Tonight the wife and I saw An American Carol in a theater in Lawton, Oklahoma. Just four of us in the multiplex room for the 5:30 showing. Too bad.

The film is humorous throughout, and laugh-out-loud funny in spots. I won't summarize the plot, since I assume you've seen the trailers, or at least have seen or read A Christmas Carol. This movie resembles director David Zucker's other works--Airplane, Naked Gun, Scary Movie--with verbal gags and sight gags. Kevin Farley carries the movie reasonably well as Michael Malone (Michael Moore) and Kelsey Grammer get the most screen time of the ghosts as General Patton. I think the most effective work is done by Jon Voight as the ghost of George Washington. Every sacred cow of liberalism gets gored.

At its core, the movie portrays two antithetical world-views. On one side, those who believe that other peoples, nations and their leaders are basically decent, and only would attack us if we provoked them. Since Islamic terrorists are attacking us, we must have done something to provoke them. If we only could change our nation into a pacifist, socialist utopia, and then sit down and talk with our attackers, everything would be well. On the other side, those who believe that some other peoples, nations and their leaders are evil, and mean us harm for reasons that will not change even if we apologize to them for existing.

If you are in the latter category, you'll enjoy the movie.