Michael Moore's Slacker Uprising (2007)
Dog Eat Dog Films

Description

Michel Moore writes:
Slacker Uprising takes place in the wake of "Fahrenheit 9/11," during the run-up to the 2004 election, as I traveled for 42 days across America, visiting 62 cities in a failed attempt to remove George W. Bush from office. My goal was to help turn out a record number of young voters and others who had never voted before. (That part was a success. Young adults voted in greater numbers than in any election since 18-year-olds were given the right to vote. And the youth vote was the only age group that John Kerry won.)

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Elections

Collected reviews and ratings

8.0 DVD Verdict | Clark Douglas

While I'm a good deal less enthusiastic about this film than I have been about the rest of Moore's work, I still found it a reasonably engaging viewing experience. I think a good twenty minutes or so could have been shaved off the running time to create a tighter and more effective film, but it's worth a look.
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7.0 Amazon user reviews

If Slacker Uprising comes across as partisan and self-important--witness the plentiful footage of excited crowds--Moore makes good points along the way, and the essential one is undeniable: everyone should vote, and it's disheartening that Americans need to be reminded of that fact... but they do.
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5.0 The Onion A.V. Club | Scott Tobias

... whatever its intent, this interminable 96-minute highlight reel plays like Moore's homage to himself
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5.0 PopMatters.com | Anthony Henriques

The problem with Slacker Uprising is that it feels too much like an amateur travelogue as opposed to a documentary made by one of the best artists in the medium.
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4.0 The Guardian | Ben Walters

Moore is a good rabble-rouser and his aim of motivating a historically indifferent sector of the electorate is laudable. There is ample evidence too of disturbingly undemocratic efforts by Republican activists to prevent him from speaking. But Slacker Uprising offers neither analysis of these tensions nor lessons from Kerry's defeat.
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4.0 DVD Talk | Preston Jones

It's telling that this film, itself a re-worked version of Moore's Captain Mike Across America, was more or less dumped online for free download and is being offered for a pittance on DVD.
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3.3 Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

Moore’s studentmobilization drive now looks prescient, but he should have kept this piece of wallpaper agitprop on the shelf.
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