Religulous is from the director of Borat but it's a documentary with Bill Maher at the center. So it's hard to decide if it's going to be mostly funny or mostly full of hot air. Judging by the trailer, it's a little bit of both. Oh, and also a message film. It even goes so far as to tell us it's "From the studio that brought you Fahrenheit 9/11." I'm sorry, can we now say "From the studio that..." because there are some massive studios out there that could just name their best film ever and say this new crappy film is from the same studio. In other words: Not saying much. And being associated with Fahrenheit 9/11 is probably more divisive than anything. This movie looks at religion, but it would probably be better with someone at the helm who was more neutral and didn't make religion just look like a ridiculous joke. Especially since the majority of people in the world believe in some form of religion. It's going to be a hard sell to the people who aren't already as skeptical as Maher himself, which makes it kind of pointless as a message film, doesn't it? I am all for asking questions about religion; it just might be better to have someone asking them who doesn't think he knows more than the people he's asking. But, then, Michael Moore's been a huge success, so maybe it's just me.

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