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" ;)

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.

This is a charming documentary from Robert Cohen, a Canadian who writes and produces in Hollywood. The film consists of many, many, many interviews with mostly Canadians as well as footage of Cohen taking a roadtrip across the nation. It explores many topics including what it is to be 'Canadian nice', comedy, the cold, the country's love-hate relationship with the USA and why Canada doesn't suck. All in all, the film works well because Cohen was a nice host and there were so many famous Canadians who took part in the film. A gentle sense of humor and very enjoyable.

All this being said, I was shocked that the film had no captions of any sort. My deaf daughter could not watch the film but French- Canadians who do not speak English also cannot enjoy the movie--a very, very strange omission considering the subject matter!!