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Cam Brady (Ferrell) runs unopposed for the position of the North Carolina congressman every year. When two big time businessmen decide to build a Chinese sweatshop in his district, they bring in a more malleable candidate to run against Brady; one who would be less likely to oppose their inhumane plans. Enter Marty Huggins (Galifianakis); town freak and all around simpleton.

The Campaign is for everybody who hated The Dictator and thought it was a racist, humourless piece of swill. As a by-product of the latter film, we went in to see the former with our racism sensors on high alert – they come to life whenever ‘America’ and ‘politics’ coincide – but thankfully, the dominant feeling coursing through us while watching The Campaign was relief; relief that it concentrates on internal American affairs. But then again, even if it had failed our racism test, The Campaign’s actually funny – no, hilarious; something Baron-Cohen’s flick failed sorely at.

Galifianakis’ character, Huggins, on the other hand is a gullible, idealistic kind of guy who loses his way morally in his quest to beat Brady. He’s equally as funny as Ferrell and as far as possible from his character in The Hangover. The supporting cast is packed with comedians such as Dan Aykroyd and Jon Lithgow as the nefarious businessmen, and Jason Sudeikis and Dylan McDermott as the campaign managers.

The film’s very broad; the characters are all stereotypical, the political points brought up won’t surprise or offend the most hardcore of Republicans and it has the kind of ending that only happens in fairy tales. Despite this, the film is still very funny; the performances are uniformly fantastic and the vast majority of the jokes will have you in various states of laughter.

The Campaign isn’t a hard-line political satire. It’s a light, breezy comedy that won’t give you anything to think about but will keep you happily entertained.