Review of Mansome (2012) by Jim H — 13 May 2013

Morgan Spurlock, Will Arnett, and Jason Bateman explore men's grooming and its relationship to masculinity.

What Mansome could be is an examination of masculinity in modern day pop culture, post-feminist movement. In fact, it could be the documentary version of all the strengths of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. But instead its reliance on extreme reactions to male hair and its profile of a modern-day fop do little to deliver any salient cultural criticism. What emerges are the outliers of our society -- a man with a massive beard and a man who spends more time preening than most birds -- and I finished the film learning nothing new about the macrocosm and learning only dismissible factoids about the microcosm.

Overall, Mansome, considering its wealth of talent, doesn't live up to its potential.