Leave it to the Catholics to Destroy Existence
- Title: Dogma
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I give huge props to anyone who attempts to do a religious film, much less a religious comedy. The level of controversy, protests, and roadblocks, has to be at time overwhelming. Hate mail, death threats, money and distribution issues, and a host of new actors who he hadn’t worked with before and special effects shots which he’d never done – and you know what? Kevin Smith proves his doubters wrong. It’s a pretty entertainin’ flick, which underneath the giant poop monster and “bad language” actually has a few insightful things to say about the nature of religion.
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