The Yes Men

The Yes Men (2003) is a documentary comedy you can watch online on iFILM, the kind that tries to change the world one prank at a time.

Activists Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum put up a spoof website for the World Trade Organization, and then the strangest thing happens: people mistake it for the real one. Soon the pair are invited onto TV and to business conferences as official WTO spokesmen, where they deliver straight-faced, deliberately monstrous corporate proposals and wait to see if anyone in the room flinches. Mostly, nobody does.

Directors Chris Smith, Sarah Price and Dan Ollman shape it as comedy, but underneath the gags sits a sharp argument about the cruelty baked into global trade. Michael Moore turns up too. It's a treat for fans of satire with real-world fallout. Stream The Yes Men (2003) online on iFILM.