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This week's movies, update: American Dreamz - 43% positive reviews

• This is the lampoon of President Bush and American Idol. I haven't seen it, but to tell you the truth, the negative reviews seem to have consistently ignored what the movie actually did and whined about how they wanted it to be angrier, not so safe and good-natured, not so affectionate and generous, less of a sitcom and more of a harangue.
• In other words, if you prefer laughs to anger, you may like it better than the approval numbers might indicate. Ebert and Gleiberman both praised it, while acknowledging that it's more of a screwball sitcom than an angry satire.