The Emperor's New Clothes

"If you loathe Russell Brand, then it’s hardly rocket science that you should avoid The Emperor’s New Clothes, a doco in the vein of Michael Moore that sees him take on the social inequities of free market capitalism and barely regulated finance. Others may be pleasantly surprised that his polemical tendencies are restrained in a pic that not only outlines the morally bankrupt economic policies of the UK (and lamely parroted in our country), but shows his knack for relating to the man in the street."

"Russell Brand’s a man of many parts. Pardon us if we only part-swallow his latest..."

"A film which, on more than a few occasions, is surprisingly thought-provoking."

"A funny, boisterous attack on the dishonesty and mediocrity of Britain's new plutocrat classes and the politicians who created them..."

"The freshest and most urgent documentary yet to challenge the widening chasm between the 1% and the rest of us."

"A funnier-than-usual enumeration of the reasons we should eat the rich (or at least tax them like crazy)."