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This has its fair share of problems as average left-leaning white guy
Spurlock decides that he can't bring a child into an unsafe world and
therefore it's his duty to his unborn child to go off and find the
world's number one terrorist.
For starters, Spurlock's more than happy to cram in gags and video game
CGI to make light of his quest early on, which doesn't really sit right
when he starts visiting various Middle Eastern countries and discovers
that they're just people like him.
You could argue that his use of video game imagery is designed to show
how we're conditioned to see conflicts like The War on Terror in the
West, with the later scenes where Spurlock just hangs out with average
Middle-Eastern folk showing the reality behind those images... but
that's probably drawing a long bow.
What is true is that the scenes in the Middle East are both interesting
and informative, and as a narrator Spurlock knows when to hang back and
keep his mouth shut to let his subjects speak for themselves.
The result isn't completely successful overall - the split between
early comedy and later drama is a little too wide, and Spurlock never
makes the shift believable as a reflection of his own changing
perspective on the issue - but by focusing on the human side of the
issue (especially on the children, which ties in nicely with his own
situation as a soon-to-be-father) he's made a film that has some
worthwhile things to say. DVD EXTRAS
The flick didn't fare as well at cinemas as Supersize Me, and it shows.
The
DVD is skint on extras material, or at least the copy we recieved. But
you can't imagine there would be to much more - of interest anyway -
that wasn't already included in the film itself.
Conclusion:
Movie 70% Extras: N/A
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