The creator or Archer assembles an impressive comic cast but squanders them on a simple-minded satire of US history
A spirit of literal playfulness, in the anarchic smashing-action-figures-into-one-another sense, typifies the cinema of Phil Lord and Chris Miller. The current kings reigning over what remains of the studio
comedy got their start on TV as the creators of Clone High, a cartoon that threw assorted figures of global history together to hang out in a modern-day classroom, and an early articulation of the mashup instincts that would follow them through their career.
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