America the motion picture movie#

Most of the people in the famed Trumbull painting have been offed by a secret bomb plot carried out by Benedict Arnold ( Andy Samberg), so Washington is forced to look elsewhere to assemble his avengers. George Washington ( Channing Tatum) and Abraham Lincoln (Will Forte) are best friends, and it’s the murder of the latter (committed by someone other than who you’re expecting) that’s as much an inciting incident for this version of the American Revolution as any British colonial tax policy. The opening third of “America: The Motion Picture” - written by “Wonder Woman 1984” scribe and “Jean-Claude Van Johnson” creator Dave Callaham - channels the manic energy of a 12-year-old playing with a bunch of mismatched action figures and trying to create a storyline on the fly that somehow involves all of them. 'My Best Friend's Exorcism' Review: Self-Possessed Elsie Fisher Is Best Part of Uneven '80s Horror-ComedyĬannes Platforms Early Best International Feature Contenders Like 'Decision to Leave' 'Till' Review: An American Horror Story, Told Too Cautiously Most of the time, it’s knowingly stupid, which makes watching it 90 minutes of occasional fun and frequent indifference. “America: The Motion Picture” is a goofy mishmash of riffs on prominent historical figures, often only slightly more ambitious than that commercial where ol’ GW drives a Dodge Challenger with a Hemi engine. For others looking for an insightful takedown of the mythologizing of American history, there’s not much for them to find, either. For those watching who consider anything other than reverence of the Founders to be insufficient, this will not be their cup of Boston Lager.

America the motion picture movie#

That’s about as close to making a salient point as this movie gets. If the cherry tree story was always fiction - not to mention scores of other anecdotes about historical figures that have morphed their way into conventional understanding about the Great Men of History - then why not tell a nonsensical version of 1776 that involves mechanized weapon limbs? As far as historical rewrites go, that’s not nothing.

“America: The Motion Picture” gives George Washington chainsaw arms.