Bill Nye: Science Guy

There's now an urgency, a sense that we are in peril because fundamental truths about how the world works are being ignored and ridiculed.

"Bill Nye: Science Guy" is a surprisingly kaleidoscopic portrait of someone we thought we already knew.

Channeling Nye's own gift for making complex ideas simple and clear, the filmmakers edit together these various aspects of Nye's life with deceptive ease, drawing on interviews and archival material and following him throughout his hectic schedule.

Biggest takeaway? Nye's previous mission of making science accessible to children is nothing compared to the challenge in convincing adults of the perils of climate change.

Bow-tied brainiac Bill Nye gets a sympathetic treatment from admiring filmmakers in this non-shocking doc.

"Bill Nye: Science Guy" offers an absorbing and entertaining portrait, of both the science evangelist and the guy behind him.

The central question of how does one become a "scientific statesman" in our current media environment, which is entertainment-driven and filled with misinformation and even disdain for science, is an intriguing one.

As the movie explores Nye's family history, we do see just how intertwined the threads of thinking and emotion can be.

... what the documentary Bill Nye: Science Guy achieves, as the best documentaries do, is peer behind the curtain of illusion and try to find some kind of truth.

The gloves come off in Bill Nye: Science Guy...

This documentary gets the best of both worlds, building a personal story of the likable, trustworthy Nye, as well as offering a serious, hopeful love letter to science itself.

Yes, it's deeply pleasurable to watch Nye school conservative blowhards who make their living promoting lies, but I wanted Alvarado and Sussberg to explore their subject as thoroughly as he explores the world around him.