A documentary that takes a critical look at Michael Moore's films with a particularly strong look at his personal background as well as his films. The main juxtaposition here is that this film tries to play a straight documentary about someone who may or may not make straight documentary films.
There are a lot of things I don't like about Moore or his tactics. However, that said, I think his contribution to the discourse is important on a level on getting people to think about certain issues. I'll leave a lot of the questions about him, raised in the film and elsewhere, to those sources. Instead, I'll try to focus on discussing the merits of this particular documentary.
One of the striking things about this film is that one has to question some of the tone from the filmmakers who continue to be snubbed throughout and provide an ever increasingly snarky tone as it goes on. That said, they make good points on both sides about known incidences of fabrications and errors in his films as well as some form of laudatory comments about his raising the profile of the documentary as a viable film genre.
In the end, this documentary executes and employs several of the same tactics that they criticize Moore for using. However, my skepticism says that this film is still worth having a look at if only to get a little further information on Moore, his methods, impact on documentary film-making, and much of what that entails.
3 TV Nations out of 5
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