More Than Once Upon a Time

I’d heard this flick gives W. a fairly brutal beating, and what I’d heard was right. After starting very slowly (and cringingly - luckily the movie spends very little time in Guantanamo), things start to pick up at about the thirty minute mark. And then they just keep getting better and better! Dougie Howser returns! Harold and Kumar smoke up with a sitting president! The governemnt nerd has his moment, then wrecks it by falling (literally) back into nerd-dom.

In a lot of ways, this movie was the opposite of its predecessor, which started hysterically and gradually stopped being funny. And the satire was pointed more at the bullying Bush style of government than at W himself. Very broadly done, but very funny.

Had it not been for the beginning, I could even say I liked the whole thing.