Recycled jokes, one-dimensional characters and no character development, and a strange cocktail of (not very funny) comedy cum Michael Mooreish political satire cum John Grisham thriller. Didn’t work for me at all. Much laughter from the rest of the cinema made me think it was a nationality thing even though I’d been informed by the friend who dragged me along what the premise meant given the existence of a similar celebrity character in the US (I’m Australian, was watching it in Canada), but my flatmate told me later the critics slammed it too. Re the laughing from others, I wouldn’t take that to mean anything good either. I’ve since learnt that people here just seem to laugh a lot in the cinema. It’s like having a laugh track on a prime time comedy: it erupts periodically but it doesn’t mean it’s funny. :P