Overview: Faced with sagging approval ratings and disgruntled arms manufacturers, the U.S. President (Alda) decides to cook up a new Cold War with Canada! And after a flood of media propaganda, Americans waste no time in patriotically burning their ice skates and swearing off maple syrup.

But when bumbling U.S. Sheriff Boomer (Candy) and his hair-trigger deputy Honey (Perlman) decide to take matters into their own hands and lead a preemptive strike, they soon find themselves embroiled in a hilarious international incident that’s too close for comfort, eh!

Blu-ray Verdict: Canadian Bacon is an eccentric comedy, involving the names like John Candy, Alan Alda, Rhea Perlman and with cameos by James Belushi, and Dan Aykroyd and has always been one of my own personal favorites from back in the day.

Sadly also being the very last movie that the late, great John Candy would film, simply put, Canadian Bacon stars John Candy as Sheriff Bud Boomer of Niagara Falls, New York. The town has recently undergone a recession due to factory closings (a common theme in Michael Moore movies, see Roger and Me).

However, the plants that are closing in this town are military plants being shut down by the President due to the end of the Cold War. The President is ridiculously unpopular, and he blames it on the the fact that every other President had the Russians to blame for all the nation’s problems. Desperate for an enemy, he finally settles on the Mom and Pop operation up north, Canada.

This whole set-up provides for plenty of satire, and belittling humor directed at Canada is both obvious and funny. A militant intelligence advisor to the President truly thinks the Canadian’s are evil, citing an unfathomable purpose to the Canadian National tower, and all the ways that the Canadians have invented to make the Americans’ lives miserable, including the metric system, Celsius, and, of course, Neil Young.

Moore is clever in this way because he makes the obvious humor (or, for you Canadians, humor) all directed at Canada, which Joe American is bound to understand and find funny. But there is also a lot of satire directed at the United States which is a little more subtle, yet still thoroughly enjoyable.

Particularly funny are the propaganda television ads set up by the president which portray the true evil of Canadians as well. They cite funny and sometimes actually believable or at least fear-provoking things about Canada.

A grave TV news broadcaster urges Americans to think of your children pledging allegiance to the maple leaf ... winter, 11 months a year ... Anne Murray, all day, every day, and so on!

Oh, and for the record, there isn’t much to this movie, in terms of story. The story simply serves as a mechanism to allow Moore to poke fun at both America and Canada.

Also, and upon re-hearing their whole Blame Canada campaign, I have subsequently found it highly reminiscent of the South Park movie’s motto! Perhaps their creators watched this movie, along with some editors who needed movie titles and suddenly an idea was reborn! This is a Widescreen Presentation (1.85:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs and comes with the Special Features of:

High Definition (1080p) presentation of the main feature in 1:85.1 aspect ratio
Audio: English 2.0 Stereo
Optional French and Spanish Subtitles
Original Theatrical Trailer (2:31)
Reversible Artwork