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American Dreamz
'American Dreamz' seems to be a famous television singing contest. It attracts a lots of people including the most powerful man in the world that makes a good chance for terrorists to reach the president.
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August 30, 2009
The pieces are all in place for a slashing Preston Sturges jamboree. All that's missing are balls
April 20, 2009
Writer/Director Paul Wietz ("In Good Company") tries his hand at creating a topical satire of our current American social-political crisis and comes up far short of capturing the brutal climate of a country running on the fumes of its dismembered civil ri
April 24, 2006
In the words of Simon, it's a complete and utter disaster.
December 13, 2006
A comedy that delivers in every way, "American Dreamz" easily gets my vote.
December 28, 2010
American Dreamz tries hard to be both important and farcical, but it leans a bit too much towards farce without being funny enough to pull that off either. It's decent, but uninspired.
April 08, 2007
Did writer-director Paul Weitz think that U.S. audiences would be too dumb to appreciate actual satire?
May 05, 2006
A moderately engaging satire, some of it amusing and some of it strained, but in considerable measure it reflects a strange circumstance in all our lives.
April 29, 2009
Weitz and crew almost create a "Satire for Dummies" film, featuring gags and social commentary that are neither funny, nor edgy...
April 21, 2006
[Paul] Weitz co-directed the wonderful About a Boy in 2002, but in Dreamz -- a tediously facile satire -- his comic instincts fail him.
April 27, 2006
[A] satirically unbalanced in its attempted fusion of such varied targets as George Bush, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Muslim suicide bombers, and the hosts and contestants on American Idol.
June 24, 2006
...Opting for a broad, light mood that's at complete odds with the darker potential of its political premise.
April 27, 2006
Great satires draw blood. American Dreamz barely nicks the surface.