Watch Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie For Free

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

I wanted to but couldn't!

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

The concept of this movie is actually really fascinating to me. Personally, I really dislike Donald Trump, and a good satire of him would work extremely well! Also, it's interesting how this movie is a) an adaptation of his book "The Art of the Deal" b)is shot as mockumentary, and has a cool visual style, and c) Johnny Depp is playing Donald Trump!However, the movie itself is nowhere near as good as its concept!While I did laugh a couple of times here and there, it was, overall, very unfunny. Most of it is immaturely making fun of Trump instead of packing the movie with little details about Trump's life that would take actual research. I'm ALWAYS impressed when those behind the scenes actually do research on whoever/whatever they're satirizing.But, despite the movie not really being funny, I thought Johnny Depp did a pretty great job. He doesn't look or sound much like the real Donald Trump, but his performance is extremely unique and bizarre, and I really found myself enjoying!Also, I'd like to comment on the people angrily calling this movie "propaganda". I highly disagree with them. It's just a quick little comedy that pokes fun of Trump, it's no "Triumph of the Will"! Really, calm down!Overall, this movie made me agree with what Ron Howard said at the end of the credits.

In this spectacular and frighteningly spot-on satire of Donald J Trump (though the fact that a lot of it is so close to his worldview is part of the point - that he COULD have made something this sloppy and tacky and all about himself), we see the man, the myth, the legend in the 1986 glory days of when he turns 40 and he is telling his life story while in the framing device of making a deal for the Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City from Merv Griffin (Johnny Depp is Trump, Patton Oswalt as Merv Griffin, easily two of the funniest casting choices this year that WORK damn it all).It's important to remember this is a "Movie of the Week" from the website Funny or Die, and the context is all about timeliness. This wouldn't of worked three or even four years ago, when "Drumpf", as he's now delightfully called on Twitter (at least by myself thanks to John Oliver), was first running for president. But now it's 2016 and this has been one of those years that you simply can't write about in fictional terms - a grade A narcissist (and whatever you think about the man, he IS that) who knows one thing: Trump is amazing, the best, YUGE, and he will do great for his country as he did great for people back in his years as a real estate mogul. Of course it's all an illusion, and a kind of pact perhaps with a devil, and there's even a scene here where Trump, talking to himself in the mirror in the bathroom after being unable to take a s***, sees briefly a figure of a skeleton, this after a homeless man intoned to him 'You will not get the Taj Mahal.' What could these symbols mean? Eh, it's nothing, of course, Trump says.The entire conceit of the project is what counts here, of a self-financed passion project dug up from obscurity from the 1980's (the kind of thing that might show up on the series 'Best of the Worst') and it's all about making the same joke but in different variations, like a jazz musician playing 'My Favorite Things' for half an hour: you know that Trump will make it all about himself - "written/music by/starring/produced/co-produced/lyrics/directed by Trump" - so why not use that to leap off into his various sleazy and skeezy business practices? Or that he has an Immigrant wife (as he does now)? Or how he sued the NFL and won, but got a $1 settlement offer (that I didn't know about but hey I believe it)? And it's also all resting on Johnny Depp's shoulders as a performer, and what he does here is a goof, a long SNL skit, but what a skit! Yes, it's clear that he's taking on a lot of make-up once again and putting on a New York Trump-y drawl, but it works. He carries best I think Trump's instability and lack of self-consciousness (except when that comes to his suit or if he's talking to a minority child in his propaganda, which is hilarious in that he changes up the kid a few times, with a black kid given the shortest amount on screen), and the narration gives a lot of jokes at the image of Trump as a kind of public persona who is basically ripe for mockery, not to mention his interactions with others (Jason Mantzoukas as a bum, Paul Scheer as Roy Cohn, Alfred Molina as his "Jewish Lawyer", no, really, he's referred to as that on screen, and he has to demonstrate how he eats the c***s off of the plaintiffs Trump's against).Does every little attempt at humor work? Maybe not. But then this is the kind of satire that aims high and low - there's a poop joke, or rather about how Trump *can't* poop - but more often than not the lines connect and it's consistently funny and at least amusing. The ending is slightly problematic in that it doesn't keep things into its 1980's aesthetic (spoiler, Christopher Lloyd pops up from 2016 with the presidential news). I think that it is the one major fault is that it doesn't keep its references to the 80's solely and goes into present day context so strongly (hell, even Alf shows up, performed by the original actor, and it's great) when we already know watching it what the context is all about: meet the new Donald, same as the old Donald, only without the actual coiffed 'Helmet hair', only now (to at least me and I'm sure others) the visage of a demagogue.But as far as acidic satires of demagogues with plenty of 'cards' of Deal wisdom go, this takes the cake. And when it comes to satirical targets, the only downside is that he's almost TOO good for right now, like it may take a couple decades until the next big one can come around... like The Producers. 7.5/10

Donald Trump is certainly someone that could be easily and successfully spoofed. This movie could have been hilarious. Instead, it's boring. Here are some of the scenes. ***Spoiler alert*** Trump telling his lawyer to pretend biting off a cock, in front of a boy. Trump taking a dump while constipated. Trump says f*ck several times, and gives the finger. Trump paying a homeless man to relieve himself inside of an apartment building. Trump picks up a gay lawyer in a bar. Trump insulting blacks and Mexicans. ****** What a shame. There were some big stars that appeared. Ron Howard was part of this mess. Couldn't he have called in some favors and gotten some decent writers to help out? Unfortunately, it seems to have been written by bitter, unfunny, Trump haters.

Mockery is the style of the times, and satire is just a nice way to say "hey, we're deeply prejudiced and more than willing to express it through exaggerated stereotypes." It takes extra effort to watch this painfully desperate attempt to commit character assassination in the name of politics. At least there was some character similarity - some. But that's just my opinion. I have the same opinion whether it's some snarky rich Hollywood type looking down their nose at the person in their cheap big box store clothes, or a bunch of bullies mocking someone they want to push around. Same kind of jokes, jabs and the glow of underlying enjoyment of the sense of superiority. Don't like Trump? You'll love it.