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It's a social satire sex comedy in the best way and reminds me a bit of the old "Carry On" movies.
I thought it was the funniest film I have seen in a long time, mainly because I saw the truth in the satire.
I suppose I like this film as well as any I know; it is not perfect, but under the title "The Americanization of Lily" this charming and memorable semi-musical satire might I suggest have been appreciated more, and still loved by those who recognized its special Blake Edwards'-produced spirit of gentleness, clever humor and solid narrative.
A political satire of a comedian (Williams) who after dissing the political campaigns and presidents is forced into the running.
This movie is a comedy but also has a great satire, please if you like movies like "Scary Movie 4" this is not for you, take your brain with you to see it.
This satire is just really, really dead-on, and nobody is spared.
It is so subtle and wicked that you start to realize what a stinging satire it really is.
Despite its many faults, Hallmark's 1995 version of Gulliver's Travels is still the finest adaptation of Jonathan Swift's satirical classic - largely because it not only includes ALL of Gulliver's many travels but also includes the satire that's often overlooked.
However I think Where the Heart Is, although made to cater to the less than art savvy American audience, is masterful as satire, and as social commentary of the times it was made in.
All great satire is based on going out on an edge.
Like Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, The Great Dictator deals with history through the distorted lens of satire.
As social satire, Idiocracy is just as good as Office Space, but with a wider scope.
As well as being a portrayal of a lesbian love story, FIRE is also a comic satire of middle-class (?) Indian culture.
deep meaningful alternative-love story and comic satire) usually mix together just as well as oil and water do, but Mehta (somehow) manages to achieve the balance to near perfection.
In fact, much of the humour in the film which provides essential relief from the heavy subjects of taboo lesbian love and gender issues, stem from this satire of the seemingly ordinary.
Most successful part of the film is the trenchant satire of Reality TV cameras intruding on the future victims, but the not-so-elaborate deaths (which include a hidden piece of red candy!) are disappointing and dispiriting.
Copping-out by allowing friendly critics to claim that all this artless crap was a satire on mainstream film-making is no more than a safe get-out to offer those who clearly see Godard's poverty of intellect and arrogant contempt for his audience.
This film breeches the fine line between satire and silliness.
While a bridge system that has no rules may promote marital harmony, it certainly can't promote winning bridge, so the satire didn't work for me.
The satire feels totally overshadowed by the extremely steretyped characters.
At the same time the movie wants to be hip satire, a series of comedy sketches of the type that the NBC television show "Saturday Night" would do so well two years later.
Honestly, if a satire does not make the viewer angry, what is the point?
I was dying to see this once I saw the ridiculous MEATBALLS poster and divined that it had to be the best satire ever.
Apart from that, the films' role as a political satire fails miserably as being too obvious for even the most moronic out there to serve any purpose.
And to bill it as a satirical satire would be just plain insulting even to chimps.
Imitation is, apparently the highest form of flattery, but seeing as though this is nothing near Grosse Point Blanc and in the same league as meet the (watch if your a moron) Spartans in terms of political satire, lets leave well enough alone and let this one fade into the obscurity it absolutely deserves.
Production values are rotten across the board, the acting is excruciating and the Romero-wannabe satire can't make its mind up which side of the ecology fence it's mocking.
And there was nothing original about it - it pretty much borrows from every 'super-hero' story that has ever been which would be acceptable had the film been set up as a satire of that genre, but alas it wasn't.
I got the feeling that the director wanted the film to feel completely realistic and not satire at all, and yet there were some moments in the film that were so unbelievably unrealistic that it would have worked if it were a satire.
Monika Mitchell's showbiz satire has some laughs and some premeditated violence.
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