American Dreamz
Forward: Spoilers ahead. If you do not wish to know anything about the plot of the movie American Dreamz, stop reading now....
Ok, so on my days off, sometimes I treat myself to a movie. The past month there has been little I've been interested in seeing, but for the last couple of weeks I had been eagerly anticipating the opening of American Dreamz. (I know, I'm a dork)
The interest was due to many things- a) I'm a sick American Idol groupie b)American Dreamz is a satire on the Bush administration, of whom I'm just sick and c)I'll see just about anything.
Anyway, I LOVED American Dreamz. It is a total satire of Hollywood, American Idol, and the Bush administration all rolled into one deliciously slick elbow-nudge. There are of course the characters based on real life people: Hugh Grant as a Ryan Seacrest/Simon Cowel self-loathing host of American Dreamz, Dennis Quaid as the bumble-headed, but good-hearted inept Prez (he looks and sounds so much like Bush, it's scary. There's even a Laura look-alike- Marsha Gay Harden), the controlling VP played by Willem Dafoe, and the white-trash-turned starlet a la Spears in Mandy Moore.
What I did not expect was the subplot involving an Arab contestant who accidentally gets on the show, only to be recruited by terrorists to blow himself up as he shakes hands w/the prez during the final show. The Arab, Omer, is by far the most complex and compelling character in the movie, and there are some surprisingly gut wrenching moments for such a satire.
Final verdict: Two thumbs up
Ok, so on my days off, sometimes I treat myself to a movie. The past month there has been little I've been interested in seeing, but for the last couple of weeks I had been eagerly anticipating the opening of American Dreamz. (I know, I'm a dork)
The interest was due to many things- a) I'm a sick American Idol groupie b)American Dreamz is a satire on the Bush administration, of whom I'm just sick and c)I'll see just about anything.
Anyway, I LOVED American Dreamz. It is a total satire of Hollywood, American Idol, and the Bush administration all rolled into one deliciously slick elbow-nudge. There are of course the characters based on real life people: Hugh Grant as a Ryan Seacrest/Simon Cowel self-loathing host of American Dreamz, Dennis Quaid as the bumble-headed, but good-hearted inept Prez (he looks and sounds so much like Bush, it's scary. There's even a Laura look-alike- Marsha Gay Harden), the controlling VP played by Willem Dafoe, and the white-trash-turned starlet a la Spears in Mandy Moore.
What I did not expect was the subplot involving an Arab contestant who accidentally gets on the show, only to be recruited by terrorists to blow himself up as he shakes hands w/the prez during the final show. The Arab, Omer, is by far the most complex and compelling character in the movie, and there are some surprisingly gut wrenching moments for such a satire.
Final verdict: Two thumbs up
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