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THE most brilliant satire of American culture to ever hit the SCREEN. I am going to praise this film highly in this review so I wish to stress that there is one animated show to which it cannot, willl not, and does not hold a candle. I am talking about The Simpsons. The Simpsons is a mass parody of American culture that succeeds independently of media attention and long after the death of Bartmania. That said this is a funny movie. Being from a small town in Arkansas, the song Uncle F***er was a shocker and a great release for me. In fact the heart of the movie is its unmasking of the insane obsession Americans have with cursing. The characters in the film favor inflicting pain on children, starting a war, kidnapping, demagogory, and commiting murder as long as the people who get hurt were using dirty words. That is what is known as embarrassingly and frighteningly misplaced priorities. This film teaches three lessons America must learn. 1). There are NO BAD WORDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There are only bad thoughts and bad intentions. Words themselves are innocent whereas people are not. 2). Violence is worse than anything, including sex and "bad language". 3). The only ones who usually don't get blamed for the corruption of children are their parents and that is insane. The point of this film is not fart jokes but rather that we are offended by them so.

-Frank

The ONLY comedy CBS has ANY right to tout. The freshest, funniest, and most poignant family comedy to come about since "Home Improvement". Ray Romano is going places. He represents an alternative to the Seinfeldian fussy cynics that got TV shows before him. Comedy cannot be polite. It can be nice but it is hard to pull off. "Everybody Loves Raymond" is the great and lone protector of nice comedy on television.

This film is my inspiration. The reason for that is that I am from Arkansas. We have the worst public educational system in all of the United States. There are three reasons for this. 1). Sports dominates and takes attention away from academic activities. 2). Our grading scale ridiculously lax (90% equals an "A"). 3). The people believe the system can't be changed because the students are too dumb and the people running the system are too corrupt. I might have become one of the people who had given up if not for "Lean on Me". Even though I am only 18 I am considering a future school board run in which I will improve the system and hire compentent officials. Everyone I have told this to says one of two things. "You can't win or things can't change." "Lean on Me says that if one has the audacity, the tenacity, and the capacity to change the system for the better they must. Some things you can never give up on. You can't give up on justice, you can't give up on freedom, and you can't give up on education.

-Frank