Time writer Karen Tumulty lapses into one of those fawning paragraphs after describing Hugh Jackman telling Al Gore at Cannes that he was looking forward to the Gore slide-show movie:

“Then again, Gore’s new movie has someing of a mutant-action-hero plotline of its own. It’s the tale of a scorned, washed-up politician transformed into a laptop-wielding ninja whose PowerPoint could rescue the planet from the forces of greed and indifference.”