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America: The Motion Picture

2021

Matt Thompson

Animation

5.2

489

Animation. Comedy. Adventure. Sci-Fi George Washington must put together a fighting force of revolutionaries to combat the tyrannical King James.

	Media	Author	Review
		John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Though it’ll likely leave some customers satisfied in its current form, it would be much easier to take as a series of very short, instantly forgettable episodes that pop up in one’s stream unpredictably"
		Brianna Zigler Paste Magazine	"'America: The Motion Picture's unfunny historical farce is as antiquated as its subjects (...) To qualify the film’s jokes as jokes at all is giving them too much credit"
		Matt Fowler IGN	"The film is great at lassoing different blips from pop culture in a way where the larger story still makes sense"
		Steve Greene IndieWire	"[It] has too much energy and not enough imagination (...) A goofy mishmash of riffs on prominent historical figures"
		Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"It feels like the product that would result from a bunch of eighth graders challenging each other to make history homework more exciting (...) Funny wins out over loud often enough (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Brian Lowry CNN	"Being outrageous can be harder than it looks, and 'America: The Motion Picture' (...) works way, way too hard at it. The result is a movie that's loud and annoying more than truly provocative"
		Charles Bramesco The Guardian	"It’s all cast in a harder-to-love light due to adolescent nose-thumbing over giddy earnestness (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Cole Sansom Ready Steady Cut	"Overall it amounts to a perfectly entertaining movie, if not the transgressively clever one some of its lines suggest (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"
		Samantha Nelson Polygon	"[It] fails at just about everything (...) Like a dud firework, it’s meant to provide a quick rush of spectacle, and it’s just a disappointment."
		William Hughes AV Club	"A political comedy without political ideas—or good jokes (...) [It] is a lot bolder visually than comedically"
		Michael Nordine Variety	"Though loyalists and sticklers for historical accuracy may not consider it their cup of tea, 'America' will likely win over anyone who knows not to take it too seriously."
		John Serba Decider	"Skip it. I hereby find too many of the jokes in 'America: The Motion Picture' to be self-evident."

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