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Originally Posted by RawAlex
As for the "welcome audience", it isn't a question of your local cineplex playing the movie, but that some film festivals and movie review houses have made a big deal over it. These are the people who in influence the public's perception of a film as worthy or not worthy.
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No as a general rule film festivals tend to get little publicity outside a small anorak type grouping (again mostly students and hippies). If I were bothered I could probably find as many French people who had seen a movie that championed America and had convinced them that America was great, but that would not show that France in general had learnt to like America. If you want to influence people over here it's got to either be a blockbuster movie (like Team America) or a prime time TV show.
The fact is that Europe has become a bit "bored" with the USA, and although a lot of people tend to look down on America (it tends to be thought of as being a slightly "backward" country full of people who are a little "less bright" than the rest of the world, and also a bit of a "bully"), but that has nothing to do with this film, it has been the European view of America for decades. Apart from Team America, which was successful because of the popularity of South Park, and the fact that it was a very funny film in it's own right, "America Bashing" movies tend to just get watched by the minority who think it is "hip" and ignored by the majority of the public.