Chris Mooney is a freelance writer and the author of two books, 
My review of Randy Olson's Sizzle just went up at Science Progress. Wonderful, excellent, hilarious, profound: These are some of the things that I would say about this movie. In the review I even note that Sizzle "may be the funniest global warming movie ever made (unless you count The Day After Tomorrow, which didn't mean to be)."
Here's an excerpt:
At the outset of Sizzle...Olson-the-mockumentary-character participates in a scene that will be all too familiar for people trying to promote science (or anything else) in Hollywood: He meets with studio executives to try to get funding for his global warming documentary, and they won't give him the time of day. Yet even without such big-time support, Olson-in-real-life has managed to produce a wonderful film, a remarkable achievement. In light of this, it would be a true shame if scientists, science bloggers, and science pundits make the same mistakes as the literal-minded scientist-documentarian portrayed in this film, and fail to realize what Olson (in real life) has accomplished.
You can read the full review here.
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It seems worth pointing out that the only people who seem to have really positive reviews are those that already share his message (the Intersection folks) and his co-blogger at Shifting Baselines. The rest settle on mediocre or outright bad. Interesting....
Posted by: Cameron | July 15, 2008 2:20 PM
Cameron,
Look more broadly to sources like Huffington Post or Pure Pedantry and you'll see that many have enjoyed the film.
Posted by: Sheril R. Kirshenbaum | July 15, 2008 3:29 PM
Looking more broadly at the Sciblogs (where most of the reviews have come from) and my point stands.
Posted by: Cameron | July 15, 2008 3:47 PM
Greg Laden liked it.
Posted by: Jim Lippard | July 15, 2008 5:39 PM
I quite liked it.
Thought it dragged a bit in the middle, might improve on final edit.
Style reminiscent of Steve Carell doing The Office - which is a complement.
Posted by: Steinn Sigurdsson | July 15, 2008 10:40 PM