An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power Just Isn't All That Compelling

We've had a lot of sequels this summer, many of them to films that haven't had a sequel in a little while. It's been six years since the last Pirates Of The Caribbean movie for instance while nine years have passed since our last Mummy movie and it's been a whole two decades since the last proper Alien movie. All that considered, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power, while being a small-in-scale documentary, feels right at home with these bigger blockbuster follow-up titles since it too is also a successor to a movie from quite a few years ago (the original Inconvenient Truth was released in 2006). Also something it shares with many other blockbuster sequels from this past summer; it ain't as good as its predecessor.

It's Hard Not To Get Heated Up Over Environmental Dangers Thanks To An Inconvenient Truth

It's always fascinating to go back and watch movies made in a specific political climate and see if they both hold up as movies and examine them as artifacts of the era in which they were made. When I watched Sidney Lumet's Network for the first time last month, that was the exact experience I went through as the film very much served as an encapsulation of 1970's politics while also resonating on its own timeless merits. In the first decade of the 21st century, plenty of pieces of pop culture emerged critical of the George W. Bush administration, one of which was Al Gore's 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, a film that does make reference to real world political events occurring in the W. Bush era, but is mostly concentrated on the timeless horrors of global warming.