A preachy, finger-pointing film with a banal, bigoted view of the world. Predictably, all of its characters are flat, as empty-headed as the plot and the careless, unadorned direction. Showing an extremely jaundiced, cartoonish view of humanity, it does its best to try to scare kids into thinking that their only hope in the world is to adopt mainstream values. Flabby conservative social engineering in its most obvious guise.
The film's only redeeming feature is that it accurately captures the deep despair and self-deception of the Reagan-Bush era and the people who made it possible.
The film's only redeeming feature is that it accurately captures the deep despair and self-deception of the Reagan-Bush era and the people who made it possible.