A Movie Making Fun of Michael Moore? Count Us In!
Tuesday, August 12, 2008A guest today at the Heritage Foundation’s weekly bloggers’ luncheon was Myrna Sokoloff, a writer of the new David Zucker movie, “American Carol,” which mocks all the mockables among the American left. Zucker is one of the originators of the movie comedy classics “Airplane!” and “The Naked Gun,” the broad humor, sight gag, pun-filled spoofs that have become a movie genre unto themselves (that genre being broad humor, sight gag, pun-filled spoofs).
Sokoloff made the pitch that “American Carol” is unprecedented, a overtly conservative, major comedy that takes on the Hollywood-dominating Left. She emphasized the principles that informed the movie, including a belief in America as a force for good, support for the military and the defense of faith.
Ugh. Another preachy, didactic movie, right? OK, “Z” was good, but that was a long time ago and foreign, besides.
But then Sokoloff showed the trailer and some clips, and it’s “Airplane!” takes on “Roger and Me,” with the target being a Michael Moore-like movie director (played by Kevin Farley) and his campaign against the 4th of July.
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