America: The Motion Picture
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): June 30, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
38
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
9
Negative:
5
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonJul 1, 2021
One of the funny things about America: The Motion Picture—not all of which is screamingly funny—is that the more you know about America’s past, the more amusing it probably is (the past and the film). Read full review
70
VarietyMichael NordineJul 1, 2021
No aspect of history is off-limits here, the result being a grab bag of references, battles, and jokes that are constantly trying to one-up each other in terms of absurdity. Read full review
70
IGNMatt FowlerJun 30, 2021
America: The Motion Picture is like Drunk History if the history were not only drunk but also on nitrous. Channing Tatum once again proves he's a comedy force to be reckoned with, backed by a stellar cast of capable and cunning joke spitters. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoJun 30, 2021
Producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller bring that non-stop energy of their other projects like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and The Mitchells vs. the Machines even if the writing sometimes feels bizarrely dated. Read full review
60
SlateRebecca OnionJun 30, 2021
The movie is at its best when it can revel in inventiveness, scrappiness, and camaraderie, and you feel the “We’re coming together! We’re beating the Big Bad!” vibes run through you. Read full review
50
The New York TimesAmy NicholsonJul 1, 2021
A raunchy, aggressively inane cartoon that flips the bird — both onscreen and thematically — to a strain of patriotism that insists that men who profited from slavery were sober-minded heroes whose vision of democracy remains flawless, bro. Read full review
50
IndieWireSteve GreeneJun 30, 2021
The more that America: The Motion Picture relies on straight parody, the sparser those laughs feel. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubWilliam HughesJun 30, 2021
Gory, horny, and at least visually bold, America is almost always fun to gawk at, even when the writing is letting it down. But that writing is a real problem. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJun 25, 2021
The film goes all in on its deranged version of the founding of the nation. It wears you down over time, but especially early on it's too satisfied just to be shocking and irreverent. Read full review
42
The PlaylistChristian GallichioJul 7, 2021
America: The Motion Picture only works in fits and starts, more a series of discrete parodies than coherent film. While some of these moments are amusing, and occasionally laugh out loud funny, most are only mildly entertaining. Read full review
40
The GuardianCharles BramescoJun 30, 2021
Under Callaham’s inelegant pen, the characters all speak in this overexcited 13-year-old’s vernacular, prone to F-bombs and dick-talk. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeJun 30, 2021
A throw-everything-against-the-wall collection of silly jokes that reimagines American history as a bro-tastic action flick, Matt Thompson’s animated film makes Drunk History look like a Ken Burns production. Read full review
40
CNNBrian LowryJun 29, 2021
For the most part, America: The Motion Picture seems too pleased with itself, an indulgence in silliness that feels woefully stretched at close to 100 minutes. Read full review
30
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiJul 2, 2021
The concept is promising, and the violent delirium of the movie's visuals show that this could have been a fun, adrenaline-fueled romp. Instead, it's just an unfunny comedy that leaves a bad taste in one's mouth. Read full review
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The TelegraphSam LeithJul 8, 2021
I mean, it’s really dumb: steroidally dumb, dumb not in a charming, laughter-provoking way but just in a clunking, vulgar, relentless, random smutty jokes about handjobs way. Read full review
15
PolygonSamantha NelsonJun 30, 2021
Any goodwill provided by the concept or cast is utterly squandered by a film that packs in endless references without having anything whatsoever to say. Read full review
15
Paste MagazineBrianna ZiglerJun 30, 2021
It is obnoxious, overlong, annoying and, above all, deeply unfunny. Read full review
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San Francisco ChronicleChris VognarJun 29, 2021
America: The Motion Picture isn’t really a failure, because it doesn’t even try. Read full review
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