Add in the beautifully decorated interiors, a finely judged turn from Simon Helberg as Jenkins»
snivelling vocal coach and a running gag about potato salad, and this hits enough high notes to warrant an appreciative audience.
This world's overlord, President Business (Will Ferrell doing the
vocals, in full
snivel), has nefarious plans for maintaining that order permanently.
There's Danny Glover as the President of the United States, a Russian billionaire with a Paris Hiltonesque girlfriend, Tom McCarthy playing Jackson's domestic rival, kids with urinary incontinence problems, Oliver Platt as the
snivelling government stooge, improbable cell phone reception, car - fu, airplane gymnastics, bad Arnold Schwarzenegger
vocal imitators, and surveillance cameras with unlikely range.