Lady Blah Blah's two hour infomercial trashed!!! [View All]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jul/18/sarah-palin-the-undefeated-reviews
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Sarah Palin documentary The Undefeated took an estimated $65,000-$75,000 in its opening weekend at the US box office, a figure described as "soft" in some reports. Distributor ARC Entertainment demurred, suggesting a "strong" debut for conservative film-maker Stephen Bannon's Palin-backed feature, which is now expected to roll out from its limited release of 10 cinemas to a wider audience across the country.

There was less dispute about the critical reaction to the film. The Undefeated currently holds a 0% rating on the review aggregator site rottentomatoes.com, which means all of the 10 journalists who have given their verdict reviewed it negatively. Most described the film as a hagiography or an advert. The Village Voice's Anna Merlan called it "a glowing two-hour infomercial for Sarah Palin, Presidential Candidate To-Be" while the LA Times's Robert Abele described "a troop-rallying campaign infomercial as imagined by Michael Bay: hero-worshipping, crescendo-edited at a dizzying pace, thunderously repetitive and its own worst enemy as a two-hour, talking-points briefing".

The Undefeated charts Palin's rise from Alaskan "hockey mom" to vice-presidential candidate. The politician does not appear on camera, but her voice is used in the narration via clips from the audiobook version of her book Going Rogue, and her staff reportedly helped Bannon set up interviews with supporters in Alaska and conservative bloggers such as Andrew Breitbart.