gervais is a genius

Does that mean that you were fine with religion as practised before the Council(s) Of Nicea?

The pizza box moment in the film is jarring …. you could have used any standard pizza box and gotten the point across. Creatively speaking it would have been a wash.

Today’s movies are inundated with product placement, so it’s hard not to imagine this wasn’t more of the same. I’ll amend my review all the same in the interest of fairness.

‘I think it’s so funny when people say, oh God, there’s so much product placement in the film. We didn’t get a penny.’

Wish people would actually research statements before they made them; loads of people have criticised the ‘product placement’ in this movie, but they just didn’t want to use fake products.

The movie isn’t a home run, but I thought it was entertaining. I think viewers either get Gervais or don’t get Gervais. It’s something to do with that dry British sense of humor.

It’s not hard to find Brits who think this movie sucks. Note that both reviews imply that Stephen Merchant was largely responsible for Gervais’ reputation as a comic genius. Well, actually, one basically says it outright…

I do. I think he’s bril.

So he points out some of the craziness of blind faith – so? He’s making a movie in a Christian society, why would he choose to focus on Buddhism or Islam?

When you break down the Bible stories they are pretty implausible, and a little funny (if you think about it), but I don’t want to get into an argument over Christianity – I had my fill of that in Christian private school.

Yes, I was highly irritated by the product placement, but it seems everyone is doing it these days.

The movie isn’t a home run, but I thought it was entertaining. I think viewers either get Gervais or don’t get Gervais. It’s something to do with that dry British sense of humor.

I think he made some pretty interesting observations without ramming it down our throats. In the end, the viewer can make their own decision as to whether the movie is a message film or simply pointing out some of the far out stuff people choose to believe and in fact, base their entire lives on.

I could go on, but I will conclude. I liked it and that ain’t no lie.