Article: Gore's environmental lecture lacks flash but not substance: `AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH'(star)(star) 1/2.

Byline: Michael Phillips

Jun. 2--Equal parts filmed lecture, campaign-style documentary and greenhouse-gas disaster film, "An Inconvenient Truth" gussies up Al Gore's well-traveled multimedia presentation on global warming just enough to justify itself in front of a camera. Nonetheless the film's context and talking points are more interesting than the film itself, which settles for an earnest (though rarely dull) nudge in its chosen direction: PowerPoint cinema. Like most films only more so, this one will be processed differently by different voters. To many Republicans, the former vice president and eternal near-president of 2000 will always be Chicken ...

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