I saw this as a local matinee - Friday was Sold out both shows in my town and pretty full for a Sat Matinee.

I have to say whether I agree with Michael Moore aside his films are damn entertaining. This time he's not in it very much at all and basically lets the politicians let them contradict themselves. It's humourous, sad, angry and unabashadly anti - George W. Bush.

There is nothing necessarily new about most of what has presented - but the advantage of any two hour film is that Moore can get what one person said on tape in 2001 and then what the same person says now - nothing new about Politicians who say the exact opposite things but most people do forget when 2 or 3 years go by.

Some parts he does not follow up - and leaves it more inuendo than fact - but it's rarely weak inuendo and there are a lot of things that should get Americans questioning certain aspects of the film. I would be surprised quite frankly if even die-hard Republicans would not find much in here to at the very least raise an eyebrow at a number of things. Moore managed to get some pretty interesting documents and interviews with cabinet members.

It is a much tighter film than Bowling for Columbine which fudged numbers here and there to make Moore's arguments stronger - but in fact ended up being detrimental to his arguemnt. There is less of his usual in your face style(some is used comically)

He uses almost no numbers this time which got him in trouble in BFC so it's less likely they can be used against him at later dates - again if you get it from the horses mouths themselves you can't be accused of fudging numbers - So I think Moore is far more reigned in here - and because he is and his film is tight it's not surprising certain entities tried to get it stopped - especially certain documents that he attained before the white house blacked out certain sections - CNN got that copy and fed to the people Moore got the uncensored version that we now get in this movie.

Making Bush look silly isn't tough nor is it a real strength in the movie as we all know he is a terrible communicator - but some things you just have to chuckle at.

One weakness is when he talks about the coalition of the willing - he needs to be careful not to weaken his position with omission. Not including the entirety of the facts is a lie of omission and if there is an issue this is it. I can give him a bit of a break because it would be tough on this film-maker's resources to be able to dig in OTHER countries records and that undertaking would be gigantic. He is saved too by the fact that Bush himself was never overly open about it himself.

This is one of the best movies for a movies sake I've seen in a long time - I don't buy all the arguements - some however are undeniable and the film does what you want from an entertainment - Can upset you in one scene and make you laugh out loud a few minutes later. It is one of the few that I've been to that have had people clap at the end. You anti-Moore people just go and have a laugh. I'm probably more left being from Canada but I still enjoy a good joke from Dennis Miller.