Where To Invade Next: Michael Moore’s New Love Letter to America

Hey, you! (That means you, specifically, if you’re reading these words.) (If you’re not, I wasn’t talking to you, anyway. Duhhh!)

Far be it from me to tell anyone else how to live, who to vote for, or what to think or believe, but may I suggest that you make the very next film you see Michael Moore’s “Where To Invade Next.”

Michael Moore in a scene from his remarkable new documentary “Where To Invade Next”

It’s the most extraordinary and optimistic film, I think, of Michael Moore’s entire inspired, acclaimed, and controversial career, and if you’re at all like me in your admiration of his no-frills narrative power and people-first focus, you know that’s saying something.

As you probably know, Michael’s suffered through a bout of pneumonia in recent weeks and, at last report, he was still confined to an intensive-care unit—which spells trouble for the new film because he hasn’t been able to criss-cross the country to promote the film properly and personally. 

And what that means is this: If “Where To Invade Next” is going to attract the audience it so richly deserves (and perhaps succeed even modestly at the box-office), it’s up to people like us, friends of Michael Moore who’ve never met him, to promote it for him.

So here’s my best shot:

“Where To Invade Next” is an amazing documentary. It will make you laugh and cry—at least, it made me cry, which isn’t exactly an everyday thing, although yelling at the TV when Hillary sneers that Bernie’s ideas “just aren’t practical” has become one. 

Regardless,“Where To Invade Next” may very well piss you off, too, and make you wonder exactly how our nation went so wrong, before it makes you start to imagine ways we can still fix it.

I’d tell you more, but I’d rather let Michael Moore’s work speak for itself — just as soon as you’re able to shake yourself free from the Blogger/Facebook/YouTube trance you’re in, pop into appropriate clothes, and get yourself to the Cineplex Maximus of your choice, maybe even with a friend or two.

You’ll probably want to thank me, after you do all that. But don’t thank me. Thank Michael Moore.

“Where To Invade Next” is his Valentines Day love letter to us all, America. Please don’t miss it.

Click this link to check out the trailer.

Then get moving. There’s still plenty of time to make the next showing, but only if you stop fucking around.