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News Movie
Review date: 02.10.2008
Our rating:
Best known for headlines like ‘Drugs Win Drugs War’, The Onion has been the internet’s leading provider of sharp media satire for years, parodying shoddy reporting and yellow journalism and attracting a devoted following in the process.
With that pedigree a movie written by The Onion’s writing team and targeting TV news should be one of the year’s comedic high points. Sadly News Movie has abandoned edgy wit in favour of tasteless gags directed at soft targets.
The DVD presentation does little to mitigate the disappointment, with the only extras being outtakes and deleted scenes as crude as those that made it into the film.