With the type of attention to detail and editing that Chaplin used throughout his career, this documentary could have been wonderful. But it's not. It's overly long, dwells too much on some things while ignoring others, and gives us an arms-length view. Shame. Better editing could make it wonderful.

This documentary would have been much more interesting had we been able to hear more interviews from people who knew him as opposed to this two hour long art school thesis. The narrator is so pretentious and the entire thing plays like one long episode of some leftist drivel mocked in Portlandia. A missed opportunity.

If you enjoy being spoken at exactly like a school teacher reading a story book to a group of 5-year olds, then this is for you. Truly the worst voice over narration I have ever heard, and that is without knowing anything in advance about who the narrator was. Cloying, pretentious, self-conscious, everything that acting isn't, the most un-natural, one would really say, fake speech I have heard on film. Nobody there, just enjoying listening to herself.

WATCH THE FILM WITH SUBTITLES ONLY AND NO SOUND AND YOU WILL BE FINE.