The movie is about 'American Dreamz', a popular TV lyric competition. This contest may look quite different, as it attracts many people, including the most powerful man in the world, which makes it a good opportunity for terrorists to kill the president.
[A] satirically unbalanced in its attempted fusion of such varied targets as George Bush, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Muslim suicide bombers, and the hosts and contestants on American Idol.
Cinematical
April 08, 2007
Did writer-director Paul Weitz think that U.S. audiences would be too dumb to appreciate actual satire?
American Dreamz tries hard to be both important and farcical, but it leans a bit too much towards farce without being funny enough to pull that off either. It's decent, but uninspired.
A moderately engaging satire, some of it amusing and some of it strained, but in considerable measure it reflects a strange circumstance in all our lives.
Writer/Director Paul Wietz ("In Good Company") tries his hand at creating a topical satire of our current American social-political crisis and comes up far short of capturing the brutal climate of a country running on the fumes of its dismembered civil ri
