Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 55
Fresh: 33 | Rotten: 22
This documentary traces Franken's transformation from humorist to activist with entertaining, if uneven, results.
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 7
This documentary traces Franken's transformation from humorist to activist with entertaining, if uneven, results.
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The documentary Al Franken: God Spoke follows the comedian-turned-pundit as he goes about his daily business. Through the course of the film, Franken discusses his transformation from comedy to politics, and discusses his ambitions. Franken also takes every opportunity to jab at his political opponents in the right wing. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
Unrated, 1 hr. 30 min.
Sep 22, 2006 Limited
Apr 24, 2007
Balcony Releasing
All Critics (60) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (34) | Rotten (23) | DVD (6)
This film by Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus forces us to make some decisions about him. For myself, I find him generally gross, in person and in manner.
A documentary in search of a story.
Often entertaining.
What this documentary lacks in intent, insight, and surprise it makes up for in thoroughness.
Franken doesn't allow the knee-jerk predictability of his liberal pronouncements to deflate the great gasbag that he becomes as the movie proceeds.
Most of this doc is content to wander through Franken's recent show-biz resume, to no particular end.
A humorous, but more importantly illustrative, documentary about the weight of the media -- especially the comedic media -- on the last presidential election.
A inteligência de Franken é notória, assim como seu pavor à retórica da direita norte-americana %u2013 algo que o filme ilustra de maneira burocrática. Além disso, sua falta de foco leva-o a parecer um mero instrumento de propaganda, o que é lamentável.
This uncritical bio-pic presents Franken as more of an intrepid intellectual on a mission than a funnyman in search of laughs, leaving one to wonder whether he's contemplating a rumored run for the U.S. Senate in his native Minnesota.
This uncritical bio-pic presents Al as more of an intellectual on a mission than a funnyman in search of laughs, leaving one to wonder whether the purpose here was to makeover Al into a political figure for his rumored run for the U.S. Senate.
Entertaining cinéma-vérité piece
There's so much previously available material used that for a while "God Spoke" looks like the first documentary assembled entirely from YouTube clips.
Always engaging, often insightful, [and] at times deeply moving.
I haven't seen this much smug, awkward laughter and bathos since, well, Man of the Year.
Whether one agrees with his point of view or not, it's a message worth hearing.
A documentary about the comedian and satirist who sees himself as a leftward leaning crusader for Truth and Justice in an era of Lying Liars.
Feisty, quick-witted and quixotic, Franken takes on such right-wing demigods as Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity.
The documentary skims the surface, appreciating Franken's crass, troublemaking modus operandi. This would be OK if the doc were crammed with hilarious footage, but Franken comes off as more droll and bitter than clever.
With his nearly nonstop, self-congratulatory monologues and his seemingly insincere attitude, he comes off as every bit as much an insufferable blowhard as his conservative counterparts.
I imagine that Al Fraken has a very very difficult job. The bluster one must experience in a world of pundits is probably hurricane-like, so it's amazing that Franken can keep smiling and being funny. It's really his personality more than anything that drives this documentary, but it's a little hard to focus on him
June 18, 2008Super Reviewer
I'm not 100% sure this film deserves a 9. It assuredly does not deserve the 6.2 it's currently got at IMDB, but Al Franken is a polarizing subject, even though I do not believe he himself tries to polarize people. Yeah, okay. He was planning to spend 3 November gloating on his show. However, I think that in no
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