The Yes Men Fix the World (12A)

On the loose, two maverick, anti-corporate geniuses who use the media to expose capitalist wrongdoing

Director: Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno
With: Reggie Watts, Mike Bonanno, Andy Bichlbaum
France/UK/USA, 2009, 1 hour 27 minutes

Wed 3 March 4.45pm, Tue 9 2.15pm The Courtyard Hereford

Two 'jokers' in cheap suits set out to pull a hoax and astoundingly knock $2 billion off the market price of Dow Chemical. The context was the 1984 Bhopal tragedy in which deadly gas leaked out of the Union Carbide plant contaminating local workers to devastating effect. Bichlbaum and Bonanno (fictitious names) are the self-styled Yes Men with a mission to do the right thing. With apparent disingenuity they combat globalisation by pulling outrageously inventive anti-establishment stunts. What's chilling is that their transparently extremist Final Solution rhetoric doesn't fall on completely deaf ears and their absurd gimmicks (Survivaballs!) often impress. Serious and delightful in equal measure.