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Where to Invade Next, Blu-ray (2016)

by Audiophile Audition | Apr 24, 2016 | DVD & Blu-ray Video Reviews

May be the best Michael Moore film yet; quite subversive in its message. Where to Invade Next, Blu-ray (2016) Director & main cast: Michael Moore Studio: Anchor Bay (5/10/16) Video: 1.78:1 for 16:9 widescreen, 1080p HD color Audio: English & other languages with subtitles, Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Subtitles: Where needed, Spanish Length: 120 min. Rating: ***** The Oscar-winning director who has sometimes put his heavy frame too conspicuously in some of his films, here deals with some of the most pressing issues facing Americans today and finds solutions in the most unlikely countries, where he symbolically plants the American flag as though he is a one-man invasion to steal their ideas. This is an unusual call to arms to re-capture ideas which America often originated but have been forgotten in this country while used to great effect in other countries. The police in Portugal (where drug use is all legal) say that America must get rid of capital punishment as a first step. Even the poorest grade schools in France have a special nutritious menu and the chef of one showed five different cheeses that he served. In Finland they have the highest education rate and the high schoolers who […]