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All teen and kid reviews for Religulous

Age
14
Average rating based on 6 kid and teen reviews:
  • 67% say language is an issue
  • 50% say there are positive role models
  • 50% say there are positive messages
  • 50% say there's too much drinking, drugs, or smoking
  • 33% say sexual content is an issue
Teen, 16 years old
January 10, 2011
 
This film is an incredibly powerful look at the impact religion has on our world and how it will ultimately lead to its destruction if people don't stop and come to their senses. It is also very funny, with many of the laughs coming in the form of editing throughout Bill Maher's interviews with various religious figures, which only highlights the stupidity of the interview subjects. Rarely have I seen a documentary film that both scares and enlightens me and consistently cracks me up at the same time. This film should be seen by every teen and adult, no matter what your religious views are. You might learn something.

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Teen, 16 years old
December 8, 2010
 
Finally: An intelligent, reasonable look at religion and why we believe it
If you are religious, then this movie will not only deeply offend you, but it might even make you question your faith, no matter how devout you are. I personally think the film is just supporting the thought of being rational, and thinking in a mature, logical sense instead of with superstition. "Religion, is making a virtue out of not thinking." ~Bill Maher

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Teen, 16 years old
February 9, 2011
 
in the thoughts of PeterG
The truth is i could go on talking about the effects of religion on world history and how this movie perfectly articulates on the subject with witty humor and great thought provoking information. or i could just say "not for fundamentalists of any religion!" i choose the ladder

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Teen, 14 years old
February 27, 2011
 
Check my page for other great recommendations.
I'm not here to give a review because if it shows up on my page its a 5 star movie and so therefore you know what i think about it.

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June 14, 2010
 

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Teen, 16 years old
April 14, 2012
 
Not for the easily offended or the ignorant
Let's get this out of the way in case you haven't read any of the other reviews: if you're extremely religious, chances are, you're going to be insulted. Now, I'm not going to go into my exact views on the Internet because one, they're complicated and two, the Internet doesn't need to know, but I am more religious than Bill Maher. Yet, I still enjoyed this film. Because I still agree with him on a lot of points, like Christians should be more Christ-like and there are inconsistencies and immoralities in religious texts. However, it's not hard to notice there are some inconsistencies in Maher's argument as well, the big one being that he preaches doubt and yet he's absolutely certain that religion in all forms is detrimentral to society. If he preaches the gospel of "I don't know," I think he should be able to put up with moderately religious people. However, now that I'm off my mini-rant, I was still was able to sit through this whole movie on YouTube in one sitting and laugh a lot, and normally I hate documentaries (I honestly have a pretty short attention span, so I kind of walk off during the middle of movies in general). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What may concern parents besides the questioning of religion are the typicals: shots of war, bombings caused by religion are shown, as well as fake blood on "Jesus" during a reenactment. Sex is prevalent such as sex scandals, relgious views on homosexuality, but it mostly isn't shown except for a few short clips from other films. Language... well, if one has ever seen Bill Maher on HBO (or YouTube, as I have), it isn't going to be shocking, but arguably it is not overused. He's not throwing in cussing every other word, or even every few sentences. Actually, for the most part, when he's interviewing other people, he keeps his language civil in terms of profanity. (He actually curses a lot more in a seven-minute clip of Real Time than he does in this movie.) When he's interviewing people, he does use harsh language in terms of confrontation, but if he didn't, he wouldn't have a documentary, would he? Consumerism is limited to film clips (granted, tons of them), as a point to humor. The main drug problem is the "Cantheism," (which Maher willingly participates in as a pro-marijuana proponent), but all in all it's kind of silly. While fanatics may proclaim anything and everything against Maher, saying he's a mean-spirited bully who wants to kill all morals, in actuality he's fairly kind (more kind than he often is on his HBO show) and is just showing what he believes. If you don't like it, don't watch it.

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