Muslims that speak primarily English and not their home land\u2019s language, a Muslim young man who sings and dances and isn\u2019t killed for it, a glorified karaoke show that\u2019s staged, scripted, and twisted, a dumb president who can barely walk on his own, and a vice president that pretty much coaches the president\u2019s appearances and speeches. \u201cAmerican Dreamz\u201d is not only incredibly stupid, but it pretty much states the obvious from minute one. Weitz and crew almost create a \u201cSatire for Dummies\u201d film, featuring gags and social commentary that are neither funny, nor edgy, and tread over the same old crap we\u2019ve seen in various other television shows, and films time and time again.<\/p>\n
Reality television is garbage, and the country is run by a moron. Well, what a big fat shocker, too bad we\u2019ve been told that over and over for years now. \u201cAmerican Dreamz\u201d is a painfully unfunny attempt to jab at American sensationalism, and exploitation with zero intelligence, and rather awful performances, all in a film that\u2019s just twenty minutes too long. In a rather elaborate narrative, \u201cAmerican Dreamz\u201d is a multi-character all star film about a smash reality show that\u2019s prompted the attention of the president to regain his good publicity, and a young man who plans to bomb the entire show through entering and winning the contest. In the process, the young man is exploited for being Muslim and basically takes the world by storm. Weitz\u2019s film doesn\u2019t just suffer from being a mind numbing affair, and it suffers for also managing to be a really excruciating attempt to be edgy, touch on a few hot spots, without ever actually making the audience feel uncomfortable.<\/p>\n
If that isn\u2019t bad enough, much of the script is so utterly hideous that it\u2019s just shocking that it was written with the consideration that it could be funny. And most times than not it fails at doing what it sets out to. Beyond that, most of this satire and tale of the consuming fame seeking American comes off flat, particularly in Mandy Moore who is just completely unconvincing as this obnoxious piranha seeking fame especially when she\u2019s already played it to better effect in \u201cSaved!\u201d There\u2019s also Hugh Grant who once plays the callous jack ass as he did in \u201cAbout a Boy,\u201d along with Chris Klein who pretty much plays the big oafish lump as he did in \u201cElection,\u201d and every other film he\u2019s ever been in. There\u2019s also the truly weak spoof on President Bush played by Dennis Quaid who you can tell is doing his best to spoof Bush, but looks like he\u2019s doing a poor impression of Jack Nicholson. \u201cAmerican Dreamz\u201d is a film that will become timely in a matter of a few short years once the \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d crazed has died down and America\u2019s short attention span has been diverted to something equally vacuous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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