The Yes Men (2004)

Cream of the Crop FRESH 83% Avg. Rating: 7/10   "Suffers because its three directors ... make us watch far too much preparation for the Yes Men stunts, there's far too much exposition about why and what they're doing and too many glitches in the process." -- John Anderson, NEWSDAY   "They'll make you hoot. They'll make you think. And they'll make you wonder how often you drink the Kool-Aid." -- Allison Benedikt, CHICAGO TRIBUNE   "A sobering documentary done in a whimsical style." -- Jami Bernard, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS   "You can question the ethics of the ploy, but you can't argue with the absurdly revealing results." -- Colin Covert, MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE   "Smart and amusing." -- Kevin Crust, LOS ANGELES TIMES   "Achieves what any good documentary tries to: It's thought-provoking, insightful and entertaining at the same time." -- Jonathan Curiel, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE   "The Yes Men feels padded at only 83 minutes, as if the footage had been stretched to fill the running time, but it gets the point across that humanity is sorely missing from the corporate world." -- Gary Dowell, DALLAS MORNING NEWS   "They have such colorful characters and such an alarming story to tell that the film works in spite of its imperfections." -- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES   "This sly little documentary packs a wickedly satiric punch." -- Rick Groen, GLOBE AND MAIL   "Provides a therapeutic laugh for liberal audiences whose mouth corners have long been turned downward by the plumb bobs of reality." -- Ed Halter, VILLAGE VOICE   "A rough-hewn but sometimes very funny sort of performance diary." -- Dennis Harvey, VARIETY   "A head-shaking, gut-busting subversive film." -- Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER   "It's so smirkily inside-baseball it never bothers to make its argument; the film simply proceeds from the assumption that all of us in the audience are in agreement with its point." -- Stephen Hunter, WASHINGTON POST   "Subversively funny." -- Megan Lehmann, NEW YORK POST   "A likable documentary profile." -- Wesley Morris, BOSTON GLOBE   "The filmmakers include some good behind-the-scenes footage ... and have unfettered access, but the movie sometimes feels like one long college fraternity stunt." -- Bill Muller, ARIZONA REPUBLIC   "Yes, The Yes Men is funny, but it's humor that hurts." -- Michael O'Sullivan, WASHINGTON POST   "Equally funny and sketchy -- like a leftist reality TV show that somehow took on an extra hour and pulled a guerrilla infiltration of movie theatres." -- Geoff Pevere, TORONTO STAR   "An issues-based doc with a sense of humor. It's a bit flimsy, but you have to hand it to these guys: They're con artists with convictions." -- Steven Rea, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER   "[They're] playing these jokes on these obscure audiences." -- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER   "Parody, satire, and pranksterism are all the fashion in creative activism -- at least on the left -- and as masters of the form, the canny, politicized performing artists in the eponymous documentary The Yes Men are the ones to beat." -- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY   "Subversive and diabolically funny." -- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE