
Hollwood mocks Hollywood
Review created: 10/06/06(updated 10/06/06)

The only people allowed to laugh at Hollywood are those who have become massive successes in tinseltown. So Barry Levinson, Dustin Hoffman and Robert de Niro are alowed mocking privileges denied to lesser mortals. In this film they combine in a fast-moving, brilliant spoof. The President has been caught in a sexual misdemeanour and Robert de Niro is hired to divert the public's attention from the news. To achieve this he collaborates with Dustin Hoffman to present the public with a war in Albania, created and viewed on television according to the rules of Hollywood. The war exists only on television and is ended when a political opponent states on television that the war is over. The only reality is "I saw it on television". Hoffman refuses to accept that "his" war is ended and a surrealistic sequence of events unfolds to resuscitate the illusion of an ongoing war and its aftermath. Reality finally takes over when the spin is successful and government takes steps to gather any loose threads. The film breaks all the rules (no love interest, no titanic struggle of good and evil) and succeeds in building fantasy on fantasy to produce a magnificent spoof that manages to out-Lewinsky the Lewinsky story.
Review ID: 10000000002021651

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