Curiously, no one wants this kind of detailed autobiographical introduction to a review of Barbershop 2.

So what The Duke will tell you is that he is something of a fan of this Michael Moore chancer, and found his two previous feature documentaries to be highly entertaining, thought-provoking works, although I have yet to see Canadian Bacon, what took a fictional approach to the camera-pointing, by way of being a comedy-drama.

I lean to the left, to which end I have been a member of various political parties, until I had to leave on account of fucked-up personal shenanigans that some of you fine folks will know about, and some won't.

So there you go. Now, The Duke takes the unprecedented step of discussing Fahrenheit 9/11 as a product of popular motherfucking culture.

First off, it's a better film than Bowling For Columbine, and is probably just as good as Roger And Me. It shares the style of the opening ten minutes of the latter, and the lack of direction in the second half that so blighted the former.

Not that there's any jaunts around Canada to make a point about something he forgets about ten minutes later, it's just that the focus seems to get awful blurred now and again, with the ever-swelling ambition threatening to derail the whole damn thing.

Michael wants to tell you about the president is a fool, but he also wants to tell you about the war is a shambles, and also some stuff about unemployment, and still find time for a few satirical set-pieces, even though, as a whole, it's much less of a film about "Michael Moore" than the previous efforts. Indeed, barring a couple seconds of archive footage, Moore doesn't even show up till 40 minutes into the thing.

Basically, nothing F*9/11 concerns itself with will be any great surprise to anyone who read the first few chapters of Stupid White Men or Dude, Where's My Country? Moore presents to us a portrait of George W Bush as a bumbling cipher, a man who has very little say on anything of any import, being merely the plaything for any number of corporate enterprises he is affiliated with. Moore's vision of George W Bush is as a man who has no idea of the enormity of his decisions, a man who sees no further than the numbers flashing across the stock-market reports on CNN.