December 13, 2023
The best part of Obama’s ridiculous new Netflix film
By Patricia McCarthy
Many brilliant and funny people have already weighed in on the terrible, manipulative, and silly film streaming on Netflix that Barack and Michelle Obama had a hand in producing, Leave the World Behind. One has only to read some of the over a thousand comments on Rotten Tomatoes, where 75% of the critics liked it, and only 39% of audiences did, to see mockery at its very best. There are also 851 comments on IMDB that make for amusing reading. Andrea Widburg’s column here at AT is also a comic takedown. Sure, a few people liked it. But 95% of the comments are not only hilarious, but wise. They are definitely entertaining. The few comments that rave about the film are occasionally the funniest of all.
Many critics address the racism they see in the film. The Julia Roberts character, Amanda, is instantly suspicious when the handsome black man in a tux and his daughter show up at the door of their rented vacation house late at night. She is as over-the-top nasty as can be for no perceptible reason. His daughter makes it clear that she doesn’t trust white people any more than Amanda trusts black people. But naturally, in the mysterious crisis that ensues, they all become pals. Of course they do. In the midst of a disaster, skin color has no meaning. A middle-schooler could have written this script.
There are numerous insanely stupid scenes, with CGI deer and flamingos like something out of Evan Almighty. These animals enter and exit without any explanation. There is a plane crash or two reminiscent of the TV series Lost. But for the un-remarked-upon best scene? Fifty-plus self-driving white Teslas speeding into one another on a two-lane road.
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