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...Moore's also on TV a lot, including appearances on Keith Olbermann's and Bill Maher's shows last Friday. And it wouldn't be a year divisible by four if there weren't a movie out that attacks Moore. This time it's an intended comedy: An American Carol, from funny-silly (and this time funny-silly-angry) director David Zucker...
...American Carol...
...David Zucker, part of the Kentucky Fried Theater team (Jim Abrahams and Zucker's brother Jerry are the other two) who launched the Airplane!, Naked Gun and Hot Shots! franchises and took over and revived the Scary Movie series. Moore probably doesn't feel flattered, since An American Carol depicts its lead character, one Michael Malone, as a bumbling, politically myopic slob who gets swindled into a plot to blow up Madison Square Garden. But in offering Malone a re-education in "patriotism" and letting him survive the movie, it's nicer to Moore than the Trey Parker-Matt Stone...
...ghost of J.F.K.? Yes, this is an update of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Kennedy as Marley's Ghost. George S. Patton (Kelsey Grammer) is the Ghost of America Past, George Washington (Jon Voight) the Ghost of America Present, and an Angel of Death (Trace Adkins) points Malone to the future. From these wraiths we learn that pacifists like Malone would have been responsible for the continuation of slavery into the 21st century (because they opposed the Civil War) and for the Holocaust (you know why). A flashback to 1938 shows Neville Chamberlain signing the nonaggression pact with Hitler, then...
...restful." As it happens, Fahrenheit 9/11 earned more at the domestic box office than any movie David Zucker has directed. And though Grandpa Nielsen's closing argument is that "It turned out that people actually wanted to see movies that show all the good things about America," An American Carol hasn't exactly broken box-office records. After 30 days in release, it's earned about $7 million. The Bill Maher anti-God documentary Religulous, released the same day, has taken in $11.4 million...