FtW (Fix the World)

Incredible is the word.

The Yes Men, who are on a mission to expose the nastiness of powerful evildoers, outshines the likes of Borat and even Michael Moore by numbers in their 2nd flick "The Yes Men Fix the World".

These elaborate, cunning pranks are political activism at its funniest, and once again prove that humour succeeds where dead-seriousness often fails in shedding a light on and drawing attention to ugly political subjects.

Personally I can't believe these guys haven't got locked up yet (well, actually I can, after reading up on The McLibel Case).



IMDB synopsis:

"The film consists of a several pranks on major corporations and governmental agencies that are performed by Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno (in real life Jacques Servin & Igor Vamos) who fancy themselves serious anti-globalization activists.

The two pose as executives from Exxon, Dow Chemical, Halliburton and the H.U.D. They give faux corporate interviews pretending to be DOW executives in which they supposedly announce setting up a $12 billion fund for the victims of the 1984 Bhopal disaster that killed 1,773 people. The BBC fell for this prank and aired the faux interview. This caused DOW's stock plummet. Our mindless heroes celebrate their power, but fail to realize that most of DOW's stock is held by pension funds; in other words, regular working class retirees. The dynamic duo conveniently found a few such victims who claimed to enjoy the hoax and its impact on DOW's stock."