Hey kids, can’t work out if you can be bothered to vote yet? Would a movie about a fat bloke lobbing noodles at some students help? It would?
Why that’s just great, because Michael Moore‘s new movie Slacker Uprising is now available to view for free on the internet, provided that you’re American and literally have nothing better to do with your time.
Slacker Uprising is, of course, Michael Moore’s way of urging the young voters of America to wake up and vote in the coming general election. Well, at least that’s what he says. It’s clearly Michael Moore’s way of urging young voters to vote Democrat, otherwise it wouldn’t be called Slacker Uprising. If he wanted people to vote Republican he would’ve called it something else, like Hey You! Get Off My Yacht! My Father Owns This Bay, You Dirty Mexican!
We can’t wait for the American general election to be over, because everything’s getting so bloody politicised at the moment. Celebrities are talking politics, the MTV VMAs were absurdly political and we’re pretty sure that the last episode of Sesame Street we watched was brought to us by the letter K and the concept of off-shore drilling.
What makes us most angry about this is that all everyone’s sudden interest in politics is effectively taking food from Michael Moore’s table. Now, admittedly Michael Moore could probably do with eating a bit less anyway, but that isn’t the point.
The point is this: politics is Michael Moore’s thing. When Michael Moore is angered by something political, he makes a movie about it and the problem goes away, like when George Bush didn’t get reelected after Fahrenheit 911 or when all medicine was banned after Sicko.
So, to remind everyone that actually he’s the one who invented politics in the first place, Michael Moore has decided to release his new movie for free online.
Entitled Slacker Uprising, the film follows Michael Moore’s 2004 college tour, where he shouted the word ‘vote’ at lecture halls full of students for three hours, threw a packet of noodles at someone and then brought on Michael Stipe to silently nod until everyone got a bit freaked out and sort of politely tried to edge towards the door. Or, as The Washington Post puts it:
The 97-minute flick, as subtle as a sledgehammer, is Moore’s account of his barnstorming tour of the country in advance of the 2004 presidential election, an effort undertaken to “save John Kerry and the Democrats from themselves.” Its message to Democrats in 2008 — implicit, but screamingly so — is, don’t let this happen again.
Anyway, Michael Moore’s Slacker Uprising is now available to watch for free online at Slackeruprising.com, provided you live in North America. Since we don’t, we haven’t got a clue if the film’s any good or not. That’s why, if you’re American, we want you to watch Slacker Uprising and then explain it to all us non-Americans below in exactly five words. Or an emoticon.
Nothing too taxing, please. We wouldn’t want to to think we actually care about any of this.
