Rating: Summary: It's Dogma, need I say more. Review: This is one of the great movies of recent time. Add to it all the deleted scenes on this great DVD and this is a classic that any Kevin Smith fan needs to have. Without a doubt a needed addition to any DVD collection.
Rating: Summary: Bring your sense of humor. Review: Kevin Smith fans, rejoice! If "Chasing Amy" left you cold because it was too serious, you will be pleased to know that Smith returns to his formula in this movie and only shows you whats funny. Bring your sense of humor as Smith pokes fun at religion in every concievable way. I don't recomend you eat while watching this film however, as things more gross than Ben Affleck will be making an appearance. Buy this film, and maybe extra copies so you can loan it out to your friends.
Rating: Summary: Who's house? Ron's house!! Review: Is "haha" one word or two? Either way. That's how I sum it up: Haha. -A very funny movie. You gotta look past the "fairy tale" side of some of it though. And you also gotta realize they're not making fun of God, or religion. Ben Afleck, and Matt Damon, give a great peformance. They always make a good team. And Jay and Silent Bob are pretty cool too. I highly recommend seeing this one. With an open mind of course.
Rating: Summary: Everything that you could jam into a DVD, and a fruit pie. Review: I love Kevin Smith. I mean, LOVE him. His movies are the greatest contributions to human society since electricity. And I'd love to say "Hey this DVD BLOWS!" because firstly I love trashing movies, and secondly, I love the sound of my own voice. But sadly, this is the best movie I've seen in a LONG time. Not just the movie is good, so's the DVD. Kevin's movie itself, "Dogma" is an awesome story about two renegade angels named Bartleby and Loki (played by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon respectively) who may un-make existance if not for the help of a simple lowly human (played by Linda Florentino)who turns out to be more important than she had imagined. To top it all off, who do you think shows up but a couple of prophets, namely Jay and Silent Bob, also known as "Kevin Smith's cash cows #1 and #2". If the quality of said movie isn't enough for you, the DVDs are awesome. You won't want to throw the second one away after one viewing like some special edition DVDs I've watched. There's TONS of deleted scenes, outtakes, storyboards, bios, and then my favorite part, the commentary. Kevin Smith's commentaries are always entertaining, and I end up watching them as much as the movie. If you have the video and you're thinking of buying this, don't hesitate. Trust me.
Rating: Summary: Extremely Funny Review: This may have had a much bigger budget than Clerks or Mall Rats, but it's hard to tell. Scripting is fabulous; casting is pretty on-track, with the exception of Alannis Morisette as God. Or maybe I just felt that way because she annoys the he** out of me.
Rating: Summary: A great film for people who think Review: This film suprised me more than any other film during the last 3 years. I recomend it to all true beleivers and people who like to think. The film challenges your faith and your standards. Watch it and you'll never think the same way before. Yes the language is strong and sex is mentioned almost in every line but the film helped me to understand religion much more than books written by theologians. Great actors and very clever directing will sweep you off your feet.
Rating: Summary: God-awful Review: "Dogma" is about a total moron who spouts off, and everyone else shaking their head at him in a benign way. I'm not making that up. Also, if you're doing a satire, never have a cutesy apology appear before the movie starts. Jonathan Swift or Terry Southern never did that. You either believe in your vision, or you don't. Smith's problem is he wants to have things both ways. He's supposedly educating us on religion, and making us laugh with bathroom humor. Except he ends up doing neither. The religous stuff is just preaching to the converted, there's nothing insightful about what he's saying. And the humor is painfully forced, unfunny, and over the top vulgar. Don't get me wrong, I love lowbrow humor as much as anyone. But this movie is basically for anyone who still gets a kick out of hearing themselves or other people curse. It reminded me of a "Scooby Doo" episode written by a pretentious hack philosophy student. Damon and Affleck's lame performances exemplify the movie's smug, pleased with it itself tone. They seem more interested in entertaining themselves than the audience. And you have to be really untalented to make George Carlin and Chris Rock not funny.
Rating: Summary: Vulgar And Virulently Anti-Catholic! Review: Excrement monsters? Crude discussions about anal intercourse? The genetic-based divinity of Christ? Racist Aostles? This film goes WAY over the line in slamming catholic theology in terms that should have earned it a NC-17 rating. I was deeply offended, and I'm not even christian, let alone catholic. Frankly, I can't even give you some examples of the dialogue without turning this into an N-17 review, which incidently is how the movie itself should have been rated.
Rating: Summary: Oh, it's soooo applicable! Review: Anyone who has ever wondered why their church has expected certain doctrines for no apparent reason should see this movie. It centers around two banished angels using the Catholic church's dogmatic authority to get back into heaven and prove God wrong (which is the ultimate divine catastrophe!). To stop this disaster, poor little Bethany is required to take a look at her faith once again and see where she went wrong. This movie sent people back to church with a new view on faith. Others of course were offended and protested. I, as a Pagan, was able to appreciate Kevin Smith finally revealing on the screen what many of us (and liberal/moderate Christians) have known all along! The God-as-a-woman portrayal by Alanis Morrisette was hilarious and you can't deny Jason Mewes' ability to cut through with his Jay vulgarity. Overall, this was a long-overdue film to attack this widely known but silently concealed issue: religious dogma. Besides, it introduced me to the rest of Smith's films, all of which are at least funny. CLERKS and CHASING AMY deal with real, insightful humanities as well. You've got to see this film; once you do you'll be aching to buy it!
Rating: Summary: Watch with an open mind Review: Here's the story of two fallen angels who have a plan to get back into Heaven, and the last descendent of Jesus Christ is chosen to stop them. I think that this movie is subtly brilliant. I might get slapped for saying this, but there are many profound things said in this movie that make the silly plot worth it. It is a very entertaining movie. But more than that, the script itself is very, very good. It is no way insulting to the Church, rather, it just challenges how we see things. It provides different ideas of how things could have been like for Jesus, and I think that it confronts a lot of hypocrisy that has given Christianity a bad rep.
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