What's this aboot, eh?

In the movie Canadian Bacon, Canadians are portrayed as the kindest people there are in the whole world. We don't use bad language and littering is the largest punished crime there is. We don't have a care in the world because its so safe we don't need to. There is no violence. Weapons are not used very often; unlike the Americans. They love their guns; their bombs; and their war. They need war, they are not respected without it. The mounties, that are the only source of law enforcement, have relatively easy jobs. They lock people up for having a bad attitude too often, or maybe for dropping a bit of litter. Americans on the other hand have lots of law enforcement-all over.


The Canadians love hockey, but maybe not as much as they lover their beer. Insulting either of these things can turn into a riot. Hockey is pretty much the only real sport the Canadians play. Other than football, but that doesn't really count. Even if Canadian football doesn't count that does not mean we are not tough. We can stand up to a lot; even if we don't really fight back with weapons. The Americans would have to work pretty hard to take us down. Even if the Americans do think they run the world. Canadian Bacon claims that Canada has no culture, disregarding all the immigrants in our country. The immigrants may be coming to canada to get some of the very good jobs we have here. Or maybe they want to enjoy our national anthem with us and the peace that we are so famous for.


In Canadian Bacon, the current president Alan Alda is the first president to not take America to was in many years. This causes him to not to be approved by the American people. To change this he decides there must be war. But all the American enemies are dead. Trying to find a new enemy, they see a news broadcast of an American sheriff started a fight at a Canadian hockey game by insulting their beer. This gives the idea that Canada should be the new enemy. After the hockey game incident, the sheriff (Boomer) decides to go to Canada to litter and prove power of the Americans. One of his accomplices, `Honey`` gets caught by a Mountie and taken to jail. Boomer goes back to try to save her, all of his trouble causing in Canada almost starts a real war. This movie has many stereotypes to both countries through out. This makes an entertaining comedic movie. The stereotypes are made very sarcastic and obvious, clearly not there to offend. They portrayed the kindness of Canada to a ridiculous extent and also the American obsession with military. Over all this was an alright movie, but I would not say it was great by any means. There was just not enough entertainment value.