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- 2015
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Summary Where to Invade Next is an expansive, rib-tickling, and subversive comedy in which Moore, playing the role of "invader," visits a host of nations to learn how the U.S. could improve its own prospects. The creator of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine is back with this hilarious and eye-opening call to arms. Turns out the solutions...
Directed By: Michael Moore
Written By: Michael Moore
- 2015
- R
- Neon
- 2 h
- 2015
- R
- Neon
- 2 h
Where to Invade Next
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7.0
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Summary Where to Invade Next is an expansive, rib-tickling, and subversive comedy in which Moore, playing the role of "invader," visits a host of nations to learn how the U.S. could improve its own prospects. The creator of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine is back with this hilarious and eye-opening call to arms. Turns out the solutions...
Directed By: Michael Moore
Written By: Michael Moore
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 38 Critic Reviews
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66% Positive
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29% Mixed
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5% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 38 Critic Reviews
64
66% Positive
25 Reviews
25 Reviews
29% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
5% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
In my view, it’s one of the most genuinely, and valuably, patriotic films any American has ever made.
Michael Moore proves that in six years between films he’s lost none of his power as a popular polemicist, and while the overall structure of his argument here is flimsy, the details he reveals have impact, suggesting a fair and just society is not an unattainable Utopia.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 72 User Ratings
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72% Positive
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10% Mixed
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 72 User Ratings
7.0
72% Positive
52 Ratings
52 Ratings
10% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
18% Negative
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
A really good movie. Michael Moore uses his subversive and excellent humor to show that solutions for American problems already exists in other countries. It is humorously entertaining and gives you a lot to think. There are solutions politicians would never use or even consider in the USA that have solved the problem or decreased it in other counties. I have heard of some of it before but think it is fair to give you a spoiler free overview here: Italy for labor rights, France for sex education and school lunch for everyone, Finland for their school system which is the best in the world and always in the top positions in benchmark tests, Slovenia for university and higher education (also how student protest saved it), Germany for labor rights and work life balance (As German I must say that no every company is like this but we improved over the years), Portugal for drug policies and health care (This I heard of and the results should surprise you), Tunisia for women's rights and Iceland for handling the financial crisis. All of the above can be adapted and used in other countries. I would start on a small scale and continue expanding while improving. You can check these if you don't believe it. I know the German part was true and checked for Portugal, Italy and Iceland. Overall a really enjoyable movie in a way that you get new ideas and lot of stuff to think about.
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As with any Michael Moore movie, attention must be paid.
Moore has made his best film in over a decade, and one that clarifies exactly what his strengths are.
It’s jocular, never feels like a screed, and it’s refreshingly outward-looking.
Mistitled and meandering, it is Michael Moore’s worst film, his weakest whack at America: What Went Wrong?
Where to Invade Next is documentary filmmaking gone wrong, a churlish polemic that uses the tools of propaganda to construct its world view. The film itself is an invasive presence, wreaking havoc in the realm of truth.
"Where to invade next?" is an expansive, funny and subversive comedy in which the Oscar-winning MM confronts all the burning problems of today's America and finds solutions in strangest places. The creator of films such as "Fahrenheit 11/9" and "Capitalism: A Love Story" returned with a big movie that is different from everything he has done so far.
A call to arms to win and regain the American dream right here in America. One of the most honest and most valuable patriotic films that an American has ever recorded...
An optimistic accomplishment based on a challenging, but invaluable idea: we can do better.
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In this 2015 film, Michael Moore returns with social commentary, parody, ironic humor and a complete disregard for fashion, and as always, he is courageous and brazen in his own eccentric and heartfelt way. In this endeavor, he is embarking on a global tour to see what other countries are doing right to help their own citizens within the framework of socialist institutions. For the fanged, venom-dripping ultraconservative anti-socialists of the United States, all copies of this film would be rounded up on an American Kristallnacht and burned in a heap. But for liberals, Michael Moore is more like a compassionate yet sharp-witted angel, a savvy truth-seeker who is determined to change the world. His choice of weapons is, as always, the documentary.
Moore is an optimist, and he admittedly gives us the best face of how socialism works in countries that are decidedly more enlightened than the United States. Americans fiercely believe that they live in the greatest country in the world, and indeed, as a military, industrial, and technological giant, this is a fact. But when it comes to being an enlightened government that takes care of its people and puts "the pursuit of happiness" for average citizens above all else, the USA has fallen flat on its face and shows no signs of ever making itself "great again." Moore investigates a series of philosophically enlightened principles as they are employed abroad. Surprisingly, when foreigners were asked where they got some of these socialist philosophies that would be deemed wild and crazy by American right-wing conservatives, the answer was, "it's an American idea," or "it's in the American Constitution."
So, what does Moore discover on his world tour? These are facts, although obviously, there are problems and pitfalls while every government struggles to keep up with rising costs, especially with respect to health care. In Italy, as well as the European Union, all workers get a minimum of four weeks vacation. Italians get time off for maternity leave and even get "honeymoon leave." All Italian workers receive a bonus for a thirteenth month of pay (presumably so that they have enough money to go on vacation). In France, school cafeterias serve nutritious 4-course meals prepared by a trained chef and regulated by municipal supervision. French schoolchildren receive sex education to be taught not just about birth control methods but to be taught responsibility and respect toward others in intimate relationships. In Finland where their students are now the highest performing in the world, they use unconventional educational theories--no homework, no standardized tests, a shorter school day, and an emphasis on play and the joy of learning. In Slovenia, university education is free, even for foreigners from the States, who can take the entire curriculum in English. Germany is outstanding for labor rights, where the individual happiness of every worker is paramount. In the German schools, Holocaust education is mandatory, and children are taught that they have to take responsibility for their history and to learn from it. In Portugal, street drugs have been decriminalized and the emphasis is on treatment, not on punishment and imprisonment. They now have a much lowered level of drug abuse and drug-related death in Portugal. Criticized at first internationally for their decision to decriminalize drugs, Portugal is now pointed to as a model for best practices. In Norway, the humane prison system, even for society's greatest offenders (serial murderers, rapists), is focused on rehabilitation and good quality of life for the prisoners. The main "punishment" is to restrict their freedom and keep them away from society. In Tunisia, it took a revolution to overthrow a dictator and implement full women’s rights in the Tunisian Constitution of 2014, which includes easy access to women's health and abortion clinics. In Iceland, after a revolutionary day in 1975 when all women went on strike, Icelandic women became prominent in government. The first woman president in the world to be democratically elected took office in Iceland in 1980, and Iceland is considered to be the most feminist country in the world. After the Icelandic bank failure of 2008, Iceland became the only country to send its bankers to jail. Iceland's economy has since recovered. Moore also does a quick review of the 1989 end of the Cold War, when German citizens took to the Berlin Wall with ice picks and helped to knock it down.
So, is the United States of America still the greatest country in the world? Philosophically speaking, not by a long shot. And President Trump's somewhat misguided vision of greatness, along with poor presidential advisers like Steve Bannon, is only going to make matters worse.
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Michael Moore travels around the world to “invade” countries and claim their best ideas for us to adopt. They include everything from gourmet school lunches in France to cushy prisons in Norway to legalized drugs in Portugal. Of course, each of the concepts shows how other countries have solved problems that plague us: poor education, high crime, failing workforce, sexism. The situations usually include Moore’s humorous observations, which can also be interpreted as subversive jabs at our society’s faults. Almost every segment goes on too long, which results in viewer fatigue before it’s over. Usually entertaining with an always frustrating message, it undermines the assumption that everything is better at home. Sadly, since it’s a doc, few people will see it and its valid ideas won’t likely land on our shores.
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Previous movies were better thought out. This one felt more like a money grab because a lot of the ideas were not well thought out nor investigated. For instance, the idea of women controlling banking is asinine because a simple review of failed banks would show that women led banks fell just as often as male led banks. The points about the death penalty are equally bad because they make it sound like we kill most of our inmates when in reality very few people are executed every year and their crimes are generally so heinous that if they were presented, even the nay-sayers would want to execute them. There were some good points made in the film such as those on education but they missed the mark when interviewees started rambling about "culture" and "poetry." These are not the things that make a great nation, and they never were, especially not culture.
The reality of life is that humanity as a whole, evolves around science and always has (not kings, the rich, or religion). In the old days it was simpler stuff like irrigation and print, later it was medicine and industrialization and today its all about tech and automation. Those are the things that matter in education and those are what push a country forward (and our entire species). But instead he wasted the interviews on meaningless drivel like pop music and good times, which incidentally were all made possible today, by science. When it comes to education you have to strike a balance between growth and practicality. I agree the homework in this country is practically worthless, but I disagree with not giving any assignments at all. Which brings me to the crux of the problem with his message about what is important in leadership and education... what happens if these people are faced with a hostile enemy like the Islamic Brotherhood? The answer is they will all fail because reality is that it will happen and when it does, these countries will not be able to defend themselves and their people will suffer greatly for it. I am not saying we should keep doing what we are doing with our military and our corrupt leadership and their corporate masters, but again, there needs to be some balance and that balance is not what these countries have achieved, nor has it been achieved here in the USA.
Overall, this was not a good movie because again, it was not well thought out. I still enjoyed some parts here and there and certainly I would love to move to a country with more vacation time and respect for workers and better k-12 education but the rest of the film fell flat. Again, his older movies were better.
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When people talk about the stupid things SJW do, they mean this guy. I'm not sure who watches this dribble and can call it patriotic. This guy hates, hates, hates America. We should put him in a plane and air drop him into the Middle East. Wonder how fast he would try to make it to the nearest American forces? Hopefully, they'd turn him away.
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Production Company
Dog Eat Dog Films,
IMG Films
Release Date Dec 23, 2015
Duration 2 h
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Michael Moore's most dangerous comedy
Awards
Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Film Club's The Lost Weekend
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Hamptons International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
