Posted on 08/21/2008 12:31:23 PM PDT by Publius804
DHP Review: Religulous
Posted by Dirty Harry on Thursday, August 21st, 2008
While more entertaining and better paced, director Larry Charles‘ Religulous can’t help but remind of Morgan Spurlock’s dreadful Where In The World Is Osama bin Laden?, especially at the end where both films are undone by their attempts to close on serious points the preceding 90 minutes of antics simply can’t sustain. It’s surprising Charles let this one get away from him. After all, he also directed Borat, and one of the few saving graces of that humiliation-fest was that it never lost sight of the fact that it was nothing more than a sketch comedy.
Religulous is hosted by Bill Maher who, like Spurlock, travels the world in search of unsuspecting everyday folks who can be selectively and mercilessly edited into boobs, rubes, crazies, and the corrupt. More than three-quarters of the run-time is spent on the fringes of Christianity in places like truck stop chapels, Jews for Jesus gift shops, and Holy Land amusement parks — pretty much anyplace Maher would have the least chance of bumping into someone who could handle the game he’s running, the laziest game played by militant atheists: Biblical gotcha!
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Wow, I didn’t know his history. I’m adding him to my prayer list
The same with all our cowardly, unfunny, “cutting edge” so-called comedians nowadays. Bash Christianity and Christians, but be so careful not to say a word about Muslims or Islam. I have nothing but contempt for these pc gutless wonders, Maher in particular.
Can you for a moment imagine a comedian whose routine was to routinely bash Judaism? To mock observant Jews? Or one whose specialty was to mock Buddhists? Finally, one who had the courage of his convictions to ridicule Moslems?
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