Review of The Campaign (2012) by Jens T — 04 Feb 2013

The Campaign is a satire that was released some months before the presidential election between Obama and Romney. In this film on the other hand it's not a presidential election, but a congress election in North Carolina, between the long-term congressman, Cam Brady (Will Farrell) and the inexperienced tour guide, Marty Huggins (Zack Galifianakis) which is pretty much just a puppet for the corrupt business men, the Motch brothers (John Lithgow and Dan Aykroyd) who plans to move labour workers from china to america, in order to get cheeper labor.

The Campaign is a hilarious film with great comic performances all over the place. You couldn't have asked for a better cast. And of course the typical american political debates is just hilarious, with it's typical exaggerating, like when Ferrell is accusing Galifianakis of being a member of Al-Qaeda because of his mustache. Or when Galifianakis is confronting Ferrell with a drawing that Ferrell draw in second grade. There's simply no limits for what they would do to humiliate each other. Yes it is exaggerating, but american politics is so ridiculous that to really make a comedy out of something that is ridiculous in the first place, you really need to exaggerate. Thumbs up.