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DVD: Move Over Michael Moore – Here Come The Yes Men

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By: Rich Evans | in: Movies |

Tartan Films, 2003

Directed By: Chris Smith, Dan Ollman and Sarah Price

This is one film I can positively say deserves to be seen by a wider audience than it potentially will be.  Eye opening, witty and informative, it takes the feature-documentary genre popularized by films like Fahrenheit 9-11 and Super Size Me and turns it on its head with a unique subject matter.  The ‘Yes Men‘ are a small group of political activists who set up a spoof website pretending to be that of the World Trade Organisation and were amazed when emails from the media and various trade conferences around the world started rolling in asking for a representative from the WTO.  Not wanting to pass up the opportunity they invented characters such as Hank Hardy Unruh and Granwith Hulatberi, spoof corporate Yes Men, and started attending conferences and media interviews.Yes Men

This film is a behind the scenes take on serious satirists at work.  Highlights include the WTO ‘idea’ of feeding people in the third world re-processed post-consumer waste from the West (s**t to you and me!) and making money from it, to the idea that perhaps slavery was a good idea after all!  The film follows the Yes Men through the ups and downs of their campaigns and shows real warmth for the pranksters and their cause of exposing corporate greed in all its forms.  All through the film, you really get a sense that they can’t believe how far they are able to go, without being found out.  If you appreciate films like Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9-11 and Super Size Me and want to see real satire “from the trenches”, this one is definitely for you.

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Posted on January 16, 2007

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One Response to “DVD: Move Over Michael Moore – Here Come The Yes Men”

  1. HMTKSteve on January 20th, 2007 8:09 am

    Thanks for the info on this one. I never even knew this existed but now, I want to buy a copy! Any chance of setting up an afilliate link to purchase this through?


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