The Yes Men Fix the World (2009) poster
2009 · documentary · political

The Yes Men Fix the World

Directed by Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, Kurt Engfehr1h 27m2009
ElsewhereIMDb7.55kRT75%Metacritic71
  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • funny
Movie DNA

Warm, kinetic, gentle documentary / political, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world's most outrageous pranks.

Our read · The Yes Men Fix the World (2009) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive documentary · political entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want irreverent activists pranking corporations with clever satire.

ends upliftingit stays with yousteady all the waygrips by minute 6attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou want fiction or a serious straight-faced documentary.

If The Yes Men Fix the World is your film
The Yes Men (2003)
earlier pranks by the same activist duo
(if you want newer material)
The Corporation (2003)
documentary exposing corporate power structures
(unless talking-head docs bore you)
Super Size Me (2004)
gonzo personal stunt exposing corporate greed
(if you dislike first-person experiments)
DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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