Name: Cool It
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2010-09-14T05:33:54-07:00
Rating: 52

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Movie Info

Widely known as "the skeptical environmentalist," Danish scientist and gadfly Bjorn Lomborg has been vilified for his views on climate change. In this documentary, a companion to his book of the same name, Lomborg expounds on his opinion that the earth is not facing an imminent environmental catastrophe, contrary to the prevailing opinion of the scientific community. The filmmakers follow him as he travels the planet sharing his views in a series of interviews and lectures.

Rating:

PG (Thematic Elements)
Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

English
Director:

Ondi Timoner
Producer:

Terry Botwick, Sarah Gibson, Ondi Timoner, Ralph Winter
Writer:

Terry Botwick, Sarah Gibson, Ondi Timoner, Bjørn Lomborg
Release Date (Theaters):

Nov 12, 2010 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Dec 31, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA):

$62.7K
Runtime:

1h 29m
Production Co:

1019 Entertainment, Interloper Films

Cast & Crew

Hashem Akbari
Himself
Narrator

Bjørn Lomborg
Himself
Narrator

Joe Barton
Himself
Narrator

Ed Begley Jr.
Himself
Narrator

John Boehner
Himself
Narrator

Larry David
Himself
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Jam-packed but never disorienting, Cool It will definitely get your head spinning.

December 3, 2010 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Jennie Punter
Globe and Mail
Cool It resonates, and gives one pause not just to consider the merits of the global warming question, but to consider the merits of all that we've decided to do about it, impending doom notwithstanding.

November 19, 2010 | Rating: 3/5

Tim Cogshell
Boxoffice Magazine
Lomborg (with an assist from Timoner's straightforward, uncomplicated doc) is the voice of reason. Calm down, listen to what he has to offer, and then get to work. Apparently, it's not too late. Whew.

November 12, 2010 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle
Blond, boyish and with an irrepressible faith in human adaptability, Mr. Lomborg is the anti-Gore.

November 12, 2010 | Rating: 3/5

Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
It can be a little hard to digest so many ideas, especially in such rapid succession. The movie is never boring, but there may be some information overload for laymen in the audience.

November 12, 2010 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Randy Cordova
Arizona Republic
It's been five years since Gore warned us that we only have 10 years to fix global warming -- hey, Al, my apartment is near the Hudson River. Wanna bet it's still above water in 2015?

November 12, 2010 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Kyle Smith
New York Post
Lomborg presents himself well and his intriguing material deserves a forum for further discussion.

September 5, 2020 | Rating: 2.5/4.0 | Full Review…

Richard Propes
TheIndependentCritic.com
One of the talking heads that Cool It drops on the unsuspecting viewer notes with the slightly condescending chuckle of the large-brained that Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, was a "great piece of propaganda." No doubt it was. So is this.

September 16, 2019 | Full Review…

Noah Berlatsky
Splice Today
Instead of getting wrapped up in fads and jumping on bandwagon, Lomborg offers solutions to the problems facing the world.

October 14, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Kevin Carr
7M Pictures
That this documentary is solution-oriented rather than fear-oriented as so many recent ones...have been is itself a reason for touting it.

January 30, 2012 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Jay Antani
Cinema Writer
Controversial, but hopeful global warming documentary.

March 29, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Jeffrey M. Anderson
Common Sense Media
... a slick argument that is basically a subterfuge intended to promote a free-market absolutist approach to solving the global warming problem.

January 27, 2011 | Full Review…

Matt Kelemen
Las Vegas CityLife