Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Ortiz Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

proud_luddite Picking up from the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" (2006), Al Gore continues his crusade against global warming.Like the original film, Gore uses convincing data to explain his case, only occasionally getting too technical for the average non-science-whiz viewer. This sequel uses clips of the original in which predictions were made (and immediately dismissed by climate change deniers) and later proven to be true. The folks behind this film show diplomacy as they do not directly use the phrase "I told you so" even though they have every right to."An Inconvenient Sequel" showed promise by beginning with brief audio clips of naysayers believing Gore's mission to be a false one. It would have benefited by continuing with other viewpoints throughout the film but it concentrates too much on Gore alone. The restriction of one note, even if it is a good one as it is here, limits the impact.Similarly, some sequences don't gel well with each other overall and the movie comes off as choppy. Some of them went too far with sentimental, cheesy music during moments of victory and hope.Despite the flaws, "An Inconvenient Sequel" is still a fine film mainly because of its relevance and the solid character of Al Gore. Like its predecessor, it can cause the viewer despair at the world's situation but it is also balanced with hope for the good changes that are turning things around. The most unexpected moment of hope is when Gore meets a small-town super-conservative mayor in Republican Texas: Dale Ross of the town of Georgetown. The two men have a wonderful rapport because - are you ready? - the mayor believes in Gore's cause and implements similar policies for his town, stating that renewable energy is as good for the bottom line as it is for the environment. (Hopefully, this delightful man will have greater influence in his party in the very near future.)"An Inconvenient Sequel" provides hope in two ways. The obvious one is in the accelerating movement of positive changes going against the negative ones on the issue of climate change. Yet, it also gives a revival to something else that is deteriorating: an expression of liberalism with a solid heart and mind - something that has made this philosophy so appealing for decades. These days, there are many elements of liberalism that have become narrow-minded, mean-spirited, self-serving, hypocritical, and in some cases, violent - in other words, all the traits they accuse their opponents of having. May this movie contribute to the return of a healthy planet and a healthy liberalism.

durganesha Ok, that is wishful thinking...but what a beautiful thought! President Gore! Yes!!! You know, I saw the last movie and I took notice. It seemed like we had made strides in the direction of doing justice to our stewardship of this great planet. Tears came to my eyes when I saw we had reached an accord in Paris. What a moment! How India was helped to take care of Her people and our Planet too! Wow! And then comes the part where the U.S. has stepped out of this accord?! How could anybody look at this and be concerned how great a film it is? That is not the point. The message, and this documentary, has been made with clarity, accuracy, honesty...what else do people need to see? People, we must take this seriously! This is not about this movie, it is about our children having a beautiful home. This beautiful Earth, our home! So, if you fell asleep, please wake your bootie up!

andreineculau Like many other reviews, I also felt compelled to write a review because of all the one-star flooding of reviews that make no sense - this one was not better than The Inconvenient Truth, thus 1-star; this one was about Gore, thus 1-star; etc.Topic-wise, the climate crisis is real, and it's the worst crisis humanity has to deal with in modern times. The math is simple: there is no winning side in this crisis. Despite this, narrow-minded money-driven individuals and groups of individuals around the world are pushing for propaganda about how this is not real, or if it's real then it's not man-made, or if it's real and man-made then it's too big of a phenomena to stop, and even if we could stop it or slow it down the developing world needs couldn't care because they need 150y to catch up to where US is today (zero logic).Filming-wise, this documentary keeps you connected through out. There's no repetition, there's no reiteration from The Inconvenient Truth, there's no "listen to me or we will all die", there's no "we will all die" as there are lots of hopeful interventions, having similarities with Hans Rosling's talks.For Canadians, there's even a top-notch reply from their Justin Trudeau. I'm not talking about him as the Canadian prime-minister in Canada, but as the Canadian prime-minister in the world's eyes --- you can count on one hand the number of state politicians that will reply in a split second to "thank you for the change you're bringing about" with "it's the Canadians, not me, but thank you".

Eye_MD_B I was told to "have fun!" at the cinema and thought to myself: "hardly" because of that serious and guilt-inflicting-matter, but I was so wrong:Al Gore showed us how important it is for us to think globally as sisters and brothers and demonstrated the devastating stupidity of narrow minded fanatics but mostly the heart-warming connection between world-peace, intercontinental and bipartisan love and support .When I came out of this movie I wasn't as frustrated or guilt-ridden as before, neither was I inclined to lean back in despair or frustration anymore; but I was filled with tears of an re-opened heart, and freshly inspired to share my love for the planet and humankind.So I ask everyone who blindly did vote this documentary down not to simply bury their heads in the sand but to face and watch it, and thereafter cast an honest fresh vote. You will not regret it, because this documentary will make you feel better - not worse!EDIT: After having seen a documentary on how the fossil-fuel-lobby divides the population by buying opinions of scientists, I realised that the 2/3rds who downvoted positive reviews such as mine, are not people who scream their guilt-conscience into the ground, but simple shills and robots designed to distort that opinion. So if you feel that you are "one of the few" who have a sensible opinion and see that there is something dead wrong - don't despair, because you are in the majority against a bunch of programmed computers which are designed to falsify the public opinion.- -Ah, and one afterthought: With that publicity Al Gore could run for the Green-Party as president - and even though he wouldn't win, he could kick-start a third party into the race so high that it could get a discussion of the faulty non-democratic US-2-party-system started. In the long run he therewith could probably change the political landscape deeper than he ever would have done as president.