This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Shell pays a PR company to paint them well.This is a group of social media hacks making money and selling their wares. If you don't believe look at the reviews. Most good reviews have many likes and come from fake accounts.This is a piece of junk. Like Zeitgeist, The Age of Stupid is a big work of montage to serve a religion in the hope of getting paid for preaching. It caters to a sectarian movement. Like the Christian or Muslim sects, the eco crowd I know prefers putting others through slavery and hunger, never themselves.So save your time and money and get a book from somebody who knows there is a climate change and not from some social media informed believes.Contact me with Questions, Comments or Suggestions ryitfork @ bitmail.ch

Sometimes powerful documentary on global warming, it has two key problem. First, it often comes close to feeling like it is overstating its case, presenting things in a very skewered, Michael Moore like way, but without the irony or humor. I'm a great believer in the science of global warming and the urgent need to do something, but- at least from what I've read - this film took some worst case scenarios and presented them as mainstream established fact.Also, for me, the linking device of Pete Postlewaite (an actor I love) as a man in the future looking back at film clips to see where we all went wrong is dorky at first, then dorky, preachy and dull, Any film that ends with "The end?" is a little cute for me. But the subject is important enough, that if this makes it accessible, say, for kids, that is a worthwhile thing.

In this film, set in the year 2055, society passed the tipping point of anthropogenic global warming (AGW). Runaway climate change and a cascading failure in our ability to meet the resource requirements of our society led to famine, global war and collapse.The archivist, a character sitting comfortably in his high-tech, climate controlled, 2055 office environment, with thousands of servers running full tilt, minority-report multi-touch displays, in something that looks like an oil-platform sunk into the floor of the arctic, looks down condescendingly at the audience while reviewing clips from present day society.People who don't buy into the theory of AGW will be insulted. People who do buy into the theory of AGW should be embarrassed to be lumped into the ignorant technofetishism and the portrayal of AGW activists as alarmist kooks who think the apocalypse is around the corner.If you want to stand on the street corner and scream that the end is neigh! then this is the movie for you!

I really enjoyed how this film approached the topic of climate change from many different angles. By comparing the lives of the different people featured in the film, one is able to see the variance that exists in how carbon use varies from one person to another. The Age of Stupid has a very interesting format. It is supposed to be a transmission that is recorded in the future as a sort of cautionary tale that was to be concealed in a time capsule that documents the the way that the human race eventually destroyed themselves as well as the rest of the world. It is a montage of actual footage from the news and other documentaries, sections that glimpse into the reality of real life characters documented, and commentary from the fictional character who is recording the "transmission."This was definitely a little out there in terms of format, but had a lot of important information that many people out in the world need to hear and take into consideration. The format may be a bit weird for some to warm up to, but if you can get past that, it is a touching documentary that inspires. In an age where a fairly large percentage of the population does not believe in man-influenced climate change, there's no shortage of stupidity. It's time for people to wake up and see if we can stop and maybe even reverse this damage we're doing to our home.