NY Post Movie Reviewer Hilariously Pans 'Che'

NewsBusters ^ | December 17, 2008 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

It looks like the best thing about the movie "Che" is the absolutely devastating but hilarious review given to you by New York Post writer Kyle Smith. The movie which glorifies the life of communist thug Che Guevara seems doomed to bomb at the box office since it runs for over 4 very tedious hours plus the fact that it is yet another in a long line of leftwing propaganda films promoted by Hollywood that always seem doomed to failure. The entertainment value of this movie, unless you are an Obama supporter with a Che Guevara flag on the wall, seems to be quite limited but the Post review of the propaganda film, Che It Ain't So, is quite entertaining:

MEET Che Guevara. Just think of him as Jesus plus Abraham Lincoln with a touch of Moses and Dr. Doug Ross. After 4½ hours of watching Dr. Ernesto "Che" Guevara heal the sick, teach the illiterate, daze the women, execute the lawless, defeat the corrupt, uplift the peasantry and spew the sound bite, I was convinced there would be a scene in which he turned water to Bacardi.

You can't spell cliché without "Che." And as I endured this mad dream directed - or perhaps committed - by Steven Soderbergh, I wondered where I'd seen it all before. The booted stomping through the greensward, the jungly target shooting? It's a remake of Woody Allen's "Bananas," right? Minus punch lines - or perhaps with them. "We are in a difficult situation," Che observes, at a point when his army is surrounded and forced to eat its horses.

[PJ-Comix]

This movie is so long that they actually make you return to see Part 2. Unbelievable. Can you say "Box Office Bomb?"

[PJ-Comix]

PING!

[Abathar]

The DUmmie review of it should be fun to read though...

[gridlock]

Best movie since...

[Long Island Pete]

How many academy awards will this win? As long as you do a film about gays, dictators and those who hate America, it’s a winner in Hollyweird.

[IYAS9YAS]

You can't spell cliché without "Che."

Belly laugh!

[sweet_diane]

I’m sure it will have a long list of Academy Award noms! rofl

[jalisco555]

I predict the same stunning box office success of Soderbergh’s last movie, The Good German.

[cowboyway]

"This isn't a movie so much as a siege. When the screen flashed "Day 302," I thought it was updating me on how long I had spent in the theater without food, water or access to the Red Cross."

Now that's funny.

[RetiredArmy]

Further proof that hollyweird is communist and the left is communist. You don't put this crap on unless you love these people and they love Castro, Chavez and the gang. Carter and Dan Blather both love Castro. They never met a left winged communist they did not slobber over.

[nufsed]

There's an old French silent movie about Napoleon. Five hours or so. We actually got a 2 hour dinner break. It was unique at the time. Sepia color during the battle scenes triple split screens. Very interesting.

As for CHE, no thanx, I saw the T-shirt.

[STONEWALLS]

...I remember when Che was executed in Bolivia....it made me glad....and that’s the way we should handle Bin Laden too when the time comes....no trials for the NY Times to wring their hands over....just shoot him and photograph the corpse....then allow the men who capture him to loot his body for weapons, rings, Rolex or any other souvenirs they desire.

[henkster]

This is prime Oscar material. So is “Milk.” Just saw an ad for it; all the ad said, no less than three times, is that Rolling Stone says its the Picture of the Year. OK, gotta be a homo movie. And yet another bomb.

Maybe Michael Moore and Oliver Stone could do a combination of “Che” and “Milk” and call it “MilkChe.” It could be about a gay revolutionary and his merry men doing whatever out in a wooded public park where they make believe they are “urban guerillas.” Of course there will be many long speeches about advancing the proletarian revolution, and maybe raising fashion consciousness. The Rolling Stone review will wax poetic about how the movie shows “how man’s inhumanity to man transcends the class struggle.” It would sweep every Oscar award.

[conservativeharleyguy]

If he hadn't been executing every camposino in sight, he wouldn't have had to eat his horses. The locals would have fed him. Instead, he abused and exploited them and they hated him. The peasants who turned him in walked dozens of miles to do so. They just wanted him gone.

The only people who ever loved him when he was alive were eurotrash reds and American radical hippies. Hell, even the damned Castros ran him out of Cuba when they got tired of him killing doctors, teachers, professors, and political enemies. They were starting to wonder if they might be next. He was a liability to them. He became worth a lot more to them as a dead martyr than he ever was as a living killer.

[libertarian27]

As for CHE, no thanx, I saw the T-shirt.

You owe me a keyboard!

[ml/nj]

Pull quote from the review:

This isn't a movie so much as a siege. When the screen flashed "Day 302," I thought it was updating me on how long I had spent in the theater without food, water or access to the Red Cross.

ML/NJ

[repubpub]

If it's previewed at Redfords Sundance “movies for Commies week” it's going to clean house.

[gridlock]

You can't spell cliché without "Che."

Pay this reviewer a bonus and send him home until January. He will not come up with anything better this year.

[nufsed]

I hope it wasn’t oatmeal.

[demshateGod]

I wish I understood what the reviewer was talking about because that other guy said it what was hilarious. It just basically read like words strung together to me, a dummy.