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    Religulous (2008)

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    Date: 17 May 2011 08:47:15
    Religulous (2008)

    Religulous (2008)
    A Film by Larry Charles
    DVD5 (VIDEO_TS) | NTSC 16:9 (720 x 480) Anamorphic | 01:40:54 | 4,20 Gb
    Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps / AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English, Spanish
    Genre: Documentary, Comedy | 2 wins & 1 nomination | USA

    Having come to the conclusion that religion has no place in modern society, US satirist Bill Maher travels the world meeting people from a variety of faiths and questioning their firmly-held beliefs. Meet the satanist preacher-turned-trucker who can explain the mysteries of the Turin Shroud, the Jewish Holocaust-denier and the Amsterdam pothead who's found God in the weed. Not for the easily offended, this edgy documentary from the director of Borat is bold, brave and brilliantly blasphemous.

    Can we be good without god? Is religion a calling or a mental illness? What have talking snakes, immaculate conceptions, walking on water, extra-terrestrial travellers, a container load of truckers, Islamic hip-hop and the natural highs of the Cannabis Ministries got to do with spiritual salvation? These are some of the questions director Larry Charles (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Borat) and comedian, commentator and all round religious sceptic, Bill Maher (Politically Incorrect, Real Time With Bill Maher) seek answers to in RELIGULOUS.

    Award-winning Maher reflects on his own religious upbringing and travels to Jerusalem, Egypt, London, Amsterdam, The Vatican and across the United States exploring the role of religion in today's society. Along the way he talks to believers, non-believers, religious leaders, self professed messiahs, atheists, extremists, politicians, agnostics, academics and the average man on the street looking to lift the lid on their beliefs.

    IMDB 7.8/10 (26,382 votes)

    Religulous (2008)

    Bill Maher, with his wryly contemptuous gleam (a look that says, to almost everything, ''You've got to be kidding me!''), is only too happy to be the skunk at the garden party. That's one reason some folks can't stand him. But to me it's Maher's prickly honesty that has always made him an electrifying comic artist. Unlike his fellow political jester Jon Stewart, Maher puts his idiosyncrasies right out there, even when they tick people off — his feelings about drugs, for instance (he's a big fan), or marriage (not a fan), or religion (really not a fan). He's a bombs-away provocateur, and in Religulous, Maher's blasphemous detonation of all things holy and scriptural, he doesn’t really pretend to play fair. He's like Lenny Bruce with an inquiring mind and a video camera.

    Religulous (2008)

    In this documentary collaboration with Borat director Larry Charles, Maher travels across America, as well as to Jerusalem and the Vatican and the Netherlands, grilling people about their religious faith. He talks to wealthy ministers in lizard-skin shoes, egomaniacal rabbis, a fellow who attempts to get gay men ''back in touch'' with the straight Christian inside, a guy who plays Jesus at an evangelical theme park, and his own mother (who was Jewish — though the comedian was raised Catholic). Does Maher take cheap shots? More than you can count. (Some of them, I have to say, are hilarious.) If you believe, as I do, that religion has been the prime civilizing force in our world, then Religulous may on some level be indefensible. But that's why I'm glad Maher made it. He's scathing, but also curious, and as mischievous an interrogator as Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat. Talking to a melting pot of the faithful, Maher worms his way into the niggling contradictions of our cherished belief systems. There's a ticklish, childlike logical glee to his view that Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are fairy tales for adults. Religulous isn't an attack upon God but on the vain, deluded things human beings say and do in His name.

    Religulous (2008)

    The movie is funny as…well, hell. It's also galvanizingly topical, since Maher’s view is that anyone who is powerful enough to have his or her finger on the nuclear button should not be overly eager for the Rapture. Religulous emerges as the first movie jape of the Sarah Palin era. It's a film that's destined to make a lot of people mad, but Maher, for all his showy atheistic ''doubt,'' isn't just trying to crucify religion — he truly wants to know what makes it tick. He leaves no stone tablet unturned.
    Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
    Religulous (2008)

    Although Bill Maher delivers Religulous as a comedy, it becomes obvious that he's dead serious about his subject. The movie is no less than a call to arms to non-believers, i.e. atheists and agnostics, asking them to not be shy about their non-belief in the face of commonly accepted (but, according to Maher, patently ridiculous) major religious beliefs. And, frankly, I can get behind that. Traditionally, non-believers don't really have a voice, and they don't usually communicate their opinions in the generally condescending or defensive way that believers often do, so Religulous is a force of drastic reaction, wherein Maher finds blind faith believers who can't necessarily back up what they believe with logic or facts and mocks them.

    Religulous (2008)

    His range of interview subjects is varied and interesting, though they may be faulted for being easy targets (no surprise it feels similar to Borat, which has the same director – Larry Charles); still, the point is made distinctly. Maher's approach may offend some, even those he is speaking for, but the move is the equivalent of trying to make a big noise where there previously wasn't much of one. Religion is one of the only subjects where discourse is unspokenly frowned upon – we can argue politics all day, but with religion it's either the extreme of live and let live, or kill or be killed. So I appreciate this movie – it wants to be a wakeup call in a room where the people are willing to sleep just a little too deeply.
    Jeffrey Chen, Windows to the Movies
    Religulous (2008)

    Extras:
    - Commentary with Bill Maher and director Larry Charles
    - Deleted scenes (Howard Bloom; Burkah store; Creme trance; David Icke; Rael and disciples; Michael Bray; Polygamist wives)
    - Maher's monlogues from around the world
    - Also from Lionsgate
    Religulous (2008)

    Religulous (2008)

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