Movie Review: The Big One

'The Big One' is Micheal Moore's second movie, the first being 'Roger and Me'. I definately liked the Big One more than Roger and Me, mainly because Roger and Me seems very repetative and everything that is said in it is summed up in the Big One. The movie follows Moore on his book tour for his book "Downsize This!". He goes to small unpopular hometowny cities instead of major cities that you would expect on a book tour. Along the way he finds corporate greed and various companies downsizing, shipping their factories to the 3rd world, when they have all time high profits. He goes to different companie headquarters and gives one company of each state the "Downsizer of the Year Award" signed by Micheal Moore. Often, this award comes with one of those huge snazzy checks that you usually see with Ed McMann. The check is for only a few cents and Moore gives it to the businessmen telling them that he is so proud of their business that he is offering to pay for the first hour of work done by the newly hired underpaid 14 year olds of the 3rd world. The movie has a lot of great moments and can be pretty funny at some points. I especially liked the footage in the end credits when Moore speaks with the owner of Nike. The Nike guy says "Well just watch, one of these days one of those people we pay 40 cents an hour in Indonesia will end up being your landlord", to which Moore responds, "...what does that mean?" It also has a really great advertisement for TWA airlines at the end of the movie... but you will just have to see it to know what it is. And I do suggest that you see this movie.
I am also really looking foward to Moore's very newest movie that comes out in theatres on June 25th. It is about the Bush administration, the patriot act, 911 and other bullshit we've been dealing with. His movie is called "Fahrenheit 9/11". Click the link to watch the trailer for it, it looks pretty interesting.
As for 'the Big One', I'll give it 4 stars.