FDR: American Badass! Movie Download

3 / 10

Sort of like a history lesson told by 7th graders who are on acid–but it VERY quickly loses momentum
“FDR: American Badass!” is a very frustrating movie. While I loved the audacity of the plot and loved some of the VERY low humor, the film, overall, is pretty bad. It looks like a film that really needed a rewrite here and there and the low humor was sometimes so low that it made me feel ashamed to watch it. In fact, eventually I just turned the thing off–it was that bad.

The film starts off wonderfully….really wonderfully. In fact, it was so good I was expecting to love the film. In this bizarre alternate reality, it’s 1931 and Franklin Roosevelt CAN walk. However, he and his friends are attacked by a Nazi werewolf and FDR kills it–but only after it bites him and gives him polio!! These scenes and those in the hospital, though crude, made me laugh out loud several times. I was ashamed of myself…but it WAS very funny.

Unfortunately, what follows proved that although they had a great idea, the writers didn’t have any more. The film was filled with too much scatological humor (I am talking about REALLY scatological–literally) and the repeated sexual references become boring and boorish. In fact, it starts to look like a movie written by a group of 7th graders–really, really crude ones at that. In fact, the film degenerated quickly to a totally unfunny mess. I turned it off when you see Roosevelt Jr. talking a dumb in a pitcher (and they showed it). Why?! What’s funny about this? Who would give them money to make this? Were they drunk or on acid when they made this?! I dunno–all I know is that after initially loving the film, I quickly tired of it and couldn’t take any more.Read More