The Yes Men Fix the World (2009)

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Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum are known as the Yes Men, and this documentary trails these prankster activists while they pose as representatives of major companies and make bold representations in the name of corporate responsibility. DP

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87 min Minutes

Genre(s):
Documentary
Director(s):
Andy Bichlbaum
Mike Bonanno
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Writer(s):
Andy Bichlbaum (idea)
Mike Bonanno (idea)
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Dayna Papaleo on November 18th, 2009

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Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are known collectively as The Yes Men, and this thought-provoking follow-up to the 2003 documentary that introduced us to their prankster activism continues their campaign against corporate greed. "The Yes Men Fix The World" observes as they upload fake company websites and then field invitations to events by groups that probably now devote a bit more time to background checks. "World-renowned troublemakers" in the liberal vein of Michael Moore or Sacha Baron Cohen, Bichlbaum and Bonanno stuff their huge stones into cheap suits to go introduce ridiculous initiatives by companies like Halliburton and Exxon as hidden cameras capture audience reaction, which ranges from repulsed to disturbingly enthusiastic.

The most entertaining hoax chronicled in the film is reserved for Dow Chemical, whose compassionate stockholders freaked out when Bichlbaum went on the BBC to announce Dow's non-existent plans for financial restitution to the victims of the devastating 1984 environmental disaster in Bhopal, India. Though most of the interviewees don't have to try terribly hard to look foolish, this is clearly Bichlbaum and Bonanno's show, with smug sound bytes edited between silly stock animation and double-take reactions. It will be argued whether The Yes Men are doing more harm than good with stunts whose repercussions are admittedly felt beyond just the rich, but, in the words of one Bhopal activist, it's "totally worth it."

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