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.

You do? Then does Michael Moore have a treat for you! What with this being an election year, it’s Michael Moore’s duty to ram hectoring, boorish, borderline propagandaish political information down everyone’s throats until they literally fart tedium. Only this time, he’s going to do it for free.

Michael Moore has announced that his fans can watch his new movie Slacker Uprising for free on the internet. Provided they do it in a designated three-week window and live in North America, that is. If this doesn’t include you, don’t get upset – you can probably achieve the same effect by going up to a fat tramp and getting him to whine about the government for a couple of hours and then shout at a building through a megaphone.

As things stand, there’s quite a big chance that America won’t have a Republican president by next year. And, as such, there’s quite a big chance that Michael Moore will be out of a job.

Michael Moore’s really come into his own over the last eight years by churning out films and books all about the various ways that the Republicans have narked him off, so if Barack Obama gets into power he’ll be reduced to making documentaries about kittens and writing books called I Essentially Agree With Everything Now: The Dumb Noddings Of Michael Moore.

So, on the off-chance that happens, Michael Moore needs to go out with a bang. But not the old sort of Michael Moore bang – the sort where he’d deliberately break the law and then bitch about it for months after – this time Michael Moore wants to go out on a completely new type of bang.

That’s right – Michael Moore’s doing a Radiohead.

Not literally, obviously – Michael Moore isn’t going to make one of his eyes go all squinty and wail about existential alienation in a manner that depresses a teenagers – but he is going to give his new film away for free on the internet. BBC News reports:

Oscar winner Michael Moore is to release his latest documentary free of charge on the internet. Slacker Uprising will be available as a download to North American viewers for three weeks from 23 September. Moore said he had considered a cinematic release to coincide with the current presidential race, but decided the internet would best “help get the vote out for November”.

And, if you don’t live in America, plan to observe the three-week Karlstad treaty memorial internet boycott that starts on September 23 or just don’t like Michael Moore very much, here’s the closest you’ll ever get to Slacker Uprising – the trailer…

Clever huh? It looks to us like Michael Moore spent all that money filming his political tour of America but couldn’t really release it as a film afterwards because everyone ended up voting for George Bush – ultimately making the tour a failure – only to later realise he could pin it to Barack Obama’s upsurge in popularity and make it look as if he invented getting young people to vote all along. But we could be wrong.

Either way, it’s nice to be given stuff for free – even if we’re not geographically allowed to watch the poxy thing anyway – so just imagine how much nicer it would be if the film was about something other than two hours of people congratulating Michael Moore for being such a bloody decent person.