"This is the dust of 3000 innocent human beings!" bellows Washington. Malone whimpers that he's just making movies. Washington won't have it. "Is that what you plan to say on Judgment Day?"

From the comic genius who wrote the line, "Moscow in flames, missiles inbound, film at 11:00!" in "Kentucky Fried Movie"

Cam/ron

Hey! This movie has Mary Hart! AND Hitler!

It's gonna be Hitlerrific!

yikesahootie

@Leviticus_71: I myself am offended by salve jokes. You did good.

Benny

I really like The Naked Gun. ...That makes this even harder to take.

And it's not that I don't think Michael Moore is worthy of ridicule either. ...He is.

It's that I just watched the least funny trailer I've ever seen and then read the phrase, "the dust of 3000 innocent human beings."

Benny

-correction-

*NOT* that i'm terribly PC but are SLAVE jokes in bounds? Massuh?

I hate myself.

Leviticus_71

That's so unfortunate. At least one of the Furtelli Brothers from Goonies makes an appearance as a terrorist. And wow...slave owner? ot that i'm terribly PC but are salve jokes in bounds? Massuh?

Leviticus_71

To be a master of satire you first require a basic understanding of reality.

The concept for this movie comes about 6 years too late, and even then, it's not funny. Silly, Republicans, we only enjoy laughing at you, and even there this movie fails. I don't even feel upset, just embarrassed for Zucker & Co.

NoWireHangers

Poor right-wing lunatics of America. All they want is to make the world laugh, but the can't top the ongoing eight-year joke that is their president.

metroville

kinda late and irrelevant

gaynyernbama

This is a joke, right?

A Pimp Named DaveR

"From David Zucker ... the master of movie satire"

Does it count if you have to quote yourself?

mugczar

@metroville: Shhh...don't tell Oliver Stone...

Little Mintz Sunshine

At least Coleman's resumed his career as a cameo actor, rather than doing more uncomfortable interviews about his virginity. And does anyone sufficiently identify with Moore himself to be offended by this movie?

Fama Est

@mugczar: ha! Perfect!

TwiceShy

That's weird cause David directed the Naked Gun 2 1/2 which had an overt environmental green agenda throughout and pummeled Barbara Bush.

Cultmember

Having looked at the script list, I suppose Andy Garcia and Carrot Top had previous engagements. Or maybe they wanted "script" approval.

mordecai1908

Methinks creativity, in terms of dealing with the full palette of human emotions, requires an open heart and a willingness to picture yourself in someone else's Birkenstocks for a while. So, while there are lots of wonderful anomalies on either side of the fence--Ezra Pound and Neil Young, for example--the ability to make art that moves people to tears or catalyzes life changes will always largely belong to people who are alarmingly pro-social and democratic. On the udder hand, if you want to hire someone who can shred pension plans, lay off thousands, and not lose any sleep about it, don't hire Michael Moore. Likewise if you want a shitty, blustery movie that resorts to spectacle whenever real human emotions threaten to intrude. That's life. Full stop.

WGARefugee

@Leviticus_71: Your salve joke was soothing compared to this trailer.

kookla

@Leviticus_71: These are people who consider (M)ann Coulter intellectual AND funny and who don't bat an eyelash when Mary Matalin says that Jerome Corsi's tissue of lies 'The Obama Nation' is 'a piece of scholarship'.

They are idiots. Let them have their idiot playhouse where they can put on their idiot puppet shows.

Maybe they will become so engrossed in their silliness that they leave the business of governing to people who aren't morons, thieves and/or pedophiles...

gwendolyn

One of the beauties of sitting on the fence is that you get to watch both sides behave like idiots. It's like a never-ending retard fight.

Little Mintz Sunshine

@Benny: Preparation H puns vex me sorely.

bigleggedwoman

William Hurt has REALLY let himself go.

bigleggedwoman

i can't believe old number 7 hasn't said this yet but...THEY'VE GONE FULL RETARD!

LLH

@Cultmember: He says he converted to Republicanism post 9/11 because of national security. He belives that the Republicans are the only ones who can protect America. For serious, and hence this horribly unfunny film.

NoWireHangers

I have to say that Chris Farley's brother has every bit as much comic talent as the late lamented. Michael Moore getting bitch-slapped in the Portalet! Whoa, that's the way to treat a messenger bringing you bad news.

regisgoat

@NoWireHangers: The same thing happened to Dennis Miller. I'm still trying to recall the last time he made me laugh, I'll get back to you.

Cam/ron

How did David Alan Grier end up in this?

lighten up, morrissey

@WGARefugee: The idea that only so-called "progressive" people can be funny is a pretty silly one.

Take Michael Moore. Now, today, put him in charge of a company that has no choice but to lay people off in order to survive. He if he does so (as he must) does that mean he's no longer Michael Moore? No, it only means he's now a guy with actual real life responsibility. He still has the ability to laugh and poke fun at things.

Losin_it

Comedy Rule#54. If the promotional trailer for your movie features more than 3 instances of someone being hit in the face/head/nuts, your movie is not going to be funny.

cockfightbarmitzvah

@Losin_it: "He if he does so"? Nice going, lunkhead. Have a good weekend...

Losin_it

Fred Travalena as Jimmy Carter promises a very strong opening.

jaytingle

ok, so there's this rich frat-boy who goes awol from the national guard he's using to avoid 'nam,' and then he buys and sells a baseball team, then becomes governor, suppresses a DUI from Maine in the press, somehow gets elected Prez and lies the country into a war to avoid a recession and make his buddies rich.

I forgot the punch line. Oh right, there isn't one.

MrRewrite

@MrRewrite: Cool. I got one about a habitual liar that spent much of his "governing" time accepting blow jobs in the White House. Well, this might apply to several past Presidents, but I think you know who I mean. This one did little when terrorist groups attacked the US abroad, leading to a 9/11 style attack shortly after he left office.

Let's compare notes and do lunch one day. Between the goofy frat boy and the redneck bullshit artist, we might have the pieces of one good script.

Losin_it

Looks good, I honestly can't wait.

The fact that it seems to offend so many here makes it that much more appealing.

The only thing worse than "eight years of Bush" would be a millisecond of Obama.

But that's right, I thought this wasn't a political forum. Silly me.

cinerama

First off, fuck you, Farley. As if your barely-talented brother's memory needed more dishonoring...

And making the original Airplane buys a filmmaker considerable leeway in their subsequent career--but that account was overdrawn many suck-ass films ago, even before the creepy neo-con court jester routine.

In sum: you and your Bill O'Reilly-approved "comedy" can suck a stale dick and die. That goes for you too, cinerama.

(As if anyone can add insult to "Bill O'Reilly-approved"...)

GuyBitchy

@gwendolyn: NoWireHangers, I just reread this and it sounds like I am implying you agree with Mr. Zucker, which was not my intent at all.

gwendolyn

@NoWireHangers: Does David Zucker remember the party of the President, Vice-President, Secretary of Defense and the National Security Advisor on September 11, 2001?

No, I didn't think so...

There is a wonderful but cumbersome acronymesque collection of letters that are very popular with we who didn't drink the kool aid: IOKIYAR

And they work for pedophile congressmen who support anti-kiddie porn legislation, Secretaries of State who shoe shop and see 'Spam-A-Lot'while people are lying dead in an American city and Commanders in Chief who, when shown evidence that 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside the US' tells the CIA officers bringing this information to him in August, 2001, 'OK, you can go home now. You've covered your asses'.

What do those letters stand for?

It's OK If You Are Republican.

Oh, and Mr. Zucker: They may not be dust, but there are about 750,000 innocent people in Iraq who would be living and breathing now if we had gone after Osama Bin Ladin rather than the Iraqi oil fields.

And no unfunny, preachy, false 'comedy' is going to change that fact.

God, I hope that POS doesn't even make it to video...

gwendolyn

On the one hand I agree that the Bush gang are criminals, on the other hand it's really, really, time to retire the phrase "drank the Kool Aid." And let's kill off the word "sheeple" while we're at it.

regisgoat