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Kevin Smith's Special Bible
Writer and director Kevin Smith focuses the depths of religon with the inventive comedy "Dogma". Two renegade angels (Ben Affleck & Matt Damon) have devised a plan to sneak back to heaven, but unknown to them, their action will cause the destruction of the world. Now, a doubting mortal (Linda Fiorentino) with the help of two unlikely prophets (Kevin Smith & Jason Mewes), the 13th apostle (Chris Rock) and a sexy muse (Salma Hayek), must stop these renegade angels and save the world. "Dogma" is an unnusual and hilarious comic romp from the creative mind of director Kevin Smith (Clerks & Chasing Amy). The storyline is imaginative and quite entertaining. Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Linda Fiorentino deliver some great comic performances. Chris Rock, Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes and Alan Rickman are hilarious. The film is presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen format. The DVD has a sharp and clear video transfer and a rich 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. Its only supplemental extras are the fullscreen theatrical trailers for "Dogma" and "The Opposite of Sex". Saving for the special edition is strongly recommended because this simple edition of "Dogma" scores a "C".

Smith's Best
I own every Kevin Smith film on Special Edition DVD, and this one is, and always will be, my favorite. It is so intelligent, so intruiging, so funny. Such good acting, and even if Alan Rickman only has four scenes, he's still hilarious. All the actors are good, and this is the most well scripted, complicated of all Smith's films. There's laughs, and laughs, and more laughs! Yes, there's some violence, but it's neccesary to advance the plot, and come on, it's mostly offscreen! Damon and Affleck are so great as angels, Salma Hayek is super sexy as the muse, Serendipity. Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes return as the always funny Jay and SIlent Bob, given their second biggest role here (the first in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back). Plus, this movie was filmed in 2:35:1, and there's more information on the side than in the previous films.

The Special Edition DVD is great, and the original DVD is horrible! Let's compare. The orignal DVD has two trailers, the movie in anamorphic widescreen, and the movie in full-screen (BOO!). The new DVD has the movie in anamorphic widescreen, a trailer, a still gallery, outtakes, easter eggs, 100 minutes of deleted scenes, and last but, CERTAINLY not least two audio commentaries, a regualar one, and a technical one, whic is (surprise) more technical.

Pick this DVD up now. In my humble opinion, if I coulonly own one Kevin Smith DVD, this would be the one. Awesome movie, great DVD!

Highley recommended

"B+" idea with "C-" execution
As the opening to the movie suggests, "Dogma" is not expressly intended to offend but to look at things open-mindedly. No one can disagree with the idea that it explores religion from a nontraditional perspective. Two angels (Ben Affleck and Matt Damon) have fallen and have been banished to a place "worse" than hell...Wisconsin. They discover a loophole which could get them into heaven, but this would ultimately make God falliable and destroy the universe.

The band of characters that seek to stop them include: the "13th disciple" who was omitted from the Bible because he was black; an angel who's working as a stripper; a pro-abortion lapsed Catholic who turns out to be in the lineage of Jesus; and last and definitely least, Jay and Silent Bob.

Many of the characters and ideas effectively make us step back and realize that "traditional" beliefs are full of assumptions and prejudices about how things are supposed to be. However, I don't know if Kevin Smith was trying too hard to challenge EVERY possible belief or if he starting having a little too much fun at the expense of ultra-conservatives, but the theme suffers at the expense of excess. There are simply too many new "revelations" thrown out; as the movie progresses, Smith seems to use the story less to question whether traditional ideas are correct and more to boldly proclaim that they aren't. While I'm willing to admit some "traditional" ideas might be erroneous, I can hardly believe that Smith's concocted mess of explanations is more worthwhile.

The most overused characters of all are Jay and Silent Bob. In this film, they are strictly one-trick ponies. Silent Bob is...silent. Anyone who remembers the show "Newhart" realizes that a silent character is hardly original. Jay says nothing profound or even amusing; apparently, the fact that every sentence is chock-full of expletives is supposed to be side-splitting. Okay, Jay's vulgar and Bob's silent; we get it. We got it the first 20 times the gag was stuffed down our throat.

The idea wasn't a bad one, but it just wasn't developed as completely as it could have been. At the end, I spent less time thinking about my faith and more time thinking about what was wrong with the movie.

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