![]() ![]() Killer Mike is in this movie, too, as a blacksmith I’m happy to see him but I don’t know what he’s there for. The trouble is that none of the jokes or the references naturally fit together, and the film not only doesn't try to explain them, the lack of explanation is itself the movie’s main joke - and that’s only clever the first 70 times.īenedict Arnold (Andy Samberg) is here. The sum of all these disparate parts isn’t an interesting mashup in which chunks of one work of art comment profitably on bits of another. Truly, I have no idea what “America: The Motion Picture” is supposed to be about, beyond a movie that dares to ask the question, “What if we made a movie that was 10th-grade U.S. ![]() To watch this movie is to hear a friend you thought liked you say, “Check this out you like this kind of slop, right?” It's not bad in the sense that its humor is nasty, or even that the jokes are overly gross - it's bad because you get the sense that it sort of hates its ideal viewer. I’m sorry to report, however, that it is not just bad, but that it is kind of offensively bad. It is directed by Matt Thompson, a regular collaborator of “Archer” creator Adam Reed, and I love “Archer.” There are lots of "Star Wars" references, as well as jokes about "Dune" and "Robocop." In fact, it's all silly, intentionally cheap reference humor, and all the references are to stuff liked by people squarely in my demographic, with some socially conscious jokes - several of them pretty good - thrown in. The most depressing thing about Netflix's “America: The Motion Picture” - and there are a lot of things in that crowded category - is the inescapable feeling that it was made for someone exactly like me.
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