Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Chrysanthepop On the surface, Franny Armstrong's 'The Age of Stupid' may seem like just another 'save the planet' type documentary that follows Al Gore's now overrated 'An Inconvenient Truth' but it does make some relevant points particularly on how this effects the developing countries and the common citizen of developed countries (in this day of consumerism when too much is changing too fast). Armstrong takes a look at how some cultures are affected using individual examples. For example, there's the aspiring doctor Layefa Malemi who lives in a poverty stricken region where even clean water is a scarcity and then there's the businessman Jeh Wadia who's working hard to launch his airline company to provide the 'ordinary citizen' with the option to commute through flight. I wonder how affordable the price is made for the ordinary working population. In addition, through an Iraqi family Armstrong also looks at how war, in addition to causing human loss can cause severe environmental damage that may lead to chronic difficulties. At the same time the writer also attempts to show us the other perspective as is the case of Indian businessman Jeh Wadia who appears to start a new airline company to facilitate travelling for the working class citizen (even though the point is made that planes cause severe pollution). On the technical front, it's well shot and edited. The special effects are quite decent and with the legendary Pete Posthlewaite little can go wrong.

blissdragon I have deeply studied the climate science, and have been presenting this information publicly. I had no idea there was a movie already made about this...the new time lines of the climate crisis are precisely conveyed by this movie. In a way that is *accessible*. And that is even entertaining. This is humanity's very last chance to redeem himself to the planet/nature/god (call it what you will). As a species, we are flunking out. Of course, there are plenty of comments below about the preposterousness of climate science. These commenters have been hornswoggled by the propaganda of the right wing of American politics, and their funding fathers, the fossil fuel corporations. These commenters know not what they spew.

stg213 Of late, indie & to a lesser extent corporate media is flooded with "awareness-type" documentaries that try to present a green point of view, and shake people out of apathy.The Age of Stupid is one of the better attempts in regard at least to asking the right question: "why are we not stopping when it's obvious to just about everyone that things cannot go on this way for much longer?".I wouldn't call the answers provided by the film "excellent" but at least in part they are closer to truth than most of the ones presented in other documentaries. For example, compared to "Home", it's in a completely different class at tackling real issues. Home does nothing to address the real issues but just hits you with pretty pictures and says to go petition your local administration. Gore's flick barely scratches the surface but maybe as another reviewer noticed, it was necessary at the level of people's thinking at the time.The single documentary I've seen so far that really covers the "whole story" is the less known 2007 "What a way to go. Life at the end of empire." That one goes to the very bottom of the question of "why aren't we stopping" and does an almost excellent job at getting the viewer to understand, not only rationally but also emotionally what's actually going on.On the bright side, in more "mainstream" docu's on global warming & the "other (far more important) stuff" I see a move from surface scratching stuff like Gore's "Truth" to more in depth movies, like "age of stupid".On the downside, global warming is still the overarching theme of the movie, and the more serious issues don't get the attention they deserve. Global Warming may be "Civilization-threatening" but it's a warm breeze compared to ecological collapse due to agriculture-induced extinction. A warmer planet may be bad for big cities, a domino-like failure of life-cycles on the other hand... The dangerous part of these kind of documentaries is giving the impression that rationing your carbon foot-print is enough, that "going green" will make a difference, it does not, it just reinforces complacency and the idea that "I'm doing something, so everything is going to be just fine". Sorry folks, it's not... and no matter how carbon-free our products are we're still in deep s**t. Or put otherwise, we can destroy life on earth using solar as well as oil... as long as that's the main goal.

5h4d0w ... and also thanks to the ratings and comments on the message board. (i want to point out that there was a lot more negative ratings/comments about this movie when i first reviewed it)the film shows multiple stories which cover different aspects of how people contribute climate change and how they are affected in return. the nice thing is that it isn't a emotionally distanced documentary that just shows the results in a rather cold manner but also shows motivations of people and parts of their personal life.a similar assumption to the one being made at the end of "diary of the dead" is being made in this movie: maybe humanity isn't worth saving. this thought is underlined by examples of ignorant and egotistical people.some here say the movie is preachy - i think it is not preachy enough. you can't break the brainwashing of stupidity outlets like fox news with just showing facts. there should be texts saying "YOU are killing people right now". well, maybe not quite as harsh but still... the majority of the people need a metaphorical slap in the face to wake them up.which brings me to the way in which this movie has changed my thoughts (and behavior). while watching these idiots protest a wind farm because their precious "view" might be destroyed, something finally clicked. i always knew that the majority of people are like that but the thing is - there is no appealing to them. their comfort is more important than anything else. and because of that, humanity truly deserves to perish. i've always tried to help and my biggest goal in life was to somehow improve life for people - but i now realize that they don't deserve it.