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All right, so I just watched it.

He's still Michael Moore, and this is a Michael Moore film through and through. I don't know what I was expecting.

He had me when he was focusing on individual stories and testimony and what have you, but as soon as he started editorializing, the horseshit just started piling up. The whole section during which Moore glorifies France's socialist practices is pretty misleading. He makes a point -- twice -- of mentioning how wonderful France's educational system is and that the French don't have to pay for college. And while the idea sounds well and good when Michael Moore's smugly asking why the States doesn't have a similar program, the fact of the matter is that France's higher educational system is severely lacking. I studied in Toulouse last spring, and I saw the university system first-hand. Teachers are underpaid, schools are understaffed and underfunded, resources are limited, and students are incredibly unhappy -- it's far from the socialist paradise that Moore would lead us to believe.