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Critics Consensus: The Emperor's New Clothes offers trenchant, timely insight on the current socioeconomic climate that is only partly undermined by star Russell Brand's self-aggrandizing on-screen persona.
Critic Consensus: The Emperor's New Clothes offers trenchant, timely insight on the current socioeconomic climate that is only partly undermined by star Russell Brand's self-aggrandizing on-screen persona.
All Critics (38) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (22) | Rotten (16)
The latest effort from British director Michael Winterbottom is a well-intentioned but poorly executed documentary on wealth inequality.
It too often feels like "Button-Pushing Encounters with Russell Brand."
Advocacy documentaries simply don't get better or more compelling than this.
Brand is a hectoring irritant throughout the film, a walking info dump who occasionally makes a spectacle of himself for the camera.
The only experience more enervating than hearing about The Emperor's New Clothes is actually watching it.
"The Emperor's New Clothes" is moderately effective agitprop.
Filmmaker Winterbottom has crafted an informative yet persistently erratic documentary that benefits from an ongoing emphasis on personal stories...
In this Michael Winterbottom documentary, Brand's Left-wing agenda is undisguised and his views go unchallenged, but he tilts at the familiar windmills with passion, humour and some persuasive, if selective, statistics.
The structure of the film, as bouncy as Brand is himself, doesn't generate much more than curiosity. This is activism as oddity, and while that's not worthless the way some might claim, it's also not exactly inspiring.
The Emperor's New Clothes is watchable, though its long running time and slightly repetitive nature make it a bit warring for those who understand the financial situation.
[Brand] manages to make the information accessible and understandable to everyone. And everyone should be horrified.
Russell Brand does his best Michael Moore impersonation, except with results that are more muddled than persuasive.
Russell Brand takes us on a enigmatic journey inside the corporate heads and dirty deals of banks as well as the growing capitalist regime dominating worldwide financial markets. You may compare him to Michael Moore, targeting the rich profiteering from there gross income whilst ignoring their financial compensation towards the public on ordinary matters getting away with dirty deeds that have you screaming out 'Guilty". Very fascinating and insightful in scope, with enough radicalized wit and glamour of Brand's own political activism. Caution is advised as well as open minds encouraged when watching a documentary like this.
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