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- The Observer, Sunday 9 August 2009
Funnier and more useful than Sacha Baron Cohen's Brüno, this guerrilla movie records for posterity the serious satirical work of the poker-faced American pranksters Andy Birnbaum and Mike Bonanno, who set out to expose the lies and misdemeanours of conglomerates. They create a website that gets them invited by the BBC to speak on behalf of Dow Chemicals, the new owners of Union Carbide, and in a live programme on the Bhopal catastrophe, they apologise to the Indian people and make a large, generous offer of compensation.
- The Yes Men Fix the World
- Release: 2009
- Countries: France, Rest of the world, USA
- Cert (UK): 12A
- Runtime: 90 mins
- Directors: Andy Bichlbaum, Kurt Engfehr, Mike Bonanno
- Cast: Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno
After hurricane Katrina, they go to New Orleans as spokesmen for the Bush regime's Department of Housing and Urban Development offering to restore displaced working-class people to the housing projects the private sector has taken over. And so on. The pair's liberating, empowering humour has their targets shouting "unfair" and accusing them of duping the public as they go to Halliburton and back.
