Kevin Smith's Dogma

This is a movie directed by Kevin Smith, whose claim to fame was a very low budget film called "Clerks". He also did "Chasing Amy". And his success with those two films obviously gave the powers-that-be in Hollywood who hold the purse strings the incentive to give him the go-ahead to what I call "Animal House" with God and his angels in place of John Belushi and his frat brothers. Anyway, the film made money. It also made me realize the difference between humor and cleverness. This film is clever. It is as clever as kids making faces or throwing spitballs in church when the priest or minister isn't looking.

I checked some of the reviews- many of which were favorable, including TIME, which headlined its review: "Can God Take a Joke?" (Nov 8, 1999), and Roger Ebert, the Timothy Leary of wannabe film critics, who gave it a rave on his syndicated TV show.

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