Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal — the Movie review: is Trump beyond parody?
This mini-movie from Adam McKay’s online comedy channel Funny Or Die is full of good lines, but is trumped by the self-satire of its subject
If you’ve watched the recent Republican TV debate in which Donald Trump deliberately hung back in the wings as he was announced — so that he could come on stage last, and thereby prove himself to be the most important guy in the room — you’ll know that he has already gone beyond satire. Like Henry Kissinger’s Nobel Peace Prize, Donald Trump’s sensational success has rendered satire obsolete.
But his decreasingly funny pre-eminence now gives us this bravura mini-movie from Funny Or Die, Adam McKay’s online comedy channel; it stars Johnny Depp as the bequiffed micro-fascist himself, ranting and pontificating and pointing at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, in a very funny latex-enhanced performance comparable to his South Boston gangster...
If you’ve watched the recent Republican TV debate in which Donald Trump deliberately hung back in the wings as he was announced — so that he could come on stage last, and thereby prove himself to be the most important guy in the room — you’ll know that he has already gone beyond satire. Like Henry Kissinger’s Nobel Peace Prize, Donald Trump’s sensational success has rendered satire obsolete.
But his decreasingly funny pre-eminence now gives us this bravura mini-movie from Funny Or Die, Adam McKay’s online comedy channel; it stars Johnny Depp as the bequiffed micro-fascist himself, ranting and pontificating and pointing at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, in a very funny latex-enhanced performance comparable to his South Boston gangster...
- 2/11/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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