Agrega una trama en tu idiomaWhat does it actually mean to be Canadian? This humorous documentary, featuring interviews with a who's-who of famous media related Canadians, hopes to find the answer.What does it actually mean to be Canadian? This humorous documentary, featuring interviews with a who's-who of famous media related Canadians, hopes to find the answer.What does it actually mean to be Canadian? This humorous documentary, featuring interviews with a who's-who of famous media related Canadians, hopes to find the answer.
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You wanted to make this movie to shatter Canadian stereotypes? Then claim to be in Ottawa on June 24th and it's snowing!!! I looked it up. Has never snowed on that day. Average high 25.2 Celsius. 78.3 for you Americans.
So misleading and adding to the stereotype.
I actually can't say much more about the documentary as I actually turned it off the write this review.
Now I'm just filling in space because apparently you can't just make it short and sweet. Only 131 characters to go.
Hope you doing something fun and or different tomorrow. Always makes for an interesting day. Thanks for reading. Peace out.
So misleading and adding to the stereotype.
I actually can't say much more about the documentary as I actually turned it off the write this review.
Now I'm just filling in space because apparently you can't just make it short and sweet. Only 131 characters to go.
Hope you doing something fun and or different tomorrow. Always makes for an interesting day. Thanks for reading. Peace out.
I began this movie with high hopes. I mean, with all of those comedians, how could it miss, right? Although it was sometimes moderately funny in a very predictable manner, it really fell short of tapping into what it truly means to be Canadian and what makes Canada so special. I would say that if you are looking for a movie chock full of antiquated stereotypes told from people who do not live in Canada or have not lived in Canada for years, this is the movie for you. Put another way, if the year was 1982, this movie would be perfect. Aside from a few token minorities, this movie is as white as it gets and totally NOT what being Canadian is all about. Where was the depiction of our awesome multicultural, diverse nation? So disappointing.
The premise:
Robert Cohen sets out to learn more about his country of Canada and to show the world a bit about who we are by filming as he travels from one coast to the other on a whirlwind tour.
A fine idea if you actually took the time to go to every province and territory! He skips PEI, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, the ENTIRE NORTH, and for the provinces he does visit, I didn't learn a thing. I'm a proud Canadian and yes I too am irritated and dismayed by those moments we have all had with (ignorant) people from other continents who seem to think Canada looks like the area by the wall in Game of Thrones or like the Americans (inexcusably ignorant since they're our neighbours!) who ask us stupid stuff like the woman in the laundromat I met just across the US/Canada border on a camping trip once who found out I was from Canada and asked me "Do you hunt?" Me: "No, definitely not." Her looking shocked/confused: "Well how do you get your meat???" Me, resisting an eye roll:"If I ate meat, I would just go to Safeway or somewhere." Her, now really surprised, "Wow, y'all have supermarkets up there!" Me: ..... Polite smile.... "Yeah, but just 2."
Of course in touristy shops there are the usual culprits: beavers, moose, totem poles, Mounties, maple syrup & plaid fleece, but surely a movie that's supposed to show a wider view of our multicultural country that's more "mosaic" than "melting pot" should work a little harder not to reinforce some of the stereotypes he's supposed to dispel (and yes, it could be done through comedy!) ZERO mention of the First Nations! NOTHING about our urban culture or musicians, artists, athletes, scientists, dancers (Royal Wpg. Ballet, Cirque du Soleil, or Spandy Andy :D) And our history didn't start with Confederation.
Okay, on occasion, there's snow in May in some parts of the country but not in Ottawa in June!
True, he's right that we do seem to have a lot of comedians and it was great to see some of them (mostly why I kept watching until the end) and I did like the theories presented about why Canadian humour is unique and what makes us funny.
Another part when he talks about what is typical Canadian food he seems to disbelieve that the answer truly is a wonderful mixture of many flavours. Poutine is the pat answer for what's a typical dish since you now find it almost anywhere in Canada in some form (Merci, Quebec!) but even in smaller cities you can often find amazing curries, weird and wonderful fusions of several types of cuisine, or great hearty home-cooked meals served in humble locations that feature foods that rival the quality from the country they originated from. We Canadians like our food!
Ok, to be fair there are a couple of funny moments, some of the comments were a bit deeper (Geddy Lee & Kim Campbell) and I wanted to like this movie, I wanted to laugh (maybe self-deprecatingly!) but I was more irritated and indignant afterwards just like some of the other reviewers from Canada.
To sum it up if someone was to determine what ice cream flavour represents Canada based upon this film they would likely choose vanilla and that is probably what they'd have said BEFORE watching it too.
A fine idea if you actually took the time to go to every province and territory! He skips PEI, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, the ENTIRE NORTH, and for the provinces he does visit, I didn't learn a thing. I'm a proud Canadian and yes I too am irritated and dismayed by those moments we have all had with (ignorant) people from other continents who seem to think Canada looks like the area by the wall in Game of Thrones or like the Americans (inexcusably ignorant since they're our neighbours!) who ask us stupid stuff like the woman in the laundromat I met just across the US/Canada border on a camping trip once who found out I was from Canada and asked me "Do you hunt?" Me: "No, definitely not." Her looking shocked/confused: "Well how do you get your meat???" Me, resisting an eye roll:"If I ate meat, I would just go to Safeway or somewhere." Her, now really surprised, "Wow, y'all have supermarkets up there!" Me: ..... Polite smile.... "Yeah, but just 2."
Of course in touristy shops there are the usual culprits: beavers, moose, totem poles, Mounties, maple syrup & plaid fleece, but surely a movie that's supposed to show a wider view of our multicultural country that's more "mosaic" than "melting pot" should work a little harder not to reinforce some of the stereotypes he's supposed to dispel (and yes, it could be done through comedy!) ZERO mention of the First Nations! NOTHING about our urban culture or musicians, artists, athletes, scientists, dancers (Royal Wpg. Ballet, Cirque du Soleil, or Spandy Andy :D) And our history didn't start with Confederation.
Okay, on occasion, there's snow in May in some parts of the country but not in Ottawa in June!
True, he's right that we do seem to have a lot of comedians and it was great to see some of them (mostly why I kept watching until the end) and I did like the theories presented about why Canadian humour is unique and what makes us funny.
Another part when he talks about what is typical Canadian food he seems to disbelieve that the answer truly is a wonderful mixture of many flavours. Poutine is the pat answer for what's a typical dish since you now find it almost anywhere in Canada in some form (Merci, Quebec!) but even in smaller cities you can often find amazing curries, weird and wonderful fusions of several types of cuisine, or great hearty home-cooked meals served in humble locations that feature foods that rival the quality from the country they originated from. We Canadians like our food!
Ok, to be fair there are a couple of funny moments, some of the comments were a bit deeper (Geddy Lee & Kim Campbell) and I wanted to like this movie, I wanted to laugh (maybe self-deprecatingly!) but I was more irritated and indignant afterwards just like some of the other reviewers from Canada.
To sum it up if someone was to determine what ice cream flavour represents Canada based upon this film they would likely choose vanilla and that is probably what they'd have said BEFORE watching it too.
I had a love-hate relationship with this documentary, much like I did during the Canadian winters I experienced while living there.
As an Australian who lived there for almost 2 years, I often straddled that line between being 'tourist' and 'local' - many of the questions posed in this documentary were things I asked myself and Canadians during my time there!
It's basically a bunch of segments (questions) about Canadian culture and its identity, strung over a loose travelogue. Some segments were hilarious and a lot better than others - I was definitely laughing out loud, nodding my head in agreement and generally thought it captured Canadians quite well.
But the presenter, Robert Cohen really lacks charisma and comes across super annoying and self-indulgent. Part of me wishes the travelogue aspect of it (cross-Canada road trip) had been more involved. But the other part of me was just grateful for the film to end when stuff begins happening like Cohen driving to his former school to swear at it - what the hell?
The highlight was the $18 million maple syrup heist - HELLO MOST CANADIAN CRIME EVER!? As well as the often hilarious insights and anecdotes by the Canadian celebrities and identities.
After a while, each province just turned into "I still don't have an answer".. And he just seemed really bummed out at the end of it, before suddenly becoming proud of Canada. Sticking around was worth it for the "hippip hurray" though.
If others don't happen to agree with my review, "I'm really sorry, eh" ;)
As an Australian who lived there for almost 2 years, I often straddled that line between being 'tourist' and 'local' - many of the questions posed in this documentary were things I asked myself and Canadians during my time there!
It's basically a bunch of segments (questions) about Canadian culture and its identity, strung over a loose travelogue. Some segments were hilarious and a lot better than others - I was definitely laughing out loud, nodding my head in agreement and generally thought it captured Canadians quite well.
But the presenter, Robert Cohen really lacks charisma and comes across super annoying and self-indulgent. Part of me wishes the travelogue aspect of it (cross-Canada road trip) had been more involved. But the other part of me was just grateful for the film to end when stuff begins happening like Cohen driving to his former school to swear at it - what the hell?
The highlight was the $18 million maple syrup heist - HELLO MOST CANADIAN CRIME EVER!? As well as the often hilarious insights and anecdotes by the Canadian celebrities and identities.
After a while, each province just turned into "I still don't have an answer".. And he just seemed really bummed out at the end of it, before suddenly becoming proud of Canada. Sticking around was worth it for the "hippip hurray" though.
If others don't happen to agree with my review, "I'm really sorry, eh" ;)
This "documentary" is a parade of inferiority complexes that belong to the idiosyncrasies of comedians that drive them to do comedy and not to Canadians. It was deprecating to the point of absurdity, made no sincere attempts to answer any of it's questions and didn't dare to tread near a critical answer except by accident when a few of our more philosophically minded celebrities happened upon an thoughtful answer. I was embarrassed and angered to have watched this, it felt like a mean-spirited American mockumentary about Canada.
It completely elided our native population, was wildly dismissive of our French population, and, frankly, displayed Alberta's particular brand of narcissism.
Again, I was embarrassed to have watched this episode of One Guy Musing About His Personal Inadequacies and flabbergasted that he dared to present it as representing an entire country. Literally, shame on Mr. Cohen for this lazy pastiche of clichés presented in exaggerations of their worst framing.
It completely elided our native population, was wildly dismissive of our French population, and, frankly, displayed Alberta's particular brand of narcissism.
Again, I was embarrassed to have watched this episode of One Guy Musing About His Personal Inadequacies and flabbergasted that he dared to present it as representing an entire country. Literally, shame on Mr. Cohen for this lazy pastiche of clichés presented in exaggerations of their worst framing.
¿Sabías que…?
- TriviaMany of the same actors - Eugene Levy, Howie Mandel, William Shatner, Morley Safer, Martin Short, Rich Little, Alan Thicke - appear in a 1985 documentary called The Canadian Conspiracy (1986) about Canada taking over America using Canadian culture.
- ErroresWhen the crew enters Ottawa, it is apparently 6 days before July 1st. They are seen skating on the canal and tubing down a snow covered hill. There is no way that the canal would be frozen and a hill would be covered in snow this time of year. This shows that the visit to Ottawa must have been during the winter and not during this so called road trip that the film makers make us believe they are on.
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Conan O'Brien: It's this giant piece of white chocolate that sits on top of America.
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