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• Phil H

  
  Are you fed up with life? fed up with the people around you? fed up with the constant mindless dribble that is shown on TV 24/7? the celebrity/sport addicted media or the use of brain sapping technology like 'Twitter' and txt on smart phones etc...?. Then why not break free… More
  Are you fed up with life? fed up with the people around you? fed up with the constant mindless dribble that is shown on TV 24/7? the celebrity/sport addicted media or the use of brain sapping technology like 'Twitter' and txt on smart phones etc...?. Then why not break free and go on a killing rampage to release the world of these modern day problems. Directed by Bobcat Goldthwait (yes that lunatic from a few 'Police Academy' movies) and with an unknown cast (to me) that really do shine. The plot is cute but totally unoriginal now I'm afraid, a depressed, ill, suicidal office worker gets fired and mentally snaps. He begins a killing spree with people that really annoy him or don't really deserve what they have, in short he's sick of modern day America. Along the way he picks up and befriends a young school girl who loves what he is doing so joins in and helps him. So yeah...its basically an update of 'Natural Born Killers' with a hint of 'Bonnie and Clyde' perhaps, no bank robbing though. Its a dark comedy positively brewing over with sadism which is accompanied by a cheerful soundtrack as the happy couple go on the lam executing people they believe to be unworthy. If you think along the lines of 'Office Space' and that angle of comedy but much much darker. What is truly excellent about this film is the pinpoint accuracy of the story and the way it shows us how utterly god awful modern day TV is. The immense popularity of reality shows like 'Pop Idol' and 'Big Brother' where morons are displayed for public humiliation or so called talent. This is the main focus of the plot, the spark that lights the main characters fuse for action. Other issues such as celebrity obsession, sport obsession, rudeness, lack of respect, general modern day pop culture and the whole self centered approach to today's society is targeted. It really is a joy to watch as 'Frank' and 'Roxy' gun down a group of youths in the local cinema for talking on their mobile phones and not shutting up throughout the film (oh how many times have you thought about that...don't lie). Extremist religious protesters on a march, a bloke who takes up two car parking spaces, an abrasive politician off TV and of course a spoilt brat from one of those glorious reality TV shows. The real mission for the pair is the judges on the popular reality show 'Superstarz' (a wonderful mockery of...well I'm sure you know). This is where they are headed, to end the lives of the pretentious, insensitive, rude, obnoxious panel of judges that make money from the 'know nothing, no talent' cultural obsession of our modern age. Like I say I hadn't heard of either main stars for this film but boy was I impressed!. Joel Murray as 'Frank' is just your every man, a bog standard blue collar office boy, but you really find yourself wanting him to win, get his point across. This character is the champion for all the regular law abiding joe's out there in reality, people who don't try to play the system, people who pay their bills and keep to speed limits. On the other hand the character of 'Roxy' played by Tara Lynne Barr I think is just there so boys can see a female teen kick ass. Yeah I could be wrong but seeing her gunning down perps (well kinda perps) as she leans out of their yellow Camaro with a grin on her face is...well its kinda hot. I actually think Barr slightly over acts to be honest, she's very good but a bit too over excited to be in the film methinks. Cutting right down to the bone this film is an unapologetic, blistering, scathing backlash at our society today, or should that be American society today. Its dark as hell as Goldthwait doesn't hide from the brutal truth, statements that will slap you across the face and make you pay attention. Its not perfect, not suppose to be a serious thriller or anything of course but I was thinking that surely by the midway point there would be masses of police after them. And surely the Camaro they stole would give them away somewhat, it is big, loud, fast and banana yellow. It does make the act of multiple murders look easy as they never seem to have any trouble from any law officials anywhere!. A fantastic film which I hadn't even heard of until I stumbled across the poster online. The beginning is by far the best and most amusing, the plot gets a touch off base as the couple start knocking people off and the film becomes more 'routine'. But the trigger happy violence against folk you love to hate turns this into some kind of feel good road movie...worryingly. I mean seriously, you haven't ever thought about waking on stage and blowing away certain well known reality TV judges?. Then perhaps turning to the camera and telling everybody at home what a mindless moron they are...yeah if you watch these reality shows you'd best not watch this film, it might sting.

• UUd I

  
  This movie shows the polemic about the modern culture. This movie has the same idea about what i hate in modern culture. unfortunately I don't have a courage like Frank.

• Jack H

  
  'God Bless America' is a preachy, irritating film that ultimately fails to resonate with the audience. I regularly shared the sentiment of the film's protagonist, I am cynical and I too hate the celebrity culture the film attacks, but he's so tiringly cynical and… More
  'God Bless America' is a preachy, irritating film that ultimately fails to resonate with the audience. I regularly shared the sentiment of the film's protagonist, I am cynical and I too hate the celebrity culture the film attacks, but he's so tiringly cynical and grumpy that he is hard to relate to. Though he is articulate, Frank (Joel Murray) reminded me of the cerebrally impaired, uninformed, generalising idiots you find on forums such as 'The Daily Mail Online', people with a chip on their shoulder who smugly moan on about standards of education and the justice system as if they know what they're talking about. So almost immediately, there is a big problem, but then it gets worse, the film's credibility sinks upon the arrival of Roxy (Tara Lynee Barr), Frank's annoying little side-kick. Their ensuing double act kills it, this hyperbolic, fantastical approach means that it isn't half as effective as 'Falling Down', which is a darker film that resonates through being funny, tragic and for the most part, realistic. It is Roxy that places 'God Save America' alongside the awful pseudo-superhero film 'Super', but thankfully Tara Lynne Barr's acting style isn't as unbearably smug as Ellen Page's. There's also a scene that copies the gun salesman scene in 'Taxi Driver' almost verbatim, which I found more of an offence than some sort of homage, or whatever they intended it to be. I saw no redeeming reason for cramming this kitsch scene in the closing 15 minutes. A merit would be that some of the slayings are indeed quite funny in their brutality, especially one concerning one of the vile creatures from those awful 'Super Sweet 16' programmes, but unfortunately the film quickly loses the little steam it mustered.

• Anthony L

  
  I feel like Frank most days (without the killing part). A film like this, IE; a film that has a person kill another for not being very nice is always going to be flawed in a way due to the contradiction of the action. Surely it's better to have a reason though, Bonnie and Clyde… More
  I feel like Frank most days (without the killing part). A film like this, IE; a film that has a person kill another for not being very nice is always going to be flawed in a way due to the contradiction of the action. Surely it's better to have a reason though, Bonnie and Clyde is a great film and is commonly regarded as an American classic but I would argue that it depicts a darker set of individuals or is at least the the worse of two evils. It is of course dripping in satire, not just as a reaction to modern culture (if you can call it culture) but also to films and TV being made today, unhealthy beliefs of self importance and the 'rights' people think they're entitled too. It's shocking, it's also quite wrong in many ways but it's lots of fun. The script is brilliant, it smashes old cliches to pieces and gives a very decent twist to the usual ' Bonnie and Clyde' type of film. The acting is also very good but what works the best is the way that all the things that are depicted in this film are not exaggerated - TV really is this bad today and people are this moronic. This film is destined to be either loved or misunderstood but then if everyone loved it it wouldn't exist would it. Bobcat Goldthwait is a brilliant writer and director and is without doubt one of the most interesting film makers working in America today. Long may he reign!

• ♥˩ƳИИ &

  
  "I get why so many enjoyed this movie. They do and say a lot of what others are thinking. But I still thought the movie was just whatever. I didn't find it funny or entertaining. It felt like more like an almost two hour bitch fest of what is wrong with America. I don't… More
  "I get why so many enjoyed this movie. They do and say a lot of what others are thinking. But I still thought the movie was just whatever. I didn't find it funny or entertaining. It felt like more like an almost two hour bitch fest of what is wrong with America. I don't disagree with most of it. But the rant just dragged on way too long and it became very boring and I got tired of the film quite fast. Not something I would want to sit through again."

• Wildaly M

  
  I think that the satire and criticism are top-notch in this film. I could absolutely relate to what the film was trying to tell us about our current status quo. However, I still felt that more could be done with this since the plot was a little bit uneven at times. I really liked it… More
  I think that the satire and criticism are top-notch in this film. I could absolutely relate to what the film was trying to tell us about our current status quo. However, I still felt that more could be done with this since the plot was a little bit uneven at times. I really liked it overall though.

• Tyler C

  
  Outlandish, controversial, and insanely over-the-top at times, God Bless America serves as a magnum opus fantasy to those that detest the pop culture obsessions of this generation. It has no rules by any means and is very unforgiving in its content, but it's still one of the best… More
  Outlandish, controversial, and insanely over-the-top at times, God Bless America serves as a magnum opus fantasy to those that detest the pop culture obsessions of this generation. It has no rules by any means and is very unforgiving in its content, but it's still one of the best darkly comedic satires I've seen in some time.

• Nate Z

  
  Bobcat Goldthwait's (World's Greatest Dad) pitch-black social satire is something akin to Idiocracy meets Falling Down. Frank is a terminally-ill man (Joel Murray), fired from his job, and he's had enough with the coarsening of American culture. He teams up with Roxy… More
  Bobcat Goldthwait's (World's Greatest Dad) pitch-black social satire is something akin to Idiocracy meets Falling Down. Frank is a terminally-ill man (Joel Murray), fired from his job, and he's had enough with the coarsening of American culture. He teams up with Roxy (Tara Lynne Barr), a precocious teenager, and embarks on a killing spree intended to take out the people responsible for making us so mean. Nothing is subtle about Goldthwait's satire, and while the victims are easy targets (reality TV, media fearmongering, hateful religious extremists), the results are wickedly funny and entertaining on a vicarious level. Murray is given a few standout speeches about the poisoning of intelligence, the celebration of self-absorption and ignorance, and while it may be preaching to the choir, God Bless America has enough moments that make you want to stand up and salute. There is a sequence in a movie theater where Frank and Roxy kill a group of noisy, inconsiderate teenagers, and I think this part should be shown before every movie, in every theater, for the rest of time. What stops the film from being an irresponsible 90 minutes of pure cranky wish-fulfillment is that Goldthwait does not condone his killer's point of view. The movie finds ways to undercut the glamorization of what they do, whether it's robbing Frank of a movie-style "cool kill," having Roxy list off every annoyance she think is worthy of being killed over (including people who misuse the word "literally" and Diablo Cody) and having Frank reign her in, or the fact that Frank admits to finding some common ground with a blowhard pundit's political views. This is definitely a movie for a select audience, but for people with a perverse sense of humor and a sense of rising frustration and dread over the popular culture, God Bless America is the movie equivalent of a cultural enema. It's the darkest movie about manners you'll likely see in a lifetime. Nate's Grade: A-

• Aaron N

  
  Frank: I wish I was a super-genius inventor and could come up with a way to make a telephone into an explosive device that was triggered by the American Superstarz voting number. The battery could explode and leave a mark on the face, so I could know who to avoid talking to before… More
  Frank: I wish I was a super-genius inventor and could come up with a way to make a telephone into an explosive device that was triggered by the American Superstarz voting number. The battery could explode and leave a mark on the face, so I could know who to avoid talking to before they even talked. I have seen and heard a lot of Bobcat Goldthwait lately, as he has been promoting his newest film, God Bless America. Having retired from stand-up comedy nearly a decade ago, with his eyes set on being a filmmaker, he's since made some interesting (and quite good) dark comedies; including Sleeping Dogs Lie and World's Greatest Dad (Robin Williams is great in that movie). I like Bobcat Goldthwait. Listening to him now, he is very honest, funny, and brash in a good sort of way. It is unfortunate that God Bless America is not a better film. It certainly has a lot on its mind in regards to the state of America's fascination with reality television, among other things, but the film does not come together as strongly as it could. There are enough good bits in it overall to make it something worth checking out for a person that wants to enjoy a decent dark comedy/satire, it just could have been more. read the whole review at thecodeiszeek.com

• Lorenzo v

  
  <i>"Taking out the trash, one jerk at a time."</i> On a mission to rid society of its most repellent citizens, terminally ill Frank makes an unlikely accomplice in 16-year-old Roxy. <center><font size=+2 face="Century… More
  <i>"Taking out the trash, one jerk at a time."</i> On a mission to rid society of its most repellent citizens, terminally ill Frank makes an unlikely accomplice in 16-year-old Roxy. <center><font size=+2 face="Century Schoolbook"><b><u>REVIEW</u></b></font></center> Bobcat Goldthwait's scathing critique on modern pop culture is vicious, unapologetically ugly and truly hilarious. Whereas Mike Judge's "Idiocracy" was a clever yet far fetched tale of humanity gone stupid, "God Bless America" uses, with absolute precision, a scalpel to peel back layer after disturbing layer of American shallowness and cruelty. Incorporating elements of mindless pop culture, media propaganda, and reality TV cruelty and bravado, this movie perfectly illustrates the all too real (and sudden) cultural cancer that people nowadays consider entertainment. It is simultaneously hilarious and morbid. Its Idiocracy meets Natural Born Killers and for a very generic description that may suffice, but it is a far more intelligent movie than Idiocracy was (or even set out to be). Make no mistake about it, this is a very dark movie and there is more murder and blood than you could shake a swizzle stick at, yet the brutality is tempered with hilarity and witty observation that seamlessly keeps this movie always headed in the right direction - there is no confusion here, it knows exactly what it's saying. I worry this movie may fly under the radar since the typical mainstream audience is pretty much the targeted subject material here, but I think this movie is an instant classic. It so eloquently dissects all the absurdities of modern American culture, the desire for fame and to be known, the need for attention, etc. The trailer doesn't do this movie justice -- it's really good!

• Kevin C

  
  God Bless America feels more like writer director Bobcat Goldthwait channeling a combination of his sophisticated conversations about the alarming state of modern media and his condescending bar rants of how stupid everyone is than a thought-out satirical narrative. It's crazy… More
  God Bless America feels more like writer director Bobcat Goldthwait channeling a combination of his sophisticated conversations about the alarming state of modern media and his condescending bar rants of how stupid everyone is than a thought-out satirical narrative. It's crazy and it's pretty entertaining, with the exception of more than a handful of scenes where the two main characters sit around for 5 minutes and list things and people they hate, but the satire here is about as subtle and graceful as a bullet to the head.

• Reid V

  
  An extremely black comedy that is frighteningly cathartic. The satire is wildly over-the-top & sadly, pretty spot on.The blood shoots out with violent force, and the monologues are explosive and wrought with irreverence. Just the type of shocking material that our current culture… More
  An extremely black comedy that is frighteningly cathartic. The satire is wildly over-the-top & sadly, pretty spot on.The blood shoots out with violent force, and the monologues are explosive and wrought with irreverence. Just the type of shocking material that our current culture is accustomed to. Because director Bobcat Goldthwait knows that as much as the viewer may hate aspects of our society, they are still a product of it. The shtick does get a little old after a while and some observations are much more astute than others. Also, the characters are brimming with sardonic commentary but are unfortunately a little light on depth. However, Goldthwait has my respect for getting something as audacious as this made into a feature film. Anybody with even the slightest inkling that our current culture is too extreme and mean-spirited, will find themselves begrudgingly rooting for Frank, our anti-hero who finally has the balls to say "enough."

• Sam B

  
  "God Bless America" is a captivating satire of current American culture, courtesy of the warped mind of Bobcat Goldthwait, the writer/director who previously wrote the much under-appreciated Robin Williams movie "World's Greatest Dad". The film is the story of… More
  "God Bless America" is a captivating satire of current American culture, courtesy of the warped mind of Bobcat Goldthwait, the writer/director who previously wrote the much under-appreciated Robin Williams movie "World's Greatest Dad". The film is the story of one man who, with a tumor in his brain and a country lacking all sense of common decency, decides to go on a rampage, killing everyone deemed 'mean,' or 'rude,' - basically, everything wrong with America. The film mentions Jersey Shore, American Idol, Lindsay Lohan, people who are loud in movie theaters, people who park in two spots at once, and really taps in to that "shows what we all want to see" part of the brain. In other words, its an extreme case of wish fulfillment, where good people murder those who 'deserve to die', a subjective viewpoint that really starts to blur the lines of morality. While God Bless America has noticeably low production values, no sense of logic (don't see it if you get easily maddened by a lack of realism) and some of the pop culture iconography roasted in the film is a bit out of date, Goldthwait's execution is so fantastic that its easy to overlook the movie's issues. Among the great triumphs accomplished here are the two lead performances. played by not-big-name actors Joel Murray and Tara Lynne Barr, are surprisingly great, and allow audiences to sympathize with killers, . Then you have a killer script that takes its concept right where it should go. My concern with this movie was that its easy to take such a great concept like this and then squander it with a script that doesn't take full advantage of its promise (as was the main issue with the conceptually similar Mike Judge's "Idiocracy"), but God Bless America's writing is so top notch, its argument so fully explored and debated on the screen, that even if you don't agree with everything, you have to admire its thoughtfulness. By portraying characters who are at once the good guys and the murderers, it really forces audiences to think about what is good, what is bad, and what is justifiable, on a moral level. All in all, God Bless America is what would happen if Idiocracy and Martin Scorsese's classic Taxi Driver had a baby. And if that sounds like an incredibly odd combination, it is. The movie is a little crazy, and so is its director. But he's the good kind of crazy, and the film, while not perfect, really works.

• Matt G

  
  Frank: Thanks for turning off your cell phone. God Bless America is a darkly comedic take on modern American pop-culture that is able to get a rise out of anyone who is sick and tired of all these dysfunctional and convoluted reality shows. What I found interesting about this… More
  Frank: Thanks for turning off your cell phone. God Bless America is a darkly comedic take on modern American pop-culture that is able to get a rise out of anyone who is sick and tired of all these dysfunctional and convoluted reality shows. What I found interesting about this particular film were the many similarities I found to Super, another wacky film featuring a somewhat similar pattern. They both feature an adult/child teaming up to fight "evil", and the main protagonist's name is Frank in both films. God Bless America is at its most entertaining when our two leads are blowin' some jerk's head off for minor offenses - including taking two parking spots or laughing at a disabled adult sing on an American Idol-like reality show. God Bless America is basically a giant "screw you" to tech-savvy Americans. Read the whole review at creedsdelight.com

• Dann M

  
  From comedian Bobcat Goldthwait comes the dark satire God Bless America. It's the story of a mild-mannered guy who snaps after learning that he has a brain tumor, and decides to go on a killing spree. While there are a lot of funny scenes, the overall tone of the film is… More
  From comedian Bobcat Goldthwait comes the dark satire God Bless America. It's the story of a mild-mannered guy who snaps after learning that he has a brain tumor, and decides to go on a killing spree. While there are a lot of funny scenes, the overall tone of the film is inconsistent. It's trying to often some social commentary about the state of pop culture and the debasement of society, but the plot's too unfocused for its messages to have any kind of poignancy. God Bless America is an entertaining comedy, but it's weak and underdeveloped in some key areas.

• The Movie W

  
  Diagnosed with a tumour, Murray sets off on a murderous rampage, killing those he blames for society's ills while accompanied by like-minded teen Barr. With his charming directorial debut "Sleeping Dogs Lie", comedian turned film-maker Goldthwait preached tolerance.… More
  Diagnosed with a tumour, Murray sets off on a murderous rampage, killing those he blames for society's ills while accompanied by like-minded teen Barr. With his charming directorial debut "Sleeping Dogs Lie", comedian turned film-maker Goldthwait preached tolerance. I'm not sure what happened to him over the last few years but here he's spouting a vile message of intolerance. Leopold and Loeb couldn't have come up with such a self-indulgent liberal intellectual superiority fantasy. Last year with "Midnight In Paris", Woody Allen showed us how despite our frustrations with modern culture, the grass is never greener on the other side. There's no convincing Goldthwait of this, his fantasy grass is lush and emerald. He wants us to sympathise with Murray as he massacres those who represent the worst of contemporary pop culture. The character sits in front of his TV constantly scorning the garbage he flicks through. Somebody should have told him about those things called DVD's which contain almost the entire history of film and TV for your viewing pleasure. If you don't like reality TV, DON'T WATCH IT! At one point Murray guns down a young retarded man. His crime? Exploiting his lack of intelligence to become a success on "American Superstars" a popular talent show. Just like Goldthwait himself so. In case you don't know who Goldthwait is, he found fame in the eighties by playing a retarded character in the "Police Academy" movies. In the nineties he once set fire to the stage while a guest on Jay Leno. But now that he wears black-rimmed glasses we're supposed to forget all that? "Liberal hypocrisy" is a phrase I find myself using a lot in reference to recent American cinema. For someone who made an entire movie about accepting bestiality, Goldthwait expresses a lot of sexual hangups here. He uses Barr's character to preach hatred of "paedophiles" despite the fact that she's a grown woman not a child. Those who rant so much about the sexual preferences of others usually have a few issues with their own. At one point our Bonnie and Brevik duo profess a desire to live in France because we all know there's no reality TV in Europe right? If Goldthwait is so unhappy with his country maybe he should move to China and make culturally "important" films for the state. But of course he proudly claims to make films for himself first and his audience second. Only in America!

• Joey S

  
  Funny in the sickest of ways, this outrageously violent movie takes disdain for what American culture has become, then takes it a step further. If you need an example of how violent this movie can be at times, in the first scene a baby is shot with a shotgun. The movie is without a… More
  Funny in the sickest of ways, this outrageously violent movie takes disdain for what American culture has become, then takes it a step further. If you need an example of how violent this movie can be at times, in the first scene a baby is shot with a shotgun. The movie is without a doubt not for everyone; I'm sure many people who watch it will be disgusted with its brutality and lack of significant consequences for the two protagonists, and I can completely see why. The movie is made to be hyperbolic, so don't expect a single moment of subtlety in its message or content, it is extremely graphic. However, if you are able to laugh at the outlandishness of the movie, and understand the frustration of the main characters, this can be a fun, albeit imperfect, movie.

• Ryan M

  
  *** out of **** Have you ever stared into the glowing box that is your television and realized that the other box that serves as its central drive - the cable box - is filled with so much utter shit? Have you ever wanted to just shoot that one asshole dead who takes up two parking… More
  *** out of **** Have you ever stared into the glowing box that is your television and realized that the other box that serves as its central drive - the cable box - is filled with so much utter shit? Have you ever wanted to just shoot that one asshole dead who takes up two parking spots in the lot with a single car? Have you ever felt as if the world just doesn't give a shit anymore? All of these things seem to apply to Bobcat Goldthwait, whose "God Bless America" is a delightfully demented ode to the disturbing fantasies that are born from our hatred for our own nation's simple-minded culture. Goldthwait takes on reality television (or just mindless television in general), ignorant celebrities, the wealthy, the Westborough Baptist Church (although the people in the film holding the "God Hates Fags" signs are never directly named), and just about anyone or anything else you can think of that would possibly piss someone off. Truth is, every culture has its pros and cons; although this is a deeply cynical film that disregards the pros all-together and only seeks to focus on the cons. Sad sack Frank Murdoch (Joel Murray) has had enough. Divorced, lonely, and depressed; he sits in his apartment every night staring into his flat-screen, trying to block out the cries of the baby next door. He wakes up after a rather bleak night of TV-watching to a Bad Day. If you don't know what makes a Bad Day oh-so-bad, take Frank's situation for example: he is fired from his job for sending flowers to the woman at the front desk, and then goes to the doctor's office to check up on problems he's been having with migraines, only to be informed by the profanity-spewing doctor that he is terminally ill. Frank returns home and intends to put a bullet in his head to end it all. But then, he sees something on television that is something of a revelation for him; a spoiled rich high school girl who - with her stupid parents - is the star of a reality television program. Frank steals his neighbor's car and drives to the girl's high school, where he locks her in the car that her parents got her but she doesn't even want and shoots her right in the face. Another high school girl named Roxy (Tara Lynn Barr) witnessed the murder. Instead of disgust, she expresses awe. She follows Frank to the motel where he's staying, manages to persuade him to not kill himself and instead kill the parents of the girl he murdered earlier, and then works her way into the role of his accomplice. From then on, the two go on a killing spree in which the victims are just about anyone around them who comes off as stupid or ignorant. They've certainly got range; everyone from cruel television political commentator to the judges on a program that very closely resembles a meaner version of "American Idol". Frank just wants to spread a message across America; that our culture - our country - is deteriorating, and not enough people recognize it. Indeed, this is going to anger a lot of the people who watch it. Goldthwait clearly didn't make this film for everyone to enjoy. He made it (1.) for himself and (2.) for those who are at least somewhat like him and share his skewered sense of humor and critical views of our society. Nobody can argue with the points that the film is making; although whether you and its morals are on the same page, well, that's up to just how much you loath popular culture. Goldthwait is a perfectly sane human being and I imagine he would never do any of what his characters do in the film, but sometimes the movies are exactly the place to voice the things we would like to do but are amoral. So there you have it. I know that I've definitely fantasized about the things these characters do, but would I ever actually do them? No, because it's amoral; and this film is amoral, but at least it has the self-respect and pride to know it. If it attempted to provide its story with a moral core, it wouldn't have worked as well as it does. The film probably sets out to make the audience uncomfortable. The relationship between Roxy and Frank is strange; she doesn't see anything wrong with having sex with an older man, although he explains to her that he can kill a high school girl but not fuck one. Seems logical enough to me; this in itself is yet another criticism of our morals. In entertainment, we see that a lot; sex treated as if it's worse than violence, especially in cinema. I suppose the two get along in a strictly platonic relationship because they are both a couple of freaks; and to understand a freak, you kind of have to be one. The film is laden with entertaining dialogue that skillfully illustrates Goldthwait's opinions. You don't have to agree with them, and he does a lot of preaching; but at the same time, I agree with everything he says. Unless, of course, that counts going on a killing spree because you hate society. This film probably won't inspire anyone. But if it does, it's because these things did not originate from the movie itself. Maybe it's time for America to wake the hell up, for only then can I say God Bless.

• Panta O

  
  I could imagine that this movie won't be popular with most of the Americans... even if it claims that is a black comedy which combines elements of political satire. This film was written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait, and stars Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr and Mackenzie… More
  I could imagine that this movie won't be popular with most of the Americans... even if it claims that is a black comedy which combines elements of political satire. This film was written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait, and stars Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr and Mackenzie Brooke Smith, and I have to say, it is an unusually honest view of the today's American society and its shallowness. The story of Frank (Joel Murray) is not a rare one: after being fired from his job and diagnosed with a brain tumour he is about to commit suicide while watching TV... but decides to instead go on a killing spree and rid the world of rude and annoying people or "people that deserve to die". The strength of the convictions is something that really impressed me, and I admire the courage shown from the beginning to the end in criticizing the "sick parts" of the society... and they are many! A little bit flat at some parts in directing this is still very strong performing satire with good actors and inspiring drive forward toward a change!

• Sundeep B

  
  God Bless America (2012) Like the satire in the title, the movie is a razor sharp criticism of today's society and the media that helps perpetrate the vulgarity and garishness of this curse. The protagonists Frank and Roxy's monologues come out beautifully in a well thought… More
  God Bless America (2012) Like the satire in the title, the movie is a razor sharp criticism of today's society and the media that helps perpetrate the vulgarity and garishness of this curse. The protagonists Frank and Roxy's monologues come out beautifully in a well thought out, sharp dialog when they reach the end of their patience with the pretentious, fake, robotic, commercially bough out society and thus begins the rampage, that too in a sunshine yellow Camaro, no less! Joel Murry as Frank is unassuming and very well cast and Tara Lynn Barr reminds me of Dokota Fanning, what comes to help is an ultra hip soundtrack .Death to TV!!! ABSOLUTELY MUST WATCH.

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