#140RVW
Not only the worst “satire” I’ve seen, among the worst movies I have ever watched. John Candy deserved better for his last released film…
What’s more:
Breathtakingly awful. Among the worst movies I have ever watched, and there have been more than a few clunkers. Proof positive, if it was needed, that nothing good can come from Michael Moore. Thankfully after this he never again tried to make a purely fictional movie. (He just settled for making op-ed pieces and calling them documentaries.)
The ONLY reason I watched this was because it was the last John Candy movie released. (Wagons East was the last he filmed, but was released first – sort of an Abbey Road/Let It Be thing. I’m preparing myself up to watch that one soon.)
And it could only be for this reason that I didn’t turn it off like I should have. I kept hoping for one good John Candy scene that I would have regretted missing – his career/life was short enough. But alas, there really was absolutely nothing redeemable about this movie. At all. (Actually, the bit where Aykroyd makes Candy spray-paint his anti-Canadian graffiti into French is not bad, even if it is a blatant rip-off of the same gag from Monty Python’s Life of Brian.)
There’s a good movie to be made about a possible USA/Canadian war, and that movie is South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut…
Poster:
Trailer:
http://youtu.be/4jf8Bt4gD9Y
Bechdel Test:
Fail
The Representation Test Score: D (2 pts)
(http://therepresentationproject.org/grading-hollywood-the-representation-test/)
| Main Cast | John Candy Sheriff Bud Boomer, Alan Alda President of the United States, Rhea Perlman Honey, Kevin Pollak Stu Smiley |
| Rating | PG |
| Release Date | Fri 22 Sep 1995 UTC |
| Director | Michael Moore |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Plot | The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war against Canada. |
| Poster |  |
| Runtime | 91 |
| Tagline | It Gets Lonely at the Top, When There’s No More Butt to Kick. |
| Writers | Michael Moore (written by) |
| Year | 1995 |