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At Tuesday's premiere of American Dreamz, the team behind the film tried to give a sense of what to expect from their upcoming incompetent-President-decides-to-judge-American-Idol flick:

Asked at Tuesday's ArcLight preem of his "American Dreamz" is a satire or a comedy, writer-director Paul Weitz said: "Since satire is the death knell for a movie, it's a comedy."

At the Cabana Club soiree, U topper Marc Shmuger called the pic "audacious," while producer Rodney Liber described it as "a cultural comedy — it takes stabs at everybody" — and producer Andrew Miano said, "The movie is an equal offender — it's a comedy first and a commentary second."

We hear them loud and clear: Laughs first, thinking second. But before anyone else involved with the movie could furrow their brow and try to tip-toe around any possible, box-office-killing intellectual labels, a quick-thinking publicist stepped in and cheerily offered, "Hugh Grant stutters 832 times in the film! Isn't that awesome?"