Religulous

The big religions put to the test

You may know Bill Maher, the maker of "Religulous" as a cynic political comedian so it may not really have surprised you that he checks out religions for his documentary.

So what is this docutainmentary about. It is about the absurdities in all the big religions. It is not really against them, it's not stating the fact that we should all become atheists. The movie just shows us the religions we believe to know from a different side, a weird side where you will find yourself even shaking your head on your maybe own religion for a while. We get a critic look on christianity, judaism, islam, mormones, scientology and an outlook on older religions.

It is not a really serious documentary and it plays with the interviews as it likes but in the end it also states facts. Religion is dangerous when it is played in the interests of very few people and maybe that's the message the movie wanted to give us but maybe it came around the corner the wrong way to do so.

However it is an entertaining documentary if you don't feel offended quickly by anything that makes you think about your beliefes. I don't wanna take a side on this, I just find it a good piece of work by Bill Maher and if you usually enjoy entertainmentaries you may actually find yourself liking it.


"Religulous" - released 2008