Bill's Mother's Mother's Mother]

My vagina hurts.

[Student]

The Nazis wanted all the money. They didn't care about why, or philosophy. "Ostara" is no Karl Marx. These were closer to Communists than Socialists, with all their power concentrated at the top. They didn't have any philosophy to justify their thieving. They just took it. So deep in bed with the weapons makers, they are really more Capitalist even than Communist. You can tell because they bought weapons and made threats before making concentration camps, even though their big excuse for everything was "purification" from Jews. I know it looks a little socialist because they took that name, but it was popular, cause the Russians kicked the Czars out with it. If they were not capitalists, they would have spilled into the streets to build those camps. Instead, they held parades of weps.

[Sherman Leary]

"modern liberalism has so stealthily and insidiously infiltrated the culture at large (via Hollywood, the MSM, academia, etc) that it's now the "common wisdom" among the educated and even the UNeducated."

Hold on, lemme get my tinfoil hat and a copy of the bible.

[Adam Huddleston]

Thank you for writing this, man. Well put.

[ZZT]

I have to concur with this review. I'm all for making fun of anyone left or right, as long as it is funny. Team America: World Police was at least amusing.

An American Carol is just poor filmmaking. David Zucker has done some good comedies, Airplane, Top Secret, Ruthless People. But this isn't one of them.

[Henry Behuler]

Team America is a classic.

This movie, which I watched this morning in an empty theater (my 7 dollar ticket price actually going to Flash of Genius), is caca.

Bravo, Brian. Don't let the dipshits bring you down.

[Dave Elswick]

Guess my main complaint with your review is simple. The left has been making fun of the right for YEARS. Never is it said that they were trying to drive a wedge in America (I guess the right deserves to be parodied and beat on). However the right does a film that makes fun of the left and good God we're trying to destroy political discourse. It's what makes the review crap.

[Lol]

Let the liberals have their abortions and gay marriages. Their society won't survive long.

BTW "bill's mother", any child aborted will be a liberal child dontcha think? Ass.

[Dave Elswick's Male Lover, Lance]

"BTW "bill's mother", any child aborted will be a liberal child dontcha think?"

Not with conservative slime raping their own children nightly to sate their empty souls. That shit adds up. Ask Palin.

[Thom York]

"Name some, please." OK...

This is the short, short list. All are liberal in their viewpoint and complete tripe...

Dead Man Walking (Muderers have souls too!)
The American President
Bob Roberts (Evil Conservative pretends to be Liberal)
Waterworld (Liberal Armageddon)
China Syndrome (created politically charged hysteria leading to our current energy problems)
Fahrenheit 911 (talking about being divisive)
Apocalypse Now (anti-military)
JKF (anti-establishment)
American Beauty (suburbia is a lie, no one is truly happy)
John Q (perpetuating the myth that the US has the world's worst health care system, all to gain political power)
The Last Supper (no comment)
Crash (everyone's a racist!!!)
Slacker Uprising (shut the repubs up! No free speech for you!)
Bulworth (seriously?)
An Inconvenient Truth (slide show about a movie about made up stuff)

[Amanda Browner]

None of those movies hate America. The question was clear: find a movie that HATES AMERICA.

[Billy X]

Neocons need to chill the fuck out and let people have opinions.

The movie is awful, and no amountof finger pointing is going to change that.

[Rami]

"None of those movies hate America. The question was clear: find a movie that HATES AMERICA."

It doesn't have to be a movie that hates America to be divisive and un-American.

[Kenny]

Rami, sit down you moron.

The very fact that there are movies that can speak their minds is American. No movie is anti, un, or con America. Case closed. You will never find one.

I can't believe someone write CRASH as an example too...what a fool.

Now can we get off this subject and go back to how awful this movie is? Sheesh...

[Margaret Evans]

"Hold on, lemme get my tinfoil hat and a copy of the bible."

Posted by: Sherman Leary | October 03, 2008 at 02:28 PM

Perfect! Sherman, you give the quintessential liberal response. No logical argument, no intelligent engagement. Just a sneering cyber eye-roll, a reference to tinfoil, and a joke about the Bible. Gee, you really put me in my place.

[Kris]

Wow, these comments are amazing.

I don't know why people think it's so bad for you to call this movie an unfunny failure. Everyone knows Zucker hit his comedic peak in the '80s and hasn't produced anything worth seeing since. That applies regardless of your political views.

[Sherman Leary]

"Perfect! Sherman, you give the quintessential liberal response. No logical argument, no intelligent engagement. Just a sneering cyber eye-roll, a reference to tinfoil, and a joke about the Bible. Gee, you really put me in my place."

Frankly, you haven't earned the attention. Typical conservative ego, "MY OPINION IS GOD!" "YOU CAN'T FIGHT ME"

Blah, blah. Go suck a lemon.

[Dave Elswick's Male Lover-Lance's Wetnurse]

Mazal tov!!

[D Lincoln]

"...Farley (doing his best Jim Belushi impression)..."
That's funny shit right there.

[Jeff]

Clearly the republican/conservative hate anyone that thinks differently than themselves needs to get a reality check. Nazis were not of the left they were of the right big time. Hitler hated communism and thought it should be whiped off the map. Do your research neocons.

[Sean]

Conservatives have long accused liberals of not having a sense of humor to defend...bad humor. My God, some of the worst jokes I've ever heard were during the Clinton years. It had nothing to do with partisanship.

Many people above have pointed out that World Team America skewered both the left and the right and was downright clever in doing so. Zucker ripped off Parker and Stone, who satired Moore five years ago.

The truth is, most liberals will willingly admit that they enjoyed the satire of liberals in WTA because it was well done. However, there seem to be few conservatives who are willing to poke fun at themselves.

Hollywood can make liberal crap, but Dr. Strangelove is still a masterpiece that can't be explained away by talking points.

[Poppy]

Thanks to this review, I'm going to see the movie twice.

Way to go, Orndork!

[thwap]

Good review. You clearly and comprehensively showed why this movie is stilted, incoherent, unfunny garbage.

It's terrifying though, these total morons who can't even grasp the meaning of simple words put before them. People who think that movies critical of some aspect of America are "anti-American." Meanwhile, they shit all over their own Constitution, or cheer as bush II does it.

Why, my gosh! They're as stupid as the people who made this piece of shit movie!

Bill's mother's, mother's mother: I think you can get some cream for that painfully stretched vagina.

[Gary Sinise & Friends Of Adolph]

If this right-wing version of a bad Saturday Night Live sketch that runs too long is so daringly bold, why wasn't it screened for movie critics, instead of dumped in a few theaters for reviews? Because even its producers know they made a boxoffice poison dud with a resounding thud. The weekend boxoffice, not controlled by liberals, speaks louder than any review of An American Carol. I doubt this paranoid conservative fantasy will even make the top-ten boxoffice list during its brief run wasting screen space at the multiplex run. It should have been released straight to DVD where it belongs. How many of you people defending this film will actually go pay money to see it with the economy a complete bust this weekend? Very, very few as Zucker's Folly won't even make its production costs back. Maybe Zucker is figuring like Mel Brooks' The Producers in making a comedy so awful that he will make a profit by writing it off as a complete boxoffice bailout for a tax break from his best bud President Bush.

[orwell46]

I have seen the movie. It's very funny.

[Flipper baby]

Why can't the conservative movement make a movie that DOESN'T involve investigation/lampoon of Michael Moore?

Why is it always that guy? And why are people upset with this review when it's very accurate?

[I Art Laughing]

This just goes to show that liberals don't really have a sense of humor. Absolutely no introspection (or circumspection either).

anti-American: Lions for Lambs, Harold and Kumar Escape from Gitmo, Sicko, Bowling for Columbine, The Bourne Supremacy.......

A Hollywood movie is not complete these days without at least one anti-American riff. It's so pervasive that liberals can actually believe that reality "has a liberal bent".

Where is Senator McCarthy when you need him? He'd show you red-diaper-doper babies what being a conservative really meant, and you'd think Palin was such a progressive you'd be hugging her leg.

[Blank Frank]

"Thanks to this review, I'm going to see the movie twice.

Way to go, Orndork!

Posted by: Poppy | October 03, 2008 at 09:07 PM"

Does that mean that if I could get Brian to write an F-minus-minus review of "Baby Geniuses", you'd sit through it...I dunno, ten times?

[mrsinatra]

dopey review.

it IS a funny movie. it spoofs the left. and that liberals react like this just goes to show they don't have a sense of humor.

go watch tina fey some more you pansy.

[Bjones]

Someone mentioned the "conservative movement".
This country was founded on the values that conservatives adhere to today. Hence the moniker CONSERVatives. The "movement" has been toward moving away from these intrinsic values that this country has fought for time and again. That's the liberal agenda....to weaken or destroy these values such as...self-reliance and courage. They want to take away the choice we all have to either succeed or fail. For liberals...if you fail...it's not your fault...and not to worry...we'll just take from the ones who work hard to succeed and give a big chunk of it to you. Liberals can't stand for anyone to be more successful than anyone else. No child is allowed to fail, everyone is special, it's not your fault, it's society's fault...it takes a village....blah...blah...blah. Give me a break. This is a land of opportunity...NOT guaranteed success. The opportunity is there for ANYONE who works hard enough. The middle class are middle class because they didn't take advantage of these same opportunities as the wealthy. And, by the way, I run a machine in a mill for 10 hours a day which puts me right there in the blue collar middle class. I don't have as much as the "wealthy", but I could have if I had CHOSEN a different path. I don't whine about it and think that the wealthy should give there money to be. Also, I will pay for my daughter's college education, NOT the government...Obama can kiss my butt !

[Tim]

It was a funny movie- I agree that who ever wrote this article must not have saw the movie- even in the most left slanted movies, that I have seen , there is good acting going on- Davi is excellent in the movie and there are many laugh out loud moments.
Solid B.

[thebrutesquad]

In reference to "name one anti-american" film. How about Lions for Lambs, Rendition, any Michael Moore movie. The point being is (I won't like a liberal resort to name calling) that anyone with common sense can see that Hollywood makes movies ripping on what's wrong with America. Is it too difficult to make a movie that points out what is right with America. It seems to me those movies with John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, and the like did pretty well. Of course, I'm not a Socialist so I do tend to like this country.

[Nate]

Calm down. Being critical of the policies of the Bush administration _is not_ the same as being "anti-American".

Hell, even being critical of certain norms within American culture isn't anywhere near being "anti-American".

[PaulG]

Wow, it seems common sense is an Oxymoron! You neocons would defend a genital wort if it was on Sarah Palin's Penis. You're the ones that love censuring art you find tasteless- well this film is truely tasteless. Maybe you can bring it to your next book burning.

[J-Dub]

Patriotism does not equal Blind allegiance.
Just because a movie speaks out against what our leaders are doing does not make it anti-America.

[btjones]

What, exactly is "American" to a liberal?

let me guess...

...an allegiance to the phrase,

"What can you do for me?"

[Guy who sat to our right (!) at the midnight showing]

I liked the part where they slapped the guy.

[David]

Nice movie for the professional wrestling, Fox Noise, country music crowd... that's obviously their target audience.

As expected, it is corny and unfunny to anyone left of Hitler.

Reich wing humor is always a major FAIL.

Fox Noise's "The 1/2 Hour News Hour"?
Denis Miller?

How'd that unfunny garbage turn out?

At the end of the movie, America becomes a fascist police state own and operated by Exxon Mobile, Raytheon Defense Industries and Walmart.

[Cancer man]

Pixar sucks, Rodney.

[Auguste]

In reference to "name one anti-american" film. How about Lions for Lambs, Rendition, any Michael Moore movie.

I haven't seen Lions for Lambs, but Rendition and Michael Moore movies are not anti-american. Not in the slightest. Anti-administration policy, pro-worker, pro-health care is not anti-american.

[JerodL7]

"Carol” also tackles loathsome American poxes such as ... exercising constitutional rights..."

What the fuck is this supposed to mean? Just because war protesters (I assume that's the scene you mean) are "exercising constitutional rights" means they're above criticism?! David Zucker was exercising his "constitutional rights" when he made this movie, so I guess you shouldn't be criticizing him, according to your douchebag logic.

Try critiquing movies based on their merits, moron, not on whether you agree or disagree with their politics.