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Jun 30, 2021 · Netflix’s animated feature America: The Motion Picture, which releases on June 30, feels like an attempt to walk the same line between mockery and actual jingoism.The aggressively anachronistic ...
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By Matt Fowler
Updated: Jun 30, 2021 3:50 pm
Posted: Jun 30, 2021 7:01 am
America: The Motion Picture premieres Wednesday, June 30 on Netflix.
From Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The LEGO Movie) and Archer's Adam Reed comes a raunchy and riotous retelling of the Revolutionary War that feels like Drunk History had a one night stand with The Naked Gun and then gave birth to a history report by Bill and Ted if they never had a time machine. This animated adventure, from first-time feature director Matt Thompson (also Archer), can, at times, exhaust with its over-the-top antics and unabashed insanity, but overall it's a worthwhile watch featuring a fun voice cast and awesomely nutty anachronisms.
To its hilarious benefit, America: The Motion Picture is presented without context. There's no bookend letting us know that this is a dumb person's account of the founding of our nation or even, like, Princess Bride-style interludes showing a grandfather reading uproariously wrong information off the internet to his grandkid. We just get the story as-is. Out of the gate, it's just a bonkers chronicle of 1776 that features a werewolf Benedict Arnold blowing up most of the founding fathers and then killing Abe Lincoln in front of Abe's BFF George Washington. Just about every aspect of American political history, including quotes from presidents 200 years later, is jammed into a blender and minced up into a deranged action movie.
America: The Motion picture also takes no prisoners, topic-wise. It both embraces the innate earnestness and innocent idiocy of American jingoism while also never letting our heroes off the hook for being racist and misogynistic. Even as some of our heroes learn valuable lessons -- usually because they're educated by Geronimo, Edison, or Killer Mike's Blacksmith (aka "Black Smith") -- the film never presents the country as anything other than a noble experiment on the precipice of implosion. Even if, going by action movies, America is the rogue cop who doesn't play by the rules the story is hyper-aware that there's something deeply wrong with that type of heroics.
Skewering everything from Star Wars to Fast and Furious to even Harry and the Hendersons, the film is great at lassoing different blips from pop culture in a way where the larger story still makes sense, in its own goofy way. Sure, Big Ben turns into a giant mech and people openly use machine guns and holograms but it's all in service of calling out, and laughing at, the U.S.'s societal and cultural issues and ills. This movie and 2004's Team America: World Police would make for an excellent double feature on any given Independence Day.
America: The Motion Picture is like Drunk History if the history were not only drunk but also on nitrous. Channing Tatum once again proves he's a comedy force to be reckoned with, backed by a stellar cast of capable and cunning joke spitters. The unrelenting pace of the gags means there's never a lull, but some of the comedy gets squeezed out as a ...
Jun 29, 2021 · Produced by teams behind “The Lego Movie” and the FX series “Archer,” “America: The Motion Picture” owes debts to the raunchy sensibility of “Team America: World Police” and the ...
America: The Motion Picture. America: The Motion Picture is a 2021 American comedy film directed by Matt Thompson and written by Dave Callaham, who both also produce. It stars Channing Tatum (also a producer), Jason Mantzoukas, Olivia Munn, Bobby Moynihan, Judy Greer, Will Forte, Raoul Max Trujillo, Killer Mike, Simon Pegg and Andy Samberg.
Jun 30, 2021 · America: The Motion Picture, 2021. Directed by Matt Thompson. Featuring the voice talents of Channing Tatum, Jason Mantzoukas, Olivia Munn, Andy Samberg, Bobby Moynihan, Judy Greer, Will Forte ...
Jun 30, 2021 · It is, in fact, the feature directorial debut of Matt Thompson, the mind behind the likes of Archer and Sealab 2021. Like those shows, America: The Motion Picture is ultimately a sendup of a genre ...
Jul 1, 2021 · America: The Motion Picture is gleefully inaccurate, mashing up obviously contemporary ideas into a steampunk fantasy of the past. It's strange that, in offering a revisionist history, screenwriter Callaham chose to embrace racism and misogyny. The concept is promising, and the violent delirium of the movie's visuals show that this could have ...
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