Who payed the critics

Disturbing yet enthralling

Amateur movie with Big budget

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

I really don't think it's a spoiler to tell you this is a fake documentary; it's painfully obvious in the very first lines of the horribly acted script.This movie reminds me of people like Kim Wayans, people who can't sing but thinks they can so they do parodies of actual artists. These people are unable to create original content themselves so attempt to do satirical humor but they just aren't funny. That perfectly describes the creators of this abysmal mess.Skip this and go watch a good mockumentary like 'Best of Show' or the hilarious classic 'Waiting for Guffman.'

man-o-man --- I wish I could swear here because my brain is spinning. Why haven't people rallied around this? Why haven't more critics been vocal about this? Kurt Loder names it best Doc of 2007 (I agree) and Kurt Loder is probably the only good thing left at MTV. But It really is something special and after reading about it it makes it more amazing to me. This movie was steered by the camera, by the writers, the so called guinea pigs of the film. Finally a movie that calls into question everything wrong with documentaries and entertainment and news and the hyper tech we're being buried by. Rent this film. It's like a meta-meta-meta film wrapped up in a performance art piece that no one knew they were apart of. I've never seen anything like it. Really. Period. The end.

Of the 12 films I saw at The Provincetown Film Festival (known for always having a strong slate of gay and lesbian films) American Cannibal (neither gay nor lesbian) was without question the most cutting edge, the most provocative and the best money I spent at the festival.The film focuses on two writers who get caught up in pitching a reality TV show to the pornographer who is behind the Paris Hilton Sex tape... The writers are so lovable and so human and, like many of us, have to take a job for the money. The consequences are sad and shocking. It's been five days since I saw it in our tiny little p-town theater and I cannot stop thinking about it. Like great works of art this film has stayed with me, this film inspired me, this film is one that I've been telling everyone about. Fabulous entertainment. It plays as a historical document of what is going on in popular entertainment. American Cannibal... We are eating ourselves to be entertained.

Saw the film at Tribeca. I give it a flat 10, as it gave me everything I want from a documentary: well shot, interesting, provocative, and truly stimulating. It is a rather searing look into reality, by way of reality TV. The film follows two writers as they pitch show ideas to producers; first pitching narrative work and then starting to pitch reality TV show ideas, the writers face lots of rejection. The tide turns when they meet Kevin Blatt, a cartoonish and entertaining personality (albeit jaded and gritty), whose previous work includes promoting porn productions and most famously, launching the Paris Hilton sex tape. He becomes interested in one of their ideas, is capable of funding the venture – and in a snap, the writers are gearing up to actually create the show they envisioned. I won't provide too much detail about the rest, as it may begin to approach "spoiler" level – but with a title like American Cannibal, you might imagine. Some broad strokes – the show is billed to out-sensationalize everything before it, out-challenge its contestants, and generally just blast all perceptions of morality and motivation in popular culture. It does move forward indeed, and the characters and circumstances blend to create a scene somewhat unlike anything we have ever seen. The film is ABOUT the writers and their journey to get budget and to make a show. But what the documentary accomplishes is something much larger – it makes an extensively evidenced case for the hyper-competitive and sensationalist nature of reality TV. It documents the origin of the ideas, gives glimpse to the support that makes it possible, and demonstrates the level to which reality TV has arrived – where contestants will do just about anything for their 15 minutes of fame, and audiences will hunger for more, and generally, the more extreme, the deeper the hunger. I came away from this film feeling shocked, and feeling pensive. The movie probably stimulates more questions about popular society than it answers, but then, that is just the nature of reality.