NOW IN THEATERS! Directed by Brett Ratner, Melania follows the soon-to-be-second-time First Lady of the United States, Melania Trump, in the 20 days leading up to the presidential inauguration and the start of President Donald J. Trump’s second term. We find she’s not just there for the ride. She plays an integral part in the ceremony and, ironically, her husband’s presidency.
The documentary opens symbolically with a statement about the key role immigrants have played in this country’s history. Melania first enters her war room, filled with immigrants from around the world, and notes that, just as immigrants built this country, they also built her inaugural dress. Unlike typical lazy Americans, these immigrants focus on every detail, ensuring the perfect dress adorns the First Lady’s figure, and history shows it certainly did.
Melania Trump in a scene from Melania (2026). Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios.
“…follows the soon-to-be-second-time First Lady of the United States, Melania Trump, in the 20 days leading up to the presidential inauguration…”
Throughout Melania, Melania speaks in voice-over about the importance of her role as First Lady of the United States and the First Ladies who came before her. Though she embraces her roles as mother, wife, and caretaker of the White House, she’s also focused on causes she considers important, including her Be Best program, through which she discusses online bullying with the First Lady of France, Brigitte Macron. Her heart is also dedicated to peace and the urgency of ending the war in Gaza. She takes a moment before the inauguration to meet with a woman who was kidnapped along with her husband and held hostage. While she was freed, her husband remained behind. Melania promises her husband will return safely, and she intends to do everything she can to keep that promise.
Watching the documentary, I felt as if I were watching a Disney documentary, as the camera flows through the sophisticated golden tones of Trump Tower in New York, Mar-a-Lago in Florida, and, of course, the White House. It’s almost like a dream of a new Golden Era of America. It’s also hard not to be enraptured by the beauty of this former fashion model of Slovenia. Donald is one lucky guy. If anything, history buffs will fawn over this as we get a behind-the-scenes tour of Washington, D.C., during the transfer of power from Biden to Donald J. Trump. Now, I don’t know what your politics are or how passionate you feel about this administration, but this film is not about politics; it’s about the prestige and pageantry of the United States presidency.
From start to finish, Melania is about elegance, beauty, and patriotism. There’s so much attention paid to every minute detail that, in all honesty, this film is for chicks. I mean, come on — can’t someone open a can of beer and belch once in a while? In all seriousness, 50 years from now, the documentary will be received for what it is: a documentary about the presidency from the perspective of the First Lady and not the nasty notes in the comment section of this review. For what it’s worth, this is worth watching.
"…this film is for chicks."
You obviously are a tRUMPER! She has done nothing that has benefited this once great nation. She is no better than the piece of dirty crap she married for money.
Was this written by an AI chatbot because it’s patently absurd. Practically NOBODY went to see it. Theatres were EMPTY. They couldn’t give tickets away. Brett Ratner who directed it has been accused by multiple women of sexual assault. GROW A BRAIN.
I’m worried the reviewer may have had a stroke, or perhaps he had his sense of irony removed as a child? Either way, someone should check on him.
Trailer for film makes me not want to see it.
This film is for chicks? Oh, right, we “chicks” are supposed to be intensely interested in clothing, plate patterns, and all the other superficial stereotyped fluff. Get a life, honey, or better yet, go back to your mom’s basement and try watching Andrei Tarkovsky, Bela Tarr, or Agnes Varda for some real film experiences.
We enjoyed this great historical documentary film Melania with nice music .
Melania is not only beautiful and stylish outside, but she soft inside and loves her parents and family. It was very touch when Melania talked to Israeli hostage. I recommend to see this movie especially women.
My husband, myself, and our friends loved it! The behind the scenes look was farther than we expected. God bless Melania and her family!
You’re a full paid up MAGA supporter not a serious critique – this has film has been canned by so many esteemed critique – you’re the only one (never heard of you before – until I saw you list it as a 7/10 when the average was 2/10 – at least thankfully for publicly airing so I can give your reviews a complete miss
Agree. Pretty good film and recommended. Especially if you’re focused on fashion. But also the parts about her mother and the way she sees those hacks at CNN casually mentioning it. Very well done.
Haven’t seen this yet and may or may not in the future (It’s not really made with me in mind and I don’t really care for Melania, the importance of her role or her political views), but I’d just like to observe after reading some comments here that leftists are the most unhappy and vile people on the face of the planet. Keep up the great work comrades!
WTF ?
Every time I come across stuff like this, I just think about how all of you will have to spend the rest of your lives justifying all this blind bootlicking you did for this authoritarian regime. I mean seriously, what the heck is this review? At least other reviewers have the grace (and/or the cunningness) to tone down their personal opinion or add it as a footnote in an otherwise technical article, to save some iota of face. But you, for some reason, wish to thump your chest and proudly declare yourself a certified oral shoe polisher of the Trump family. My problem isn’t your politics: if the documentary were called “Michelle”, were just as crap as this, and you were gushing about it in its review, just because it agrees with your politics (even though you claim there is nothing political about a movie that is about the First Lady, who is currently serving, and has a huge role in the film’s production) I would have called you a bootlicker as well.
P.S. Fun fact for you: 2/3rds of this film’s crew didn’t want their name in the credits. This is how much they were excited for the movie you claim future audiences and history buffs will “fawn over.”
*”They didn’t want their names in the credits.” If this is true, and I doubt it, HIGHLY, it has nothing to do with Melania Trump. It has everything to do with worrying about the amount of harassment, that the blue-haired fruitcake squad would subject them to. You’re disgusting attitude, is proof-positive of this concern as you don’t seem to care about the content of the film at all, -you just HATE President Donald J. Trump, YOUR PRESIDENT, has a film about his stunningly gorgeous wife, and how she breezes through the lower IQ crowd with class, and ELEGANCE. Ain’t it cool?
I agree with you!!!!!!!
I loved the MELANIA movie! So did my mom, my sister, and all my mom’s friends! A breath of fresh air. Melania is classy, sophisticated, educated, and this movie made me feel so proud to have this immigrant woman for our First Lady twice!!
I hope Trump Inc. paid you for this sad and pathetic review, as much as they paid the porn star and the Playmate for their silence…
Alan Ng writes criticism that consistently dodges the actual work of criticism. He treats films less as crafted objects and more as vessels for messages he already agrees with, openly ranking ideology and audience mobilization above form, coherence, or cinematic competence. His reviews substitute analysis with exhortation, flatten disagreement into culture-war caricature, and lean on lazy buzzwords instead of close reading.
What’s left is not a contrarian critical framework but a hollow one: opinion dressed up as evaluation, cheerleading passed off as judgment, and a body of work that raises doubts about his seriousness as either a writer or a film critic.
Reading his reviews is, put plainly, a waste of time.
Let me understand, this is about that First Lady who wore a jacket saying ”I don’t care, do you?” Let me answer that question I don’t! And there’s nothing elegant about CHOOSING to wear a jacket with this type of statement on it, on the way somewhere in the USA on air force one! Enough said
That jacket was directed at the press who was constantly berating her and her husband. It was also a jacket purchased by many others and a top fashion item at the time.
You’re entitled to your opinion. Your total garbage opinion coming from a total garbage individual. But yeah.
Jesus – what an unapologetically thin, vapid perspective.
Alan your chauvinist perspective shows that you hate yourself. Get well soon.
How much did you get paid to say this stuff? It’s terrible and you know it, stop trying to lick these peoples boots. They’ll never like you. This is just terrible propaganda and brings nothing of value to anything. It is however pretty good and ensuring people know that these billionaire idiots are bad at everything and would die without the working class though. and to you Alan Ng, grow a pair and write a real review, because right now this is just lies and propaganda which means none of your reviews are worth anything.
My husband and I saw the film and enjoyed seeing the life of the First Lady. She is classy, intelligent, family-loving, sympathetic, and generous. I recommended the documentary to my friends and family.
This is an absolutely pathetic review. Waxing poetic about propaganda. Not a single critical comment on anything.
Hi Jared. In Film Threat’s video review, Alan critiques the over-production elements director Brett Ratner used in developing the film’s narrative structure. I would have like to have seen Alan expand on those thoughts in the article. Also in the video review, Alan and Chris do Not comment politically and state explicitly No need to comment politically about what is a mostly apolitical movie. “this film is not about politics” . . . “this film is for chicks.”