Everyone in America should see this movie.

Not to change anyone's views, not because I think Moore's opinions are always right, not to 'teach anyone a lesson' (although it may, you never know)...but just because it's a scary and fascinating film about important stuff, and it's a great starting point for a discussion that we all need to learn how to have if we want things to get better.

Moore handles really painful and touchy subjects- death, murder, the Columbine and Oklahoma City killings, the NRA, gun control- and manages to keep the film from degenerating into either a diatribe, a maudlin memorial, or a scarefest...his characteristic sense of humor and the absurdities of life come through loud and clear. He is also very good at showing people as they are- the ideas and feelings of a grieving father and traumatized classmates are represented as fairly as those of militant NRA members or of citizens of other countries, appalled at the way we live our lives.

Great to see a film in which Marilyn Manson comes off better than Charlton Heston in the 'articulate and reasonable human being' department, and Moore's statistics were a real eye-opener- after it was over, I turned to Mr. Otter and said, "you know, if it weren't for the weather and the VAT, I'd move to Canada in a minute." Mr Otter: "I was thinking the same thing myself..."

Go see it. Don't make excuses, don't put it off, if you missed it in the theatres go rent it now. Right now. What are you waiting for? GO!