AVClub: When Michael Moore’s latest documentary was announced as part of the Toronto International Film Festival lineup a few months ago, only its title, Where To Invade Next, was provided—no synopsis or log line. Many people reflexively cringed, imagining some sort of bellicose rant about American foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East. As it turns out, however, Moore is in an unusually playful mood this time around, and his hypothetical invasions are cultural rather than military. Pretending that the Joint Chiefs Of Staff have sent him on a mission, he travels to various European countries with the intention of “annexing” their good ideas, or at least claiming said ideas for the good ol’ U.S. of A. After several films in a row that leaned too hard on manipulative emotional appeals (Fahrenheit 9/11 was especially galling in that regard), Moore here makes his strongest bona fide argument in ages, albeit one that still gleefully stacks the deck and avoids examining possible downsides too carefully. He even comes across as genuinely patriotic, in his own way.
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