Dogma

It's not every day you get to see a movie that begins in satire and ends in reverence, but then, for Kevin Smith, they may ultimately be the same thing. more

One of those special movies whose freshness and vitality are so bounteously infectious, your humble reviewer wishes everyone had the pleasure of discovering it brand-new and undescribed.

If the film is less than perfect, it is because Smith is too much in love with his dialogue. Smith is a gifted comic writer who loves paradox, rhetoric and unexpected zingers from the blind side. more

Kevin Smith's comic-religious fantasy turns out to be the sweetest hot-potato movie imaginable. more

One of the most intelligent, engaging, and gut-bustingly funny revelations to come along in a while. more

A raunchy, irreverent, generally hilarious sendup of ritual and papal decree. more

Mature, thoughtful and occasionally dazzling. more

Has that rarest of qualities in movies that think of themselves as religious. I'm talking about the vision thing. And the ability to make morality entertaining. more

A scathing, scurrilous, sometimes silly but often searching comedy about the nature of faith in the 21st century. more

A profession of faith, made with the confident disrespect of a true believer. more

Probably my favorite movie from Kevin Smith because it is his most intricate and intelligent film. It questions religion and at the same time makes it a justifiable belief system. The characters are great criticisms of their written counterparts. It is a movie that can be taken seriously as well as with a sense of humor and a cruel one at that. more

Bethany: You were martyred? Rufus: That's one way of putting it. Another way of putting it would be to say that I was bludgeoned to death by huge fucking rocks. Along with Clerks, this is my other favorite Kevin Smith film and one of my favorite overall movies. It's hilarious. Loki: Easy for you to say. You get off light in razing. You got to stand there and read at Sodom and Gomorrah, I had to do all the work. Bartleby: What work did you do? You lit a few fires. Loki: I rained down sulphur, man, there's a subtle difference. Bartleby: Oh, yeah, I'm sure. Loki: Hey, you know, fuck you, man.... more

The weirdest mix of a Kevin Smith movie I've ever seen. In part home movie, in part religious satire, in part epic journey, this movie gives rise to the question of God but also makes you laugh. It's kind of clumsily executed but that's part of its charm too. more

Dogma is firmly rooted in Kevin Smith's View Askew world so fans of his other films will not be disappointed. However, it also expands on the direction he took in Chasing Amy by dealing with subject matter and concepts that are personal and thought provoking. Dogma goes beyond the "dick and fart jokes", which are reassuringly present, and gives the viewer something to think about. The film deals with thoughts on religion, Catholicism mainly, in a way that pokes fun at the institution but does not deride it. Dogma is by no stretch of the imagination an anti-Catholic movie. It embraces... more

Really hilarious and irreverent for the first half, too many subplots and cheesy altercations in the second. I kinda get where they were going with Alanis Morissette's God but didn't quite gel for me. On the whole, enjoyable and Matt Damon is rather funny. more

The film is a satire of the Catholic Church and Catholic belief, its strong vein of irony or sarcasm, but parody, burlesque, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre. The essential point, however, is that, irony is militant, and this "militant irony" (or sarcasm...he he) often professes to approve the very things the satirist actually wishes to attack...I mean come on, the film centres around Catholicism but the word "fuck" is used 106 times in the film, and the word "shit" 38 times lol more