America: The Motion Picture
In Netflix's R-rated animated comedy America: The Motion Picture , Channing Tatum plays a chainsaw-wielding George Washington who gathers a group of historical "Avengers" to exact revenge on werewolf Benedict Arnold (Andy Samberg) for killing Abraham Lincoln. The film reimagines the American Revolution as a profane, anachronistic action blockbuster. Produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and directed by Matt Thompson ( Archer ), the film combines every possible anachronism, including Robocop centaurs , beer pong, machine guns, Blue Man Group , and Thomas Edison as a woman (Olivia Munn), into a "non-stop barrage of jokes" that a website likened to Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker classics like Airplane! . Clearly understanding the task, the voice cast—which includes Simon Pegg as King James and Jason Mantzoukas as frat-bro Sam Adams—delivers fast-paced lunacy that occasionally lands with true brilliance, especially when mocking American jingoism and dude-bro cu...
