Dogma
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767849487
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767849485
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: December 03, 2002
Running Time: 130 minutes
Sales Rank: 20284
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
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Editorial Review:
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Kevin Smith is a conundrum of a filmmaker: he's a writer with brilliant, clever ideas who can't set up a simple shot to save his life. It was fine back when Smith was making low-budget films like Clerks and Chasing Amy, both of which had an amiable, grungy feel to them, but now that he's a rising director who's attracting top talent and tackling bigger themes, it might behoove him to polish his filmmaking. That's the main problem with Dogma--it's an ambitious, funny, aggressively intelligent film about modern-day religion, but while Smith's writing has matured significantly (anyone who thinks he's not topnotch should take a look at Chasing Amy), his direction hasn't. It's too bad, because Dogma is ripe for near-classic status in its theological satire, which is hardly as blasphemous as the protests that greeted the movie would lead you to believe.
Two banished angels (Ben Affleck and Matt Damon) have discovered a loophole that would allow them back into heaven; problem is, they'd destroy civilization in the process by proving God fallible. It's up to Bethany (Linda Fiorentino), a lapsed Catholic who works in an abortion clinic, to save the day, with some help from two so-called prophets (Smith and Jason Mewes, as their perennial characters Jay and Silent Bob), the heretofore unknown 13th apostle (Chris Rock), and a sexy, heavenly muse (the sublime Salma Hayek, who almost single-handedly steals the film). In some ways Dogma is a shaggy dog of a road movie--which hits a comic peak when Affleck and Fiorentino banter drunkenly on a train to New Jersey, not realizing they're mortal enemies--and segues into a comedy-action flick as the vengeful angels (who have a taste for blood) try to make their way into heaven. Smith's cast is exceptional--with Fiorentino lending a sardonic gravity to the proceedings, and Jason Lee smirking evilly as the horned devil Azrael--and the film shuffles good-naturedly to its climax (featuring Alanis Morissette as a beatifically silent God), but it just looks so unrelentingly... subpar. Credit Smith with being a daring writer but a less-than-stellar director. --Mark Englehart
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- I repeat, this is not a drill. This is the apocalypse. Please exit the hospital in an orderly fashion. Thank you'Dogma' is an irreverent look at religion from auteur Kevin Smith. Though it was protested by religious ... Read More
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- Hilarious, but...I think you'd have to have spent your high school years at a Catholic school like I did to truly appreciate ... Read More
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- Holy crap, batmanThis is without any doubt, the worst film I ever had the misfortune to see. Truly, impressively, stunningly ... Read More
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- Brilliant Kevin Smith flick!Great story line, written by Kevin Smith; two angels expelled from Heaven are seeking a way to get back, and ... Read More
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- Scurilous satire. You've got to believeI've seen this a number of times and find something new to laugh at almost every time I watch. It's superb satire ... Read More
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