Why make a documentary about how a family tries to live emissions-free for a year, but not give you the results on screen? The theory is that the team didn't want to give out spoilers from the coming book, therefore, this is pretty dull stuff. Home movies, basically. The most action-ridden moment is when the family tries and fails to build an Nigerian pot fridge, which was as interesting or arousing as watching three butchers beating on a piece of meat in an endlessly repetitive way against a sterile background.
It was so mind-numbingly dull, after the first hour all I wanted to do was pull my own head off. I tried to find something to grab on to and sit to the end. Finally I thought of something that needed to be seen to in the bathdroom. I came back, got some coffee, and began wandering in and out of the lobby for a while. Then I walked out of the theater.
Any movie is boring if it doesn't involve you in the characters and the story. Sometimes that's not the filmmaker's fault. Or, one man's poison is another man's poison. It's important to remember boring / bad movies so that you DON't watch them again.
By the way, of course the family's efforts were more than undone by all the energy expended to make this film, not to mention all the people who further defiled the ozone by going to see it in theaters. At least I didn't notice any bikes in the parking lot when I saw it.. Oh, and they'll be printing a book soon, too, as well.
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