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Religulous
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LIONSGATE ENT.
Publisher: Lions Gate
Bill Maher
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Actors: Bill Maher, Steve Burg, Francis Collins, George Coyne, Jeremiah Cummings
In this new comedy from director Larry Charles (BORAT, "Seinfeld"), comedian and TV host Bill Maher ("Real Time with Bill Maher," "Politically Incorrect") takes a pilgrimage across the globe on a mind-opening journey into the ultimate taboo: questioning religion. Meeting the high and low from different religions, Maher simply asks questions, like "Why is faith good?"
COMEDIAN & TV HOST BILL MAHER TAKES A PILGRIMAGE ACROSS THE GLOBE ON A MIND-OPENING JOURNEY INTO THE ULTIMATE TABOO: QUESTIONING RELIGION.
Bill Maher incurs the wrath of multiple religious zealots of myriad faiths in Religulous, a snarky but unexpectedly powerful documentary. Maher bluntly disputes the value of religion in a world made increasingly dangerous, on the one hand, by fanaticism of all kinds and the human race's environmental self-destructiveness on the other. No one is immune from Maher's dogged questions about the illogic and negative fallout of doctrines that advocate violence or shun scientific evidence or marginalize minorities or punish anyone who disagrees with any religion's extreme tenets. Maher takes his inquiries to the Vatican; to small, evangelical Christian churches; to Jerusalem; to Amsterdam (where elements of an increasingly vocal Muslim community have shown violence toward critics); to a large, African-American church in a big city; and to several bizarre theme parks celebrating creationism and the life of Jesus. Wherever he goes, Maher seeks to demonstrate that many of the world's major religions are rife with hypocrisy, completely self-referential, and destructive to the collective good. The fast-moving, globe-trotting film is full of highlights, including a great scene where Maher, in disguise, argues for the core beliefs of Scientology to a bemused crowd at Speaker's Corner in London's Hyde Park. There's also a wonderful moment where Maher, just having been thrown out of the Vatican, gets a terrific interview with a maverick priest. Raised Catholic but in reality half-Jewish, Maher also spends time with his mother and sister trying to reconcile the role of religion in his childhood. Everything is really leading toward Maher's major point that atheists and agnostics are in a sizable minority but are afraid to speak out in these days of zealotry. If that minority stays in the background, Maher says, we may very well be heading toward catastrophe. --Tom Keogh Beyond Religulous on DVD 
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New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer the book | Stills from Religulous (click for larger image)
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| I loved this in theaters and I'm glad to finally have my own copy. |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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For anyone who watches Real Time and/or his standup, this is a real treat. A lot of moments are very funny to the point that it's surreal, and others force you to come to terms with the reality that there are some very religious people in this world (a fact I conveniently choose to ignore most of the time). I liked it a lot.
While I imagine that some people are as offended by Religulous as I am by Ben Stein's EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed, the film feels very natural to me. He seems to just prompt people and let their answers speak for themselves half the time.
Some of my favorite moments (as a Bill Maher fan) were getting to hear about his upbringing, with one Jewish parent and one Catholic. As someone who was never introduced to religion by parents or anyone else a child, I've always been interested in the stories of people who tried it first before turning to atheism (or agnosticism). Really, his point on this matter isn't offensive. He simply chooses to say, "I don't know" and points out how imprudent it is that other people choose to construct answers for things they consider unknown.
If you're open-minded and want to watch something interesting, try this. If you're close-minded and want to be very angry over a piece of entertainment, try it also.
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| A must movie to be broadcast on all main TV channels |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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This is a movie which could save our planet. Considering that a lot of people will not make the effort to read related books such as "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins, "The End of Faith" by Sam Harris, or "god is not Great" by Christopher Hitchens, this documentary can be watched as a highly entertaining movie and, indirectly, it can open the eyes of a lot people who think they know all the answers or are afraid to face the truth. It should be dubbed in as many languages as possible (I would recommend even in Yiddish) and it should be broadcast on every main channel around the world. I hope somebody will have the guts to do it. Anyway, thanks, Bill! You're great!
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If you like Bill Maher's take on world issues and his somewhat dry sense of humor, get this movie. Although he has become a Far Left individual with strong opinions on Bush, Palin and Health Care, I still find his delivery of his material hilarious.
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| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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I enjoyed the video, but had to watch it in short segments. Too much of it made me sleepy. Some parts were very interesting, others not so much.
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| Lack of depth, ad hominem attacks doom Religulous |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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For years I have enjoyed watching Bill Maher's programs, especially the unjustly cancelled Politically Incorrect. Maher is one of the few politically aware comics. He is one of the smarter comics, not afraid to put Ann Coulter, Dr. Cornel West and Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) on the air at the same time. His weakness is a true hatred of religion. The problem? Bill Maher does not really understand religion, Christianity in particular.
Maher repeatedly stereotypes Christians as believing in a talking snake (i.e. the serpent from Genesis). He does this despite the fact that Catholic and Protestant scholars have known for a long time that much of early Genesis is myth. Myth means the story reveals deeper truths. It is not science, there was no modern science when the Old Testament was written! An astronomer from the Vatican, featured in Religulous says as much. Maher's is repeatedly unable to distinguish Fundamentalists from the thinking faithful of Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
The documentarian says time and time again that he has doubts and questions, attacking those who are "certain." Doubts and questions are fine, but he would have fewer of them if he updated himself on 20th and 21st century theology. I will continue watching Real Time, but pass on Religulous if seeking an honest, intellectual debate on religion.
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