What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and his Church of Stop Shopping choir as they travel across the country in biodiesel buses preaching, proselytizing, and singing the gospel: stop the Shopocalypse. This movie is to charismatic evangelicals what Stephen Colbert is to Fox News, complete with sweat dripping down Reverend Billy's face, speaking in tongues, healing the sick, and even a baptism outside a Wal-Mart. His cause is twofold: to bring back the true meaning of Christmas and to stop Americans from continuing down the path of eternal debt. He also decries the death of Main Street to Wal-Mart and the exportation of US manufacturing jobs to sweatshops overseas.
This movie was...slow. Think "Supersize Me" with no plot progression. And less funny. Maybe the popcorn just wasn't sitting well. OR maybe the movie is the same thing over and over again each time the Rev gets to a new city. It's inspirational and sometimes funny, and even features a cameo by Ms. Levine herself. But midway through the 1hr 40min running time I started hoping for the real apocalypse.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Movie Review: What Would Jesus Buy?
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I was not hoping for a real apocalypse by the end of it, but agree with Michelle that the execution of the story could have been better.
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