This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

U.S. Documentarian Michael Moore travels to nine different countries (eight of them in Europe) in order to "invade" them i.e. to "steal" the best of their social policies and bring them back to the U.S. The ironic conclusion is sad as well as fascinating.Throughout this travelogue, the viewer learns of superior national policies and lifestyles: worker benefits (Italy and Germany), gourmet-like school lunches and open sex education (France), education systems with no homework and concentration on each child's full well-being (Finland), free university tuition even for foreign students (Slovenia), the benefits of fully acknowledging a nation's horrific past (Germany), how the legalization of drugs was followed by reduced drug use (Portugal), prison systems where the prisoners are treated with humanity and trust (Norway), a religious Muslim country that fully supports women's rights including full access to abortion (Tunisia), and how women's participation in banking and political life improves the lot for all (Iceland).This is Moore's best film since "Bowling for Columbine" (2002). Since "Farenheit 911", he started to go over-the-top and become didactic. In this current film, the preaching is behind and what we see is more of his intelligence, humour, and great skills at unveiling the facts. He has a deep concern for his country and it shows.Some moments are memorable: juxtaposing sound bites of past U.S. presidents condemning other countries' "barbarisms" with visual footage of great domestic troubles in the U.S.; one of three Italian CEO siblings failing to understand why someone would want to be richer by giving their workers less money and benefits (she couldn't give up the good relations she had with her staff); the looks of the faces of an Italian couple when they hear that American workers have no guaranteed vacation compared to their minimum of six weeks; a Portuguese drug expert casually comparing drug addiction to other addictions: alcohol, sugar, caffeine, and.......Facebook; an articulate Tunisian woman showing her genuine surprise as to why so many people would watch "The Kardashians"; and mostly the interview with a Norwegian man who lost his son to the mass murders of 2011. He did not show the desire for vengeance as one might expect.This movie is not without flaws. It's a bit too long at two hours. It also seems to whitewash any of the problems faced by the nine nations. Its claim at the end that we need more women in power is noble to a degree and logical in certain contexts but maybe this principle works better in a socialist society like Iceland than it would in other countries. In the U.S. (as well as my country of Canada), high-ranking female politicians are just as prone to greed and corruption as their male counterparts. This may be so in other countries as well. There is also no mention of the long history of European countries' prejudice against the Roma minority.In the end, this is still a fine documentary and it's great to see Moore back in his best form again.

This review will contain spoilers!You will in this movie follow Michael Moore's quest around the world for ideas that other countries developed to a greater extent than the Americans. The thoughts he highlights are for example how many weeks of paid vacation the Italians get, Portugal's laws around drug use, teenage pregnancies 'sin France, Norway's view on imprisonment and Finland's school system, but also more. In my opinion Michael Moore did a good job and caught my attention by bringing up these subjects above, but are his statements in the film true or does he have a hidden agenda and wants to change people's minds? Research shows that Italians don't get 8-9 weeks of paid vacation per year. On the contrary, at most, they get six whole weeks of paid vacation per year. This proves that Michael Moore's assertion is false (http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/lwp/papers/No_Holidays.pdf). Michael Moore indicates that France's adolescent fertilities are fewer than in America, and from what I found, there is ample support for this. 2015, teenage pregnancies within the ages 15 to 19 were in America 32 per 1000 and in France 9 per 1000. (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.ADO.TFRT? end=2015&locations=FR&start=2015&view=bar) Studies also shows results of how the pregnancy rate has decreased in both countries since 2011. In France the number has decreased with 64 percent and in the United States with 44 percent. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4852976/table/T1/#TFN5 ) It is still important to realize that Michael Moore wants to make a statement with the content of the documentary. For this reason he might twist the truth to get empathy, but this is not one of those cases. The fact that the pregnancy rate is much lower in France is true, nonetheless Moore's contention that it has to do with the different ways to talk about sex doesn't have to be. All things considered, I believe that this is a documentary worth watching. On one hand he shows various thoughts in different countries which, at least in my case, made me more curious about the priorities and the citizen's positive attitude to them. On the other hand it's a great film to reflect on and it contains subjects to be critical about, with its interesting meaning expressed in a funny and eye-catching way. To conclude, I would strongly recommend this documentary to everyone, as long as they keep in mind to be critical.

Where to invade next? – Review*This will contain spoilers*I've just watched the documentary "where to invade next by?" Michael Moore (2015). A well know director and author with other well-known documentaries. He is also known to have strong political view in his documentaries (liberal) which sometimes make his work a bit biased. Now I will tell you my opinion about the documentary.In this movie Mike is invading a bunch of European countries with the goal to steal some useful ideas for him to bring back home. He travels all around Europe and speaks to politicians, polices, teachers and so on. During his trip to Europe he only found good things to bring back to America, surprisingly. For example the vacation system in Italy, the food served in school cafeterias in France and the prison system in Norway. He is really questioning the way America is governed and praises the way many countries in is governed.In my point of view this documentary is a very biased one. He only shows the bad thing in every country and only the bad things from America. Like all of Europe is so great and America really hasn't got anything to offer the world. Also as I said in my introduction, he is a political activist and that his work can be a bit biased. According to me, if you are a producer for documentaries that is watched worldwide by so many people in many different ages you have to be unbiased, show different views and opinions. Even though it is very biased I have to give it to him that he is very good at proving his points and making people agreeing with him. A bad thing about this is also that he makes people believe in things that isn't really completely true. If you take the Italian vacation system for example, Michael says that the Italian gets 8 weeks of paid vacation every year, but is that really true? According to www.lifeinitaly.com and http://knowledge.leglobal.org/ a minimum of 4 weeks paid vacation is given and I really doubt there are many companies that double that time, nothing is said about that giving more weeks is common. Michael also says that there is no homework in Finland and that's also a false statement, in fact they have homework but not as much as in other countries. This is stated in many reliable Swedish newspapers such as svd.se and dn.se. Having this said I don't think you should believe everything said by him before double- checking. To conclude I would said it is a well-produced documentary if you are looking at what he wants to show us, even though it's very biased. I would not really recommend for educational way when you are learning about politics in the United States of America or Europe because of the way Michael only shows one side and sometimes he also hides the entire truth. But when you are learning about criticism of sources it's very useful. So I will rate the movie 6 out of 10. Thanks for reading!

This review will contain spoilers.Where to invade next was released in 2015 in Canada and United States of America and three months later they released it for the rest of the world. Michael Moore who wrote and directed this movie is back with another funny documentary that will for sure make you laugh but also show you the differences between USA and some other countries.This documentary is produced by Michael Moore, he's traveling around the world to conquer the best ideas and concepts and bring them back to the US. He does this in order to make a better society in the US. In the film he is traveling to places such as Italy, France, Tunisia, Slovenia, Portugal and Norway to find out if the working conditions, school lunches, gender equality etc.. are better there and why it's better. But this movie is extremely misleading if you believe that just because one school have nice food doesn't mean the entire country has the same quality. It's simply impossible. Likewise, the statement that Germany have so good working condition can't be confirmed unless other sources can back it up. He portrays Europe as if we don't have any flaws at all and that's totally wrong, every country has their flaws but he doesn't show the entire picture and that makes the film really unreliable. So what can we call it? A documentary or propaganda?But, I really loved the film because of the humor in it but also that it's so serious. Everybody should see the movie and judge it for themselves. I'm sure you will learn something fun, but also a lot of interesting facts you didn't knew about those countries earlier. I guess Michael Moore also has a hidden reason behind this movie. He wants us to discuss and talk to each other about it and the differences between the countries.I highly recommend this movie.