Funny or Die Presents: Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie (2016)

Funny or Die is usually hilarious. Maybe a 50-minute movie format (with 5 minutes for intro and credits) is just harder to sustain. The script and actors seem especially suspect in this case. The best parts are Ron Howard's introduction on how he discovered this videotape (but not his epilogue at the end) and the scene showing the New York Zoning Commission. I did not know until the end that Johnny Depp played Trump, and he played it so straight that I could barely tell this is supposed to be a satire. Patton Oswalt as Merv Griffin had one line that made me smile. The German architect was a little funny. Christopher Lloyd's cameo was chuckleworthy. The rest of it was a long, slow slog about a guy who is all about himself -- too scary to be funny, much less president? It is not a political hatchet job though, strictly historical in the cheesy 1970s sense. 2.5 stars. (8-5-2016)