Why?


The credits show a lot of foolish money schemes were tapped to fund this project, so the film-makers clearly got a free ride, but my question is "why did you bother?"

The film has Swedish people playing Americans, but this is done 'straight' and not as part of the comedy. Why was this a 'good' idea? The cast automatically looks and sounds third-rate as result.

The 'story'- dear lord how many times has this 'original' concept been done before, and always far better. There are a LOT of people-eating-people comedy horrors from the 1990s, and the whole sub-genre has been pretty much 'tapped-out'.

The 'writing'? Never funny, never original, never inspired. The films that are supposedly 'parodied' and 'skewered' are already parodies in the first place. I guess Swedish viewers lose something in 'translation' and don't realise this. You cannot take the mickey out of films that are already taking the mickey.

And what on Earth is with the 'political correctness'? Where were the T+A, for heaven's sake. This film vilely took the same approach as current US media output, where showing a naked breast is 'disgusting' but showing a young woman being 'gutted' is funny and entertaining. It is as if this film caught an illness from Hollywood. BUT the Hollywood 'gross-out' comedies and comedy-horrors almost always contain gratuitous nudity. What were the film-makers behind 'American Burger' thinking?

Sadly, there is ZERO reason to recommend anyone to watch 'American Burger'. If a person thinks they would enjoy one or more of the themes, there is a wealth of vastly more entertaining films of this type already long in existence that are well worth digging out.

Too many new film-makers, especially of horror, are producing movies with no merit whatsoever, because they are lazy when it comes to KNOWING the genre, and learning its history. A good script essentially overcomes most other limitations of low budget production. A poor script ruins everything.

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