Maher interviews and ridicules the devout as though he were God. This may be arrogant and paradoxical, especially for an agnostic-atheist--but it makes for often hilarious entertainment.
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10/01/08
Religulous (2008)
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Reviews Counted:141
Fresh:98
Rotten:43
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: Religulous is funny and offensive in equal measure, and aims less to change hearts and minds than to inspire conversation.
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $12,995,673
Synopsis: Bill Maher travels to Israel, England, the Netherlands, Vatican City, and across America, speaking to people about faith and religion in the very funny documentary RELIGULOUS. Maher, a stand-up... [More]
Reviews for Religulous
121 - 140 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
As intellectually dishonest toward religion as Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed was in the other direction.
10/01/08
Fearless as a fatwa and subtle as a Second Coming, Religulous is a revelation.
10/01/08
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.
10/01/08
This movie doesn’t seriously explore how religion affects politics; it’s just a snide attack on religious belief.
10/01/08
The movie as a whole feels counterproductive; it doesn’t preach at all to the literal choir.
10/01/08
Religulous is a film that aims for laughs, not a scientific survey of the roots of faith.
10/01/08
Top CriticMaher's Michael Moore-style ambushes, though staged with less panache than the master's, are incisive and often laugh-out-loud funny, even if his targets often seem more like kooks and dimwits than serious theologians.
09/30/08
...while [Maher's] amused analyses of the basic tenets of multiple faiths are, indeed, funny and true, he'll be mostly singing to the choir of doubters he claims makes up America's largest minority..
09/30/08
Maher ridicules all religions except the 3rd largest, Hinduism, and 4th largest, Buddhism. Maher should praise Buddha for inventing a religion without a God. Maher ends preaching.
09/30/08
Being snarky and smug doesn't equate to providing insight, and there's more than one occasion when the filmmakers lose sight of this in their zeal to spread the Gospel According to Maher.
09/30/08
Employs a debilitating brand of smug disingenuousness, feigning interest in discussion while arrogantly and speciously preaching in the very same manner that its subjects are ridiculed for.
09/28/08
Maher makes it a point to focus on normal, reasonably sane religious people. He's not stacking the deck in his favor, because he doesn't need to.
09/26/08
Maher's holy trinity comes in the form of the words 'I don't know' and it's the lesson he wants to shout from the pulpit, even if there's some arrogance in believing that he knows everyone else is wrong.
09/25/08
...Religulous begins to seriously run out of steam somewhere past the halfway mark, as the repetitive nature of the movie's structure becomes increasingly tough to take.
09/16/08
Maher's journey's not about finding out what makes religious people tick, but about using the tics of mostly fringe religious people to prop up the thesis Maher came in with.
09/16/08
It's a funny film about some depressing things, it's a lighthearted tour through terrorism, injustice and intolerance. But those contradiction and challenges are, ultimately, what make the film linger uneasily in your mind.
09/09/08
An often hilarious but relentlessly shallow attack on religious fundamentalism by humorist Bill Maher.
09/05/08
A blunt satiric object applied to delicate subject matter, Religulous is a consistently funny if one-sided putdown of society's blind devotion to its religious faiths.
08/24/08
"Religulous" (rhymes with ridiculous) is a funny, debate-provoking movie that dares to question fundamental beliefs that have been foisted on societies in order to enable brutality and prejudice in the name of a higher power. It's a call for humanity to g
08/24/08
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