A brilliant example of satire. Unfortunately, Michael Moore, having failed at the box office with his first feature film, moved to documentary films, and never returned. And this fact, I think, immeasurably impoverished the genre of acute satirical pamphlet.
True American provincial "Hurrah Patriots" are shown by Moore with such love that it is impossible not to succumb to their charm. The story with the Canadian confrontation will later be untwisted in the full-length South Park, and released two years later, the film “Slackery” had a similar plot. And the more valuable the idea of Moore looks.
America is shown by Moore from two completely polar sides - cynical politicians who run the country and seek only their own profit, and ordinary Americans who naively allow themselves to hang noodles on their ears, but no one will ever let doubt their own independence and national power.
Moore created a very strong film, managing to cram a serious lady into a light and unpretentious dress.
P.S. The President of the United States at a press conference on the occasion of the taking of a US citizen hostage by the Canadian authorities addressed the Prime Minister of Canada: “Surrender her pronto or we’ll level Toronto.” One of the many jokes that got lost in the Russian translation.