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Title: Slacker Uprising
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Parents, while not rated there is some strong language at times. Recommended for ages 12 and up. |
Michael Moore’s “Slacker Uprising” doesn’t need a review it needs a fact check sheet (as well a TV with a mute button on it). Sadly I have other reviews to write and movies to watch, not to mention fact sheets are time consuming, so this review will have to do. While most of Moore’s films the politics take center stage, in “Slacker Uprising” the focus of the movie is Mike. Moore and Moore Mike. I don’t pretend to know how Moore’s devoted following will react to this, but I think it shows a strong sense of patience if they can sit through this all the way through and claim to be entertained. The movie is a documentation of Moore’s “Slacker Uprising Tour” he embarked on during the 2004 elections. He went on this tour to encourage college students (who are easily influenced) to vote for Presidential hopeful John Kerry over Presidential Incumbant George W. Bush.
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Though this was the goal, the movie emphisises that the tour was created to “save [the democrats] from themselves.” After this is established the movie follows Moore from campus to campus, speaking of the evils of the Bush Administration and the failure of the media to report on it’s evil doings (boy is he so wrong in that statement). Several guest stars join the stage to help spread the word. Eddie Veder, Viggo Mortison, Roseanne Barr, and one of the few liberal country singers I’ve ever seen (I don’t want to spoil who it is). Compared to Moore’s other documentaries this is the least cinematic. It’s really nothing more then Moore bashing the Bush Administration, the guest stars (and audience members) claiming what a patriot/saint Moore is, and flashing election “facts” that are not true. To save audiences the trouble of seeing this movie I’m going to revel the result this tour had on the election: Nothing.
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This tour was a total wash. Statistics show that the number of college students who turned up to vote was so insignificant it didn’t even chart. This movie would have you believe that a record of 21 million students voted though, and that the only reason Bush won was because their parents voted for Bush. Moore can’t expect us to be THAT stupid! The evidence that this tour wasn’t very effective is in the movie itself. The camera may be on Moore most of the time, but who is that in the audience? Why it’s adults! Adults mostly in their forties and fifties. The youngest voters seem to be in their late thirties. It also strikes me as very cruel and misleading to make a documentary that hypes up the downfall of a president so much, with rock songs, loud speeches, and celebrity support, only to end with a title card that says he got elected anyway. If there’s one positive thing to get from the film is that Moore is giving it away for free. He hopes with this movie he can encourage people to vote this November (Editor's Note: This review was written in September 2008).
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Fat chance of that happening, seeing as this movie shows how useless such efforts can be. Besides, Moore giving away this film for free isn’t charity: He’s already made his money on this movie. Despite the fact that this movie portrays Moore as a saint who toured the world for free, the fact is he got around $25,000 in college savings money for every night he spoke. So seeing how Moore got around $1 million dollars in student savings to do this tour, and takes ninety-seven minutes of your life from you, I say pass this tour up. It’s not like anything was accomplished by it anyway.
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