What happens when South Park’s political spelling collides with the story of a Muslim child in the post-stage-11/9 New Jersey? You can get the comic playground “#1 Happy Family Usa”.
A24 production, which is shown on Thursday in Prime Video, follows sensory (which crossed Youssif) and soon moves “seeing something” in early 2000.
The semi -autobiography of the American -Egyptian comedian, actor and director Youssef in the midst of this comic period, where Michael Jordan is still piracy, and Bretinny Spears is still dominating the news. Everything is normal in the 12 -year -old Rumi world on September 10. He crush his teacher Mrs. Malcolm (expressed by Mandy Moore Those who encountered fame in the first decade of the twentieth century). He tolerates the lack of quality of his Egyptian migrant parents, Father Hussein (who was also expressed by Youssef) and the Sharia mother (Salma Hindi). He fights with his ideal/close sister, Mona (Alia Shukat). His religious grandparents also live at home, and always ready to make everything Rumi do feels a campus.
But within 24 hours, Al -Qaeda attacks transformed sensory from a medium functional family with painful names into a suspected terrorist cell.
“#1 Happy Family Usa” follows the story of a coming Muslim boy.
(Main Video)
Rumi’s father, a doctor who turned into a halal cart, goes to excessive assimilation to demonstrate that his family is 110 % American and is absolutely not associated with anyone called Osama. Old glory, Christmas decor and Easter explanation suddenly floats on the surface in the front yard. He shaves his beard. He insists that his wife stops wearing the veil, which makes the law, and she is a receptionist for an eccentric dentist (Kiran Kolkin), all of which are more determined on her lack of veil.
Meanwhile, his colleagues in Rumi are now offering him to offer him suspiciously despite his attempts to suit other boys by wearing the new basketball shirt. But the Bootleg “Bulls” shirt reads “balls” instead. They are also three very large sizes and look like a dress. It is clear that it is not like others.
Elements of the story Mirror Youssef Youssef Montage in the Holo series “Rami”, but the animation of adults allowed him to “stunned” with the story and characters. He also has work with Pradi, a salad in pushing a moving satire to the maximum fun.
“Animation has become a way to live this idea. I wanted to look at a completely uncomfortable period outside a police drama lens or news … and go to the maximum of workplace.” “I definitely have the desire to make something stupid in a wonderful, sophisticated and almost understandable way. [laughs]. You can put “Rami” in a dramidy category and you can, to some extent, put “MO” there, but here it really explodes in a broker without limits. Then the name Bam appeared and was irrational. “
Brady collaborated with Trey Parker and Matt Stone in “South Park” from The Show’s Start, and went to Cowrite with them the movie “America team: the world police” Cocreating is the Netflix “Lady Dynamite” comedy chain. Brady said: “Once I saw” Rami “and I saw his position, I was a fan.” I have been begging my manager: “Please, can I meet Rami? So I came frankly as a fan, knowing that this man does some of the following things.
Mona Chalabi, Rami Youssef and Bam Brady are the creative forces behind “#1 Happy Family Usa”.
(Christina House / Los Angeles Times)
The photographer and executive producer Mona Chalabi designed the characters, each of which dates back to animation patterns in the late nineties and early first decade of the twentieth century such as “Futurama” or “DARIA”.
Youssef said: “I wanted to feel like an existing tape.” “You are emerging and it seems that it could have been on the Central or MTV comedy [back then]. It is a hand -drawn animation and made it with an animated studio in Malaysia [called Animasia]. It is a Muslim animation house, and it is very crazy. They were very happy to draw the veil and all these characters. They were like, “We are attached to it!” But we even reduced our computers here to make them as if they were making. All we did took time and was like the opposite of artificial intelligence. “
“We wanted to make sure, especially with pictures, direction and speed, which I felt familiar. I saw such an offer before. We did not want to re -invent the model, but we did not want to make him look like” the family of the man. “So, it is like,” Oh, this offer was in 1998. Do you remember it, right? “
Although the show has been happening about 25 years ago, it is not difficult to see the conspiracy echo today in the wake of the deportation and clips of immigrants and students. Hussein opposes a wave of phobia, caused by the September 11 attacks. They embody very real fear of getting to know the outside world, including FBI agent Dan Daniels (expressed by Timothy Olivant), who lives in the street. A dark period, for sure, but also rich in comic value if you are ready to go there as “#1 Happy Family Usa”. Its characters are separated into a song while it is about to swear by internal security, or unintentionally caused widespread panic by dropping the carpet at the airport to pray when they learn terrorist attacks.
“We were trying to create a kind of capsule this time, like the old DHS at this moment,” Youssef said. “But now is the time when a migratory family, and certainly a Muslim family will feel the need to scream,” We are No. 1! Happy Family Usa! “Pam and Mina and I all look at each other with” stand “. From all the times that this thing could have fallen, it is now declining, when [it’s hard] To join these things in any other means. “
As everything looks like a harsh joke, “#1 Happy Family Usa” returns with the satire we need.
