"FDR: American Badass!" is a very frustrating movie. While I loved the audacity of the plot and loved some of the VERY low humor, the film, overall, is pretty bad. It looks like a film that really needed a rewrite here and there and the low humor was sometimes so low that it made me feel ashamed to watch it. In fact, eventually I just turned the thing off--it was that bad.

The film starts off wonderfully....really wonderfully. In fact, it was so good I was expecting to love the film. In this bizarre alternate reality, it's 1931 and Franklin Roosevelt CAN walk. However, he and his friends are attacked by a Nazi werewolf and FDR kills it--but only after it bites him and gives him polio!! These scenes and those in the hospital, though crude, made me laugh out loud several times. I was ashamed of myself...but it WAS very funny.

Unfortunately, what follows proved that although they had a great idea, the writers didn't have any more. The film was filled with too much scatological humor (I am talking about REALLY scatological--literally) and the repeated sexual references become boring and boorish. In fact, it starts to look like a movie written by a group of 7th graders--really, really crude ones at that. In fact, the film degenerated quickly to a totally unfunny mess. I turned it off when you see Roosevelt Jr. talking a dumb in a pitcher (and they showed it). Why?! What's funny about this? Who would give them money to make this? Were they drunk or on acid when they made this?! I dunno--all I know is that after initially loving the film, I quickly tired of it and couldn't take any more.

Truth be told, then I wasn't really expecting much from this movie. I mean, look at the title, the concept and the plot. Was I surprised with what I saw, not, I can't honestly say that I was. I was mortified. This was unbelievably boring and anything but funny.

"FDR: American Badass!" tries to follow in the spoof footsteps of movies such as "The Naked Gun" and "Airplane!", however, it just failed on a monumental scale, and it was almost physically painful to witness.

I will go as far as to say that the people hired for the various roles and characters were doing good enough jobs with what they had to work with - which wasn't much to begin with. And it was a losing uphill battle against a really horrible script and plot.

For a comedy, then "FDR: American Badass!" was surprisingly devoid of anything that would even remotely get close to making you laugh. The jokes were bad and under the belt, and the humor found in the movie might not just be suitable for everyone. If you are easily offended, I would suggest viewer discretion here.

This was also a losing uphill battle to just sit through the entire movie without losing interest in the screen, and I must admit that I gave up on this movie. It was just too much of a drag to get through. It took forever to get nowhere and spewing lots of pointless jokes and profanities at you while getting nowhere. As much as I enjoy comedy classics like "The Naked Gun" and "Airplane!", then "FDR: American Badass!" was like a really bad punch to the gut.

I can't really recommend this movie, unless you are a hardcore fan of anyone on the cast list.

Gov. Roosevelt, a man's man of a badass if there ever was one, is stricken with polio after being bitten by a Nazi werewolf sent to eliminate him. The plan backfires. With his resolve strengthened by adversity, FDR goes on to become president and takes a hands-on approach to defeating the Axis werewolves in World War II.

This is an absurd film which intentionally shoots for a high level of camp. The mostly juvenile humor, which is not particularly clever or witty, relies heavily on the comic acting ability of the stars to make it work. It does work most of the time because Barry Bostwick is hilarious in his over-the-top performance as a Badass FDR and he gets excellent support from Bruce McGill playing his ever-present right-hand man.

As you might expect, this is a very hit-or-miss kind of humor. This isn't a problem if moving briskly from one gag to the next, but this movie chooses instead to draw out each gag as long as possible. It's fun when the gag is working but tedious on those many occasions when it isn't. The excessive make-up on the Axis werewolves makes it impossible for them to do any acting, which means that every scene with them in it falls completely flat. Several more scenes are weakened by supporting actors who try to out-emote Bostwick rather than playing straight-men for him. On the whole, however, it was a very fun movie to watch and is a must-see film for anyone who enjoys intentional camp.