An American Carol - a spoof satirising Michael Moore

American Carol, due for US release in October this year, is a spoof on Charles Dicken's Christmas Carol in which an anti-American filmmaker has his views changed by the visit of three ghosts.

Conservatives and conservative websites in the US are cheering on this film. Those who have seen previews think it hilarious. The more telling point, however, is the abuse a film still in production is provoking among the PC-class. The websites below provide the trailer and information. Note the comments after the information:

you tube trailer

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/07/31/vivendi-to-release-david-zuckers-an-american-carol/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Carol

Hollywood Confidential, a US conservative news bulletin service, included this comment on PC reaction to the film:

American Carol Attacks Unleashed

One blogger refers to David Zucker’s latest film, “An American Carol,” as a “Zucker Movie Suicide Mission.”

Another blogger asks the question: “What Happened to David Zucker?”

Weird postings have been appearing on the Internet, insulting the maker of “Airplane” and “Naked Gun” with ridiculous insinuations like “he's lost any comedic talent he once had,” that he was going to “destroy his cred” and that he and others, namely Dennis Miller, had become “aggressively unfunny.”

Why all the anger?

Well, maybe because Zucker is a former liberal who overhauled his political beliefs due, in part, to Hollywood’s reaction to 9/11. He eventually looked to his left and saw a vast reservoir of comic material.

The filmmaker’s latest flick is a takeoff on Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” And the neo-Ebenezer Scrooge character of Michael Mallone just happens to bear a strong resemblance to Michael Moore.

In the movie, Mallone is visited by three spirits, those of John F. Kennedy, Gen. George Patton and George Washington, who try and teach him about the real meaning of American freedom.

Featured in the film is a group of like-minded actors, a sterling cast that includes Jon Voight, Kelsey Grammer, James Woods, Dennis Hopper, Robert Davi, and country singer Trace Adkins.

The late Chris Farley's younger brother Kevin plays Mallone and is decked out as Moore’s doppelganger.

Zucker actually anticipated that he would be attacked for going against the Hollywood grain.

In an interview, which will appear in an upcoming Newsmax magazine, the filmmaker says that his approach wasn’t altered. In fact, the only thing that had changed was the subject matter, which in the case of “An American Carol” happens to be the lampooning of the far left, a unique concept in today’s Tinseltown.

“All I’m doing, and all I’ve done for the last 30 years, is find things that are taken too seriously and expose them in a comedic fashion,” Zucker says. “Far left politics are taken too seriously.

“Who would’ve thought airplane disaster movies would be material for jokes before ‘Airplane?’ Or serious Westerns would be funny until ‘Blazing Saddles’?” Zucker rhetorically asks. “My motivations have always been to first ask, ‘Where can I find good jokes?’”

He’s optimistic that people from all points of the political spectrum will enjoy “An American Carol.” “Even though we are dealing with some serious subjects, we repeatedly remind the audience, ‘You are watching a comedy,’” he says.

The lefties can scowl all they want; this movie is hilarious.