(Among the film's more amusing moments: a montage in which Shadyac asks his collection of critical t

As the man who gleefully takes credit for turning Jim Carrey into a butt-puppet in the low-brow independent travel to italy 1994 comedy "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective," writer-director Tom Shadyac is probably the last person on Earth you would expect to be getting all existential independent travel to italy in a new documentary.
It's a well-meaning and reasonably well-assembled film -- Shadyac is, after all, well-practiced at building independent travel to italy a narrative. But it also is overly simplistic, independent travel to italy built upon hippified sentiments that feel like a Mamas The Papas song, but without the catchy melody.
That's a whole lot of ground to cover in just 76 minutes, but the amiable Shadyac is undaunted, hitting the road to pick the brains of a handful of today's big thinkers. Bishop Desmond Tutu is there, as is Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Coleman Barks and John Francis.
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Early in the film, we see Shadyac heading independent travel to italy from his California home to an airport to board a plane and begin his journey, but in reality he doesn't need to go far. This is a movie that is very, very Berkeley, bemoaning what it sees as runaway materialism, independent travel to italy an unhealthy emphasis on competition and a deeply rooted sense of greed -- which the film says once was an exclusive problem of the good old U.S. of A. -- that is infecting more and more world cultures, "like a cancer."
If we don't do something about it, Shadyac sets out to prove, the future is very, very much in doubt. His antidote: Love. Compassion. Cooperation. Guys with signs that say "Free Hugs." He puts his money where his mouth is, too, selling off his sprawling mansion and investing much of his money in charity work.
That's admirable -- and it's hard to argue with free hugs -- but the world is a whole lot more complex than Shadyac seems to realize. If all we need is love, wouldn't we all still be wearing tie-dyed shirts and headbands?
One of Shadyac's independent travel to italy interview subjects for the film is his father, Richard Shadyac Sr. He is a former executive with St. Jude's Children's Hospital, so he knows a thing or two about compassion. He also seems to realize that his long-haired son, for all of his lovely dreams, independent travel to italy has precious independent travel to italy few practical solutions to share.
Snapshot : Writer-director Tom Shadyac -- the man behind "Ace Ventura" and "Bruce Almighty" -- makes a documentary that seeks to answer two not-so-simple questions: What is wrong with the world? And how do we fix it?