REVIEW: THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD
YOU have to be impressed by The Yes Men, a group of activists/film-makers/professional hoaxers who take on the biggest corporations in America all in the name of social justice.
They're impressive not just because their new documentary, THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD (12A), manages to exercise both your chuckle muscles and brain cells but because their brand of party-crashing hoaxes takes some real guts to pull off.
You have to be brave to go on the BBC pretending to be from a firm responsible for a chemical disaster which killed hundreds of people in India and announce the company will give victims a $12billion payout - knocking $2billion of its share price as a result.
Moving on to oil companies and then New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina, the film is an insightful and passionate document of corporate wrongdoing without much of the self-satisfied backslapping of, say, Michael Moore or Super Size Me's Morgan Spurlock.
The hoaxes are enjoyable but perhaps the best moment comes from one corporate mouthpiece who delivers a choice comeback to all the talk of global warming: "Cold-related deaths would decrease significantly." With enemies like that, it's almost too easy. - JUSTIN MATLOCK
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