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THE CAMPAIGN

What You Need To Know:

THE CAMPAIGN opens with Congressman Cam Brady proclaiming his allegiance to America, Jesus, and Freedom. He then has illicit sex with a female fan. Brady wears his insincerity on his sleeve. Marty Huggins, a naive simpleton, is convinced by his wealthy father and his evil businessmen friends to run against Brady. They back Marty with a huge campaign budget, in a plan to open Chinese factories importing cheap labor from China at less than 50¢ per hour. The campaign that follows is dirty politics in the extreme.

THE CAMPAIGN is just an excuse to mercilessly mock American politics, religion, and business, including Christianity. It contains a series of scenes too obscene to give details about in public. The content includes illicit sex, crude humor and much foul language. One joke involves children. Other jokes involve getting bit while worshiping with snake handlers and getting an opponent arrested for drunk driving. THE CAMPAIGN is an abhorrent, politically correct comedy attacking Christianity and American capitalism. THE CAMPAIGN is just another assault on civility and decency.

Content:

(PaPaPa, PCPCPC, AbAbAb, ACapACapACap, LLL, VV, SS, NN, Ho, AAA, DD, MMM) Very strong pagan, politically correct worldview repeatedly mocking Christianity and Capitalism comes under severe ridicule when big campaign contributors seek to buy influence to do evil things to increase their profits: 56 obscenities (many strong) and nine profanities, discussion of letting gas in a crowded elevator; strong comic violence as politician accidentally hits a baby and a dog, politician shoots his opponent; fight scene, politician is bitten by a snake in a snake handling church service; briefly depicted fornication in a porta potty, depicted fornication between politician and his opponent’s wife and politician makes a campaign commercial out of it, a child admits to having been aroused by an animal licking him, a man mentions engaging in self-arousal using his feet; partial upper female nudity in one scene and campaign commercial features nude women with private parts blurred; heavy alcohol use complete with drunkenness and a DUI arrest; smoking and a reference to a person being under the influence of drugs; and, tremendous dishonesty, deceit, greed, lust, revenge, racism, and horrible role models.

More Detail:

THE CAMPAIGN uses a Congressional campaign as a vehicle for a vile and vulgar politically correct comedy that mocks Christianity and capitalism. The humor is just another step down for the entertainment industry and for American moviegoers.

THE CAMPAIGN opens with fifth-term Congressman Cam Brady (Will Ferrell) proclaiming his allegiance to America, Jesus, and Freedom. He then has illicit sex with a female fan in a porta potty. Brady wears his insincerity on his sleeve, and he goes about the district calling multiple groups “the backbone of America.” The filmmakers establish immediately that THE CAMPAIGN is out to mercilessly mock American politics, Christianity and business.

Marty Huggins (Zach Galifianakis), a naive simpleton, is convinced to run in opposition to Brady by his wealthy father and his evil friends in business. Backing him with a huge campaign budget, they plan to open Chinese factories in the district and import Chinese workers paid less than 50¢ per hour. They expect Huggins to make this possible once he’s elected.

As if this was not low enough, the movie then sinks into a laughably outrageous and vulgar battle on the campaign trail. That’s the key, “laughably.” The filmmakers hope that humor generated hitting babies, having illicit sex with an opponent’s wife, getting bit while worshiping with snake handlers, and getting an opponent arrested for drunk driving will put money in their bank account.

The movie winds up with both candidates deciding to oppose the greedy businessmen who’ve been funding their campaigns. What about the businessmen lowering the standards of American comedy? It’s so unnecessary. For decades Hollywood made comedies without stooping to have children discuss being sexually aroused by animals. The major movie studios seem to be in a competition to see how low they can go to make money.

You can try to make money in the sex slave trade. You can try to make money selling drugs to children. And, you can try to make money lowering the civility of culture with abhorrent movies. Or, you can actually make more money on family-friendly and faith-friendly movies that inspire good behavior. The Movieguide® Report to the Entertainment Industry shows this year after year.

THE CAMPAIGN is just another assault on civility and decency. Whatever humor it offers comes at the price of desensitization. The lower the humor you’ll pay to see, the lower the civility you can expect from the society in which you live.

Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

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Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

Movieguide® is a 501c3 and all donations are tax deductible.