Letting the ticket stubs fall where they may with The Da Vinci Code, I read with interest Slate.com's review of Vice President Al Gore's new movie, An Inconvenient Truth.

Bemoaning the lack of action in the plodding film, writer Gregg Easterbrook says "Instead, we get a 100-minute PowerPoint presentation interrupted by outtakes from campaign ads, plus shots of Gore apparently rendered despondent by the weight of his environmental knowledge."

Though Easterbrook calls the movie "admirable" and "motivated by the sense of civic responsibility Hollywood on the whole has abandoned," he is quick to point out that Gore has taken, uh, liberties with the truth, or, at best, repeatedly presents worse-case scenarios.

Currently scientists are concerned that sea levels may rise up two to three inches in the 21st century due to melting icecaps; the movie shows a simulated flood of Manhattan, with sea levels rapidly rising up to 20 feet.

According to Slate, the movie takes heavy shots at Republicans as wasteful and lacking compassion, with Gore pushing the Think Green mentality as he hops aboard a petroleum-guzzling jet plane.

I think I'm going to wait for the DVD of this one. I can't take two hours of Al Gore all at once. Using the PAUSE button on my TV's remote doesn't use up extra energy, does it?

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