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Bubblehead’s been reviewing movies again (best rating system ever!):
Bubblehead - ‘Mighty’ Movie Reviews: “Evan Almighty” And “A Mighty Heart”
In which he compliments me, I mean, in which he makes this point:
The incomparable ninme provides a link to a review by a Hollywood blogger who claims the movie has a “Christian message” — even though Jesus isn’t mentioned once in the film!
And here it is again, even more bluntly:
…after this past weekend’s stumble by Christian comedy “Evan Almighty,”…
Emphasis mine. Yes, folks, a movie about funny animals making messes is a “Christian comedy”. Now of course they’ll probably go back to making Brokeback Mountains and say “What we tried making movies for the Christian community but it didn’t work. We don’t think they exist, anyway. Just a myth concocted by Karl Rove to explain away his election-stealing by saying ‘the Christians voted’.” Mark my words, people. Or don’t. The slow news day is starting to get to me. Or not.
June 26th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
I take Bubblehead’s point, but can’t resist pointing out that if “Jesus!” makes it a Christian flick, I’m pretty sure all the non-kiddie movies are Christian.
June 26th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Don’t mean to monopolize, but Noah is an Old Testament figure. Doesn’t that make Evan Almighty a Jewish comedy? Evan is married to a shiksa, right? Cinches it.
June 26th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
I gotta say, the Apple dictionary and thesaurus is really an exemplary piece of software for its ability to translate all of your Yiddish. Thanks to it, I don’t miss anything!
The thought crossed my mind that his Jesus line was an oblique reference to the Mormons-as-Christians debate, although I think I might be over-thinking things a bit.
June 26th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
I just noticed that Barb Nicolosi recommends Evan Almighty as “pure, broad, over the top, comedy fun with some nice theology alongside.” And she’s a sound person.
June 26th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Yeah I saw that too. It surprised me. But then maybe she isn’t as sensitive to politics as I am.
Basically when any idiot in Hollywood who probably thinks that Nancy Pelosi is an ideal Catholic and when the pope and the US president meet that the relevant caption for the accompanying photograph is “both religious conservatives” starts telling me what I (not that I’m part of it but whatever) should like because she (or her like-minded associates) is gearing it towards me, I go right off of it.
June 28th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
National Review & National Catholic Register like it too, although not awfully.