Instapundit notes the arrival of Michael Wilson’s documentary on Michael Moore, calling it “very good.”

We got our copy in the mail yesterday and watched it (I thought this was old news by now, with the release date being Nov. 1, but apparently the pre-ordered copies are just now getting out). While the film is good, and important, I feel a little disappointed with it overall — mostly because the internet and FahrenHYPE 911 took care of most of the fact-checking details on Moore’s films (see bowlingfortruth, for one).

What Wilson is able to do with this film, though, is show how easy it is to be like Moore, to become your enemy the instant you preach against him, and how a “documentary” can fall from grace with convienient, untruthful editing, or by going into the subject with the end in mind, rather than letting the facts change the story along the way.

Wilson’s film also caused me to think about Moore’s craft and realize that all the clever tricks and distortions in his films are deliberate, and that’s what makes Moore the scumbag that he is — not his politics or his ideas, but his willingness to lie to his audience, and even himself. All the crap in his movies — those aren’t just mistakes, or just ideas I don’t agree with — they are deliberate lies. So, does that mean Michael Moore hates America? The answer to that, Wilson says, you’ll have to decide for yourself.

This film does a good job at launching the subject and opening the lines of communication, trying to bridge the divide between right and left, and taking a look at just what a documentary is. It’s also got plenty of humor along the way — how could it not, with Penn Jillette as one of its main stars? It also features interviews with people who appeared in Moore’s films, Dinesh D’Souza, J.C. Watts, David Horowitz, Albert Maysles and others.

My favorite part — a deleted scene in the extras where Wilson interviews a group of soldiers back from Iraq. After watching this film, I am more hopeful about the direction this country is headed, about our ability to talk across the 50/50 divide, and about the prospect of leaving the bile of Michael Moore behind as we celebrate the arrival of a new year.

“Very good?” Well… on second thought, maybe it is. Maybe I’m just upset that it took nearly two months to arrive.

By the way, it got two thumbs up.