The Yes Men Fix the World

Outrageously entertaining.

Entertainment that tickles the justice-for-all glands.

What have the Yes Men actually accomplished with their japery? Their film is an inadvertent reminder that activist antics are not the same thing as reform.

For those who enjoy the shift-in-your-seat kick of seeing emperors caught with their knickers down, however, the squirm factor achieved by the Yes Men out-Borats Sacha Baron Cohen at his most confrontational.

An odd combination of righteous, raucous and rueful.

Finds its titular merry pranksters up to yet more capitalist-critiquing chicanery and fat-cat-fooling fun.

Given the duo’s withering take on capitalism, it’s ironic that their stumbling second feature feels throughout like an infomercial for a shtick whose expiration date is rapidly approaching.