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Rating:  - George Carlin and many other famous faces in rare form!
In this review, I just want to briefly point out what appears to be a very amusing anomaly in the repertoire of George Carlin... HE ISN'T SWEARING/CURSING!!! in every stand-up routine of his that I've seen, he spouts foul language in every other sentence. his performance here is extra good just because of his eerie lack of profanity alone, let alone all of the other marvelous gems, especially when you take into consideration that most of the other characters are swearing like proverbial sailors!
Rating:  - What a Dud!
Forget about what your read from people giving this a one star effort because they say its "offensive" or "anti-religious", its a one star effort because we have a great cast here that is wasted on what is clearly Kevin Smith's worst movie. As I watched the first half-hour, I was waiting for something to be funny, and it just wasn't. I was felt like I was wasting my time, so I finally hit the stop button, as I couldnt bear to watch another minute of this snooze-fest. Believe me when I tell you that I find everything amusing, hell I even bust out laughing when watching Spongebob Squarepants. If you are a fan of Kevin Smiths films, please stay away from this one. Go into your collection and watch Mallrats on Clerks again.
Rating:  - sacrilegious and funny
I must say that is one of the best movies I've ever seen; it's so sacrilegious and funny that it's impossible not to enjoy it. A must have in your collection.
Rating: - Existence for dummies....
I think Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic for the Chicago Reader, said it the best. This is a film about spirituality aimed at 11 year olds. I found the film extraordinarily simplistic, boring, and obnoxious. The charcters are really annoying, and the performances are quite bad (with Jason Lee coming across the worst as a devil like dude). Affleck and Damon's characters end up being another variation on the know it all, smug, Gen X type who thinks he has all the answers, and enjoys pointing out everyone else's faults. This was supposed to be Smith's "profound" film, but he's way out of his depth here. Gen X filmmakers like Smith are not known for tackling big subjects, and when Kevin tries to tackle the heavy questions of existence here, he fails miserably. Even though the film is a comedy, it still fails to really get into anything worthwhile. It comes across as "existence for dummies". Smith's previous film, Chasing Amy (his best in my opinion), is actually more profound than this film is. It's an overly silly movie about religion. I was just offended by the bad acting and filmmaking, not by the so-called "blasphemy" of the film. The Catholic Church who protested this film were fools for doing so. There's nothing worth bothering about here.
Rating: - YAY!!!
I love this movie! I quote it often in debates which can throw people off citing a Kevin Smith film in arguements on abortion ("A woman's body is her own damn business"-Jay) and faith/religion ("It not about what you have faith in, just that you have faith"-Serendipity or Rufus' explaination on why ideas are better than beliefs because you can change an idea, but changing beliefs is much harder. or Bethany notes on what her friend's [pool boy] said about religion that its like a glass and when you're a child it's easy to fill but as you get older the glass gets bigger and the same amount of liquid doesn't fill it anymore. Or what Bethany says about how when you're little you don't question any of [religion], God's up there and she's always watching you!) I could go on and on about how much I love this movie but anyway, I reccommend this film to anyone and everyone willing to watch it! Even if you don't like it and think it to be some sort of hersey or adbomination to relion all together...I hope it at least makes you think about religion today, and how you feel about your own faith.
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