There's No Place Like Utopia
There's No Place Like Utopia
| 18 July 2014 (USA)
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Why did Dorothy follow the yellow brick road? Film maker Joel Gilbert journeys across America to find out what's at the end of the Progressive rainbow - Utopia or something far worse? From the ruins of Detroit to the slums of Chicago's South Side, and from Denver's illegal immigration invasion to Newark's urban removal project, Gilbert pulls back the curtain. He confronts Progressives on his quest, and takes us deep into their political fantasy of paradise on earth. There's No Place Like Utopia is a humorous and horrifying exploration of Progressivism, amnesty for illegals, race relations, Islam in America, political correctness, and Barack Obama himself, who promises to "remake the world as it should be." But is Utopia a real destination for America? Or, does the true path to happiness still remain faith, family, and hard work - back home in Kansas?

Reviews
Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!
MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant
Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
CF The film attempts to make an analogy between Obama and the wizard in the Wizard of Oz. It's mostly short clips of interviews with random people on the street, speeches of liberal/progressive leaders made to sound evil, interviews with old white guys who spew right-wing propaganda, and some lousy animation.Otherwise, this is just a grossly inaccurate portrayal of liberals/progressives. The point of the film is to equate Obama with leaders who used Marxist/Lenninist ideas to justify building oppressive totalitarian regimes. But, the film fails to note that there is a huge difference between progressive ideas in the USA and full-blown communism of the sort that some interviewed in the film suggest.Take one example early in the film. Jerome Corsi appears to naively think that progressives are advocating that *all* of the money one makes from a hard days work just goes to someone else. While the incentive to work hard may disappear if this were the case, society also suffers greatly when the lower and middle-class work hard for little pay and no health insurance - just so rich folks can get far richer. If those who are well off don't want to help pay for better public education, how can those who are poor realize the American dream? If uneducated can't get a good job because the minimum wage is too low, why work? Why not rob, steal, or sell drugs instead? Should we then blame people for being criminals and lock them up forever? Too little *or* too much income inequality can lead to serious problems in society. Progressives recognize that income inequality is too extreme in the USA and is continuing to get worse, and a more equitable society would help us all be better off. Taxes are not that high in countries that have figured this out and that provide good social services (e.g., just Google "tax rate in France" and you'll see the gross exaggeration in the film) - not so that people can become dependent, but so that they can have more opportunities, get back on their feet when they fall on hard times, not lose their home or go bankrupt when a medical emergency happens. Since when is the idea about caring about and helping your fellow human being a bad thing?The film unfortunately just goes on spreading misinformation and right- wing conspiracy theories. The only interesting thing I found about the film were ordinary people's perceptions of how they thought Obama's policies would affect them and whether they (wrongly or not) thought he could really do much to turn things around in just the few years of his presidency before this film was published.
arden-6 I really didn't get the opening and thought where is the movie going, but once the pace picked up what a great eye-opening expose on liberalism/progressivism/communism. I really enjoyed Joel's sarcasm and humor and antics. My 3 takeaways 1. this is a 100 yr slow attack on America 2. The destruction and devastation of our big cities by Liberals as only pictures can tell. 3. Lie after lie that the left tells to slowly drag us down into despotism and autocracy, and the useful idiots they use to accomplish the goal. I highly recommend any thinking voter in America view this film before voting in 2016.
resborzage A little over the top and repetitive (the Wizard of Oz thing), but still plenty factual and for the most part interesting and well paced. The interviews are amusing and varied while the backgrounds (the various places visited) decisively back up the filmmaker's contention that liberalism and the modern day democratic party are the current form of the bubonic plague. The only way the liberals/socialists/communists can answer this (see the two idiot reviews)is by spewing their standard straw man crap - "It's racist!" etc. It isn't racist at all, by the way. Detroit alone pretty much says it all - the democratic party gold-standard city. Commie utopias are responsible for the murder of millions and millions, and the Democratic party is just the next, or should I say current, manifestation.
chrisgrant-89743 This movie is filled with 2nd rate animation, political demagoguery, and racism. The points trying to be made here are that Barack Obama is a charlatan just like the Wizard of Oz, and Democrats are evil. There were no facts, statistics, or any other metrics mentioned throughout the narrative in order to objectify these accusations. Instead, we are barraged with images of Obama as the great Oz juxtaposed with totalitarian leaders such as Stalin, Lenin, and Chairman Mao laced between sub-par animation and senseless interviews with random people found on the streets. I began to wonder if the people being interviewed were paid off to say what the producer wanted them to say, as most of them all came back around to the Wizard of Oz analogy. Was that just a coincidence? Maybe, but I'm more apt to believe that the questions being asked were leading.