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1/4
More insulting than funny
The M.O.W. - wrote on 08/02/2008
The President of the United States of America (Alan Alda) is doing miserable in the polls. So, on the advice of his advisors, he declares a Cold War on Canada. And the people of Niagra Falls, New York, are solidly behind the new anti-Canada stance of the country. Especially since its weapons maker, the biggest employer in town, was closing down and auctioning off its constructed weapons built for the US military to the citizens of the town at very low prices.
The cat is pretty good, and do a pretty good job with an unfunny script. John Candy, who was a Canadian, was real good at tossing what many could take as insulting stereotypical jokes. To make things worse, this was Candy's completed movie before his death ("Wagons East" being his final film, but it was completed with a …
