American Dreamz

[Miss Muffet]

Reality TV just got blown up for the big screen, and this movie seriously takes the mic!

For his latest sizzling instalment of hit US TV talent fest American Dreamz, limelight loving hunk of a host Martin Tweed (Hugh Grant) is after something special from this season’s celeb obsessed suckers.

And the ratings are sure to rocket with this lot! Sally (Mandy Moore) is a camera craving fame fanatic with a sickeningly sour off screen persona, an apparently undumpable dufus of a boyfriend (Chris Klein) and the mother of all pushy parents (Jennifer Coolidge).

But her biggest rival comes in the form of lovable Broadway fan and terrorist-in-training Omer, who is unwittingly caught up in the competition and forced forth to the finals by his superiors.

Add to this crazed cocktail a rapping Jew, and you could say Tweed has his explosive combination…in more ways than one.

Appearing in the show’s grand finale as guest judge to boost his own dwindling public profile, President Joe Staton (Dennis Quaid) places himself in the firing line for Omer’s terrorist piers who use their bumbling brother in their bid to bomb the bigwig in front of the nation!

In a world where we’re all too familiar with the obsession with fame and the talent show format, the satirical comic twist to this film is dark, daring, terrifyingly timely and alarmingly funny.

Creator Paul Weitz (About a Boy, American Pie) laces the plot with both cultural and political commentary, and pitches ‘reality’ TV against real life through his sarcastic yet scarily sincere slant on the American dream.

We can’t guarantee you’ll be blown away by the ending, but this movie has a thought provoking pop at the weird and wonderful ways of the world and is one that shouldn’t be missed.

American Dreamz hits cinemas on April 21st
Certificate 12A