With his wife pregnant — ostensible premise for wanting a safer world — Morgan Spurlock takes his camera on a quixotic quest for the world’s Most Wanted man, or more ambitiously a quest for peaceful coexistence. As in Super Size Me, he strives for a tone of Michael Moore-ish impudence, …
This time around, Michael Moore is playing it conspicuously safe, inviting America to tag along on a paid vacation in which the clearly run-down rapscallion barely breaks a sweat when pointing out just how much better the quality of life is everywhere else on the planet. The documentary superstar takes …
The title, together with a tiny fraction of the footage, comes from Frank Capra's series of seven WWII propaganda films. The reappropriation is, needless to say, ironic. Eugene Jarecki, maker of The Trials of Henry Kissinger, adduces no less definite reasons why, just less noble ones. In a nutshell: the …