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  • 2009
  • Shadow Distribution
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2009
  • Shadow Distribution
  • 1 h 27 m

Summary The Yes Men are anti-corporate pranksters who create phony Web sites to get themselves invited to high-level corporate conferences and media events - where they give hilarious, Swiftian analyses that unmask global injustice and satirize human rights abuses. They are the 21st century's answer to Timothy Leary's proselytizing for acid and ...

Directed By: Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, Kurt Engfehr

Written By: Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno

  • 2009
  • Shadow Distribution
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2009
  • Shadow Distribution
  • 1 h 27 m

The Yes Men Fix the World

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
71
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings
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Summary The Yes Men are anti-corporate pranksters who create phony Web sites to get themselves invited to high-level corporate conferences and media events - where they give hilarious, Swiftian analyses that unmask global injustice and satirize human rights abuses. They are the 21st century's answer to Timothy Leary's proselytizing for acid and ...

Directed By: Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, Kurt Engfehr

Written By: Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno

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Outrageously entertaining.
By David Edelstein FULL REVIEW
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Entertainment that tickles the justice-for-all glands.
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75
What have the Yes Men actually accomplished with their japery? Their film is an inadvertent reminder that activist antics are not the same thing as reform.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
75
For those who enjoy the shift-in-your-seat kick of seeing emperors caught with their knickers down, however, the squirm factor achieved by the Yes Men out-Borats Sacha Baron Cohen at his most confrontational.
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70
An odd combination of righteous, raucous and rueful.
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70
Finds its titular merry pranksters up to yet more capitalist-critiquing chicanery and fat-cat-fooling fun.
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50
Given the duo’s withering take on capitalism, it’s ironic that their stumbling second feature feels throughout like an infomercial for a shtick whose expiration date is rapidly approaching.
By Nathan Rabin FULL REVIEW

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Production Company ARTE, Article Z, Renegade Pictures, Britdoc Foundation, Charny/Bachrach Entertainment
Release Date Oct 7, 2009
Duration 1 h 27 m
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Tagline Sometimes it takes a lie to expose the truth.
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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Monterrey International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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