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immature take on Christianity
Well, yes: Here is a star-studded cast, and here are a few good jokes. I guess it fits the genre "dark comedy." Maybe that's enough.

And maybe it's not. It's not, if you mind that the trash outweighs the treasure. It's not if you don't find an enormous "excremental" poop-giant sent up from Hell to be hilariously funny. It's not if a valley boy ("Jay") begging for sex every two minutes doesn't seem clever.

You might also find this movie grating if you have any respect for institutional religion, since the Catholic Church especially becomes an object of tasteless satire. Or if you don't really like gratuitous violence, because there is plenty here. Or if you think that such a frontal attack on religion might do better to have something more subtle going for it than the callow distinction between "beliefs" and "ideas" that is belatedly introduced here by the 13th apostle, stupidly named "Rufus," and played by Chris Rock, whose talent truly is wasted on this lame film (along with the rest of the considerable cast).

In short, this is a precocious inside joke for Kevin Smith afficionados. The rest of the world would do well to tune out.

Hot Dogma
We start out with an old man in front of a skeeball location getting the snot beat out of him, then a flash to the story. Evidently two ejected angels sent to Wisconsin for the duration have found a loophole that will allow them to return to Heaven unscathed. Seems that no one from above or below really wants this to happen. So several beings with their own agenda are coercing Bethany Sloane (Linda Fiorentino) to do their dirty work as she unknowingly is the only one qualified.

Will Bethany be able to stop the two angels before it is too late? Or is there a sinister unnamed force helping the fallen angels to succeed?

Some of the actors are just coasting through the movie (probably to pick up some spending cash). But Alan Rickman is excellent as usual and plays the indignant part to the hilt. See him again in "Galaxy Quest" made the same year.

Defiantly designed for certain genre tastes (sort of a cross between Ghost Busters and Monty Python with a little Arthur Miller tossed in.) I personally found it a tad too potty mouthed and over obsessed with sex. Other than that it brings up good primes and a few eternal questions. This is defiantly on of those films that need to be viewed more than once to pick up on the nuances'


Could Have Been Enjoyable But Too Much Swearing
A poke at religion is ok. But a poke at religion where there is constant obscenities is unsettling and detracts from the movie. The Matt Damon character is particularly hard to listen to.

There are plenty of movies that are extremely funny but don't have to lower themselves to the gutter to be so......

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