Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain... Begins to Die (2004)

Director:

Kevin Knoblock

Writers:

Lionel Chetwynd (co-written by)
Ted Steinberg (co-written by)

Release Date:

21 October 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary | War

Tagline:

The truth behind the lies of Fahrenheit 9/11

Plot:

This film attempts to correct the record when it comes to the left's attacks on President Bush, 9/11 and the war in Iraq and Kerry's 20-year tenure in the Senate. |

Plot Keywords:

Iraq | Colin Powell | Post September 11 2001 | Assault Rifle | Winston Churchill

Cast

Madeleine Albright	...	Herself (archive footage)
Ayad Allawi	...	Himself (archive footage)
Yasser Arafat	...	Himself (archive footage)
Frederic W. Barnes	...	Himself
Michael Barone	...	Himself
Osama Bin Laden	...	Himself (archive footage)
Tony Blair	...	Himself (archive footage)
Tom Brokaw	...	Himself (archive footage)
George W. Bush	...	Himself (archive footage)
Laura Bush	...	Herself (archive footage)
Dick Cavett	...	Himself (archive footage)
Chevy Chase	...	Himself (archive footage)
Dick Cheney	...	Himself (archive footage)
Jacques Chirac	...	Himself (archive footage)
Winston Churchill	...	Himself (archive footage)
Bill Clinton	...	Himself (archive footage)
Hillary Rodham Clinton	...	Herself (archive footage)
Barbara Comstock	...	Herself
John Edwards	...	Himself (archive footage)
Alice Fisher	...	Herself
Rudolph W. Giuliani	...	Himself (archive footage)
Al Gore	...	Himself (archive footage)
Tipper Gore	...	Herself (archive footage)
John Gotti Jr.	...	Himself (archive footage)
Katherine Harris	...	Herself (archive footage)
Orrin G. Hatch	...	Himself (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler	...	Himself (archive footage)
Saddam Hussein	...	Himself (archive footage)
Mansoor Ijaz	...	Himself
Peter Jennings	...	Himself (archive footage)
Hamid Karzai	...	Himself (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy	...	Himself (archive footage)
John Kerry	...	Himself (archive footage)
Ayatollah Khomeini	...	Himself (archive footage)
Charles Krauthammer	...	Himself
Jessica Lange	...	Herself (archive footage)
Patrick Leahy	...	Himself (archive footage)
Michael Ledeen	...	Himself
Joseph Lieberman	...	Himself (archive footage)
Chris Matthews	...	Himself (archive footage)
John McCain	...	Himself (archive footage)
Michael Medved	...	Himself
Michael Moore	...	Himself (archive footage)
Joshua Muravchik	...	Himself
Richard Nixon	...	Himself (archive footage)
John O'Neill	...	Himself
Natalie Portman	...	Herself (archive footage)
Colin Powell	...	Himself (archive footage)
Dan Rather	...	Himself (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan	...	Himself (archive footage)
Condoleezza Rice	...	Herself (archive footage)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt	...	Himself (archive footage)
Theodore Roosevelt	...	Himself (archive footage)
Bill Sammon	...	Himself
Al Sharpton	...	Himself (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin	...	Himself (archive footage)
Fred Dalton Thompson	...	Himself
Victoria Toensing	...	Herself

Also Known As:

C 41.11 (USA) (short title)

MPAA:

Rated R for brief language and violent images.

Runtime:

USA:72 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R

Company:

Adams County Productions

Trivia:

41.11°C (106°F) is the threshold temperature of a fever at which brain damage begins to occur.

It's decent.

I prefer George W. Bush to Kerry as a man and politician by leaps and bounds. In terms of ideology, Bush and Kerry are not nearly so far apart from one another as I am from both of them, in that I am a Libertarian. Because of this, I feel that I can offer a fairly objective review of this film (though I do not care to invest too much time into this).

Fahrenheit 9/11 is a mediocre movie that was overpraised by the liberal left in this country. I'm sure we're all aware of its deceptions and of the sheer largeness of its creator, Michael Moore. It isn't the worst film ever created (as some conservatives might have us believe), and it will make its small mark in cinematic history (though overshadowed by this year's Passion of the Christ in terms of controversy, I believe). Celsius 41.11 is an almost equally mediocre film, and though perhaps a little bit less fun it is certainly more factual.

Celsius 41.11 is basically just a concise and intelligent rebuttal of liberal attacks on George W. Bush. It does a decent job explaining why the so-called "hatred" of our current president is fundamentally irrational. This is all fine and good, but it is shown to us in about as average a presentation imaginable. Moore does not have special talent in making movies, but he at least has <i>some</i> talent. Knoblock pieced together what seem to be, largely, collections of streamed footage from CNN.com or something. The ending montage was a bit over-the-top as well.

I give it a 6 or 7 out of 10.

*shrug*

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