The Yes Men 2003

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: The Yes Men's political performance art is very funny and much care obviously goes into it. Read more

Allison Benedikt, Chicago Tribune: They'll make you hoot. They'll make you think. And they'll make you wonder how often you drink the Kool-Aid. Read more

Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: It is hard not to be sporadically impressed by the audacity with which they stir people, some influential, out of complacency about the plight of the world's poor. Read more

Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Chronicle: Achieves what any good documentary tries to: It's thought-provoking, insightful and entertaining at the same time. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: [They're] playing these jokes on these obscure audiences. Read more

Ed Halter, Village Voice: Provides a therapeutic laugh for liberal audiences whose mouth corners have long been turned downward by the plumb bobs of reality. Read more

Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: The filmmakers include some good behind-the-scenes footage ... and have unfettered access, but the movie sometimes feels like one long college fraternity stunt. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: A likable documentary profile. Read more

Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: Smart and amusing. Read more

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Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Parody, satire, and pranksterism are all the fashion in creative activism -- at least on the left -- and as masters of the form, the canny, politicized performing artists in the eponymous documentary The Yes Men are the ones to beat. Read more

Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News: The Yes Men feels padded at only 83 minutes, as if the footage had been stretched to fill the running time, but it gets the point across that humanity is sorely missing from the corporate world. Read more

Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: An uproarious and appalling piece of consciousness-raising. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: Suffers because its three directors ... make us watch far too much preparation for the Yes Men stunts, there's far too much exposition about why and what they're doing and too many glitches in the process. Read more

Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: A sobering documentary done in a whimsical style. Read more

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: The Yes Men profiles a coterie of anti-corporate activists who travel the world with sartorial flair, political ire and a prodigious sense of the absurd. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: A clumsy movie. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: They have such colorful characters and such an alarming story to tell that the film works in spite of its imperfections. Read more

David Edelstein, Slate: Breezy, brief, and often a howl. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: You can question the ethics of the ploy, but you can't argue with the absurdly revealing results. Read more

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Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: This sly little documentary packs a wickedly satiric punch. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Equally funny and sketchy -- like a leftist reality TV show that somehow took on an extra hour and pulled a guerrilla infiltration of movie theatres. Read more

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Dennis Harvey, Variety: A rough-hewn but sometimes very funny sort of performance diary. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Yes, The Yes Men is funny, but it's humor that hurts. Read more

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: It's so smirkily inside-baseball it never bothers to make its argument; the film simply proceeds from the assumption that all of us in the audience are in agreement with its point. Read more