Bigoted Garbage

Rating: 1/10 (20 June 2005)

Tom Hanks' character in "The Terminal" is really supposed to be a rough prototype of the Slavic "muzhik" (this becomes clear when Hanks calls mustard "gorchitsa", which is Russian for mustard), but it is so misguided and blatantly stereotypical that it becomes offensive. I suppose that Spielberg felt that he would be successful in going for cheap laughs by creating this obscene American representation of a foreigner and I am sure that he did succeed with many people. Spielberg has sunk to a new low with this movie by making fun of a person's accent and his inability to pronounce words like 'cheated' (sounding like 'eat sh*t'). It seems he found an audience willing to consume this dross.