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God Bless America

R Released May 11, 2012 1h 47m Comedy List
66% Tomatometer 114 Reviews 68% Audience Score 25,000+ Ratings
Fed up with the cruelty and stupidity of American culture, an unlikely duo (Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr) team up to whack reality TV stars, bigots and others they find repugnant. Read More Read Less
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A darkly comic polemic on modern culture, God Bless America is uneven and somewhat this but the ideas behind this revenge fulfillment journey has primal appeal.

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David Stratton At the Movies (Australia) If you can take that premise, I think you'll go along with the film and it's really, in its very weird way, quite funny. Rated: 3.5/5 Nov 15, 2012 Full Review Jake Wilson The Age (Australia) Gory, unfunny satire that deserves a prize for the most strained provocation of the year. Rated: 1.5/5 Nov 15, 2012 Full Review Tara Brady Irish Times Murray and Barr make for winning platonic chemistry even when Frank suspects himself of impure thoughts. Goldthwait holds his nerve as the film shifts from ennui to malevolent gleefulness. Rated: 4/5 Aug 3, 2012 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review God Bless America cries out for a change in a funny, shocking, unflinching manner and probes the depths of what it means to be a black comedy. Rated: 3.5/4 Oct 17, 2022 Full Review Jordan M. Smith IONCINEMA.com For many of us, this garbage is getting old, and with God Bless America, Goldthwait has allowed us a cathartic outpouring of violence that offers a brief stopgap for our current sensory oppression. Nov 19, 2020 Full Review Ed Travis Hollywood Jesus What fundamentally didn't work for me was that all of the wit, humorous rants, and social commentary felt like they were aimed squarely at pop culture. Mar 31, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Jeffrey P A dark comedy, in the fullest sense of the term, that pulls no punches and really pushes the limits. From the opening scene you'll know if it has the edge you need or if it's just too much. Some of the diatribes and social commentary are borderline great and second to none... because most films won't go as far as this did. God bless America, indeed, the only country something like this can be made and distributed to the public. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/25/24 Full Review cameron c I kinda enjoyed the movie in 2011, but damn, this really didn't age well. It's still well acted and everything, but I don't think you can feel any satisfaction watching the main character shoot up a cinema in 2023. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 12/07/23 Full Review Lying I One of those guilty pleasure movies. All of us once in a while get cynical and want to just kill someone but would never do it. In this movie, you can watch others do it against a cliched comedic backdrop. No serious messages in this film, nothing to learn, just a fun (but dark and bloody) movie with great acting and chemistry between an unconventional and unlikely duo. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/26/23 Full Review Yuri B This movie was wild. Even I couldn't believe how much ish went down. Those two went on a bloody damn rampage. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member It's an awful premise, and I laughed through all of it! The acting is great, the jokes are hilarious and dark, and the characters are well developed for such an absurd movie. It is a very dark movie and has some very odd/weird (bordering on gross) character dynamics and story lines but the fact that it sticks to the dark theme through out the movie and never breaks character makes it well worth the watch. It may not be for the faint of heart but for those that love dark and sarcastic comedy that parodies the absurdities of our society there is no better movie to watch than this. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review corkball Points for an interesting premise - man with inoperable brain tumor decides to go out in a blaze of glory by killing people who are obnoxious. Meets a teenage girl and they become a Bonnie & Clyde killing team. Amazingly not as dark as you would think. Couple of issues.... Murray has always been a supporting character - he doesn't strike me as a leading man. He gives a couple of cringy speeches as to why he is mad as hell and not gonna take it - this has been done MUCH better in other movies. Barr is supposed to be a teen, but she comes off as a 29 year old Che Guevara. There is some insightful and funny dialogue, but there is also some awful dialogue, and when you are making a movie like this, better to take your politics off the table. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Fed up with the cruelty and stupidity of American culture, an unlikely duo (Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr) team up to whack reality TV stars, bigots and others they find repugnant.
Director
Bobcat Goldthwait
Producer
Sean McKittrick, Jeff Culotta
Screenwriter
Bobcat Goldthwait
Distributor
Magnolia Pictures
Production Co
Darko Entertainment
Rating
R (Some Sexual Sequences|Language|Strong Violence)
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 11, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$122.0K
Runtime
1h 47m
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