The Campaign

I saw this movie purely because they showed it at my college. It wasn't the worst way to spend a Saturday night. There were some laughs, coming at the expense of others but some of them were quite disgusting and disturbing.
Here Cam Brady (Will Ferrell) is a Democratic Congressman who is also a horn dog. His pretty blonde, but shallow wife, Rose (Katherine LaNasa) is only with him because he keeps winning. However, two brothers, Wade and Glenn Motch (Dan Akyroyd and John Lithgow), who are pure evil and care only about money, decide that they need a candidate who would support their interests, which are buying the free space in the district, selling it to China so their company could build factories there. Then Chinese workers would be imported, still paid cheaply to make the goods and then the goods would be shipped to the American consumers. It would save them a fortune on shipping fees. (Sarcasm here people.) They choice the tour guide giving, pug loving Marty Huggins (Zach Galifianakis), and he decides to run because it will make his never happy father happy with him for once.
Though Brady has been untouchable, thanks to a disturbing message meant for his mistress, but was left on someone else's answering machine, which was one of the many disturbing scenes of the movie. 
The movie plays out; they candidates spend tons of time trash talking each other and once Marty's campaign manager comes along, things start to go in his favor. Tim Wattley (Dylan McDermott) arrives and rearranges Marty's house and gets rid of his Chinese pugs to be replaced by the All-American retrievers. However, the campaign is quite demanding and Marty is abandoning his wife, Mitzi (Sarah Baker). This drives her to have an affair with Brady, in a disturbing scene.
Eventually, Marty realizes that he is nothing more than a pawn in a bigger game than he could have ever imagined and announces that he won't follow their plan as he loves this country. So the Motch Brothers join the Brady bandwagon in an interesting plot twist.
The film ends with the guy you want in office in office, though in a way I would have never expected. The film was definitely entertaining, and the performances were pretty good, with flawless, unwavering accents from the characters. Marty's father's maid (Karen Maruyama) was especially hilarious as she was paid extra to put on an accent so it would remind his father of the good ole days. Despite all of this, I really don't care if I never see the film again, give me Elf any day. Grade: B