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An American Carol, David Zucker's broad blast at the American left and the creative offspring of a Republican Jewish Coalition shidduch between Zucker and co-writer Myrna Sokoloff, opened this weekend - and it's tanking.

It's more or less tied with, of all things, Bill Maher's Religulous, but that's deceptive - Maher's film is a documentary (they traditionally underperform) and opened in a third of the theaters.

The almost universally thumbs down "Carol" got from reviewers probably didn't help. Best (reviewer) line so far: "I laughed harder at Munich." I guess it's not a great sign when the reviews raise more laughs than the movie.

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Shmuly

10/06/08 06:53 PM

I saw them both. On the same night. American Carol was SO lame. Religulous was funny.

Natan

10/06/08 11:02 PM

I saw American Carol and thought it was very funny. So did the other people I was sitting with in the movie theater. 

I would not spend one cent to see anything by Bill Maher.

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