OK, King George was England’s ruler during the American revolution - this is an “Animal House” style, “did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor” moment for a new generation. The dying Lincoln (voice of Will Forte) begs Washington (Channing Tatum) to lead the revolution against Great Britain and King James (Simon Pegg), and form America. He wants weapons that scream overreaction - hundreds of shots fired back at anyone who shoots at them.Īnd what does he plan to do with these, the clerk asks? Though that crowd won’t like the bit where Washington visits a Walmart-like store to buy guns to arm revolutionaries. Olivia Munn's Thomas Edison is a Chinese woman in this take on historyĪlthough these days who knows what the QAnon crowd is teaching as history? Or what the state of Texas is teaching, for that matter. This is a movie, and it needs to hit the mark faster than it does. It's in the vein, both visually and temperamentally, of "Archer," which isn't surprising, since director Matt Thompson has won an Emmy for that show. It wears you down over time, but especially early on it's too satisfied just to be shocking and irreverent. The film goes all in on its deranged version of the founding of the nation.
But when at the start, a werewolf Benedict Arnold tears out Abe Lincoln’s throat while he’s watching a “Stomp”-like performance with his best bud George Washington - after slaughtering all the signers of the Declaration of Independence - you probably will have realized that. Make that a gleefully profane, blood-red violent hit-and-miss comedy, one that purports to tell the real history of the founding of America. If nothing else, this much is true about “America: The Motion Picture.” It is a decidedly hit-and-miss animated comedy streaming on Netflix on June 30. If you’re going to go absurdist, go all the way.
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