2008 / David Zucker > This was a chance for the right to satirize the left in the mainstream market. It had over 1,600 theatres in its widest release, a number generally saved for moderately marketed studio pictures and often guaranteeing superior exposure to the rest of the industry. And opening right before the elections was the best timing it could have gotten to give McCain that slight edge. But no, leave it to Zucker to shit the can once again. It can now be understood that Airplane! was a fluke (and BASEketball was more Trey Parker and Matt Stone than him). He, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer have become the bane of Hollywood. But we can only blame them so much if the tickets continue to sell. Unfortunately, there’s a market for those who find Judd Apatow to be too highbrow, and there’s not much anyone can do about that. Nonetheless, An American Carol is lazy and insulting. It makes Uwe Boll’s Postal look like a modern day Jonathan Swift work. Ignore it, and leave Zucker to wonder why the film did so bad at the box office. Leave him wondering so he never releases another film again.