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Starring:
Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Chris Rock, Salma Hayek, Jason Lee, George Carlin, Alan Rickman, Jason Mewes, Janeane Garofalo, Kevin Smith, Bud Cort, Jeff Anderson, Guinevere Turner, Alanis Morissette, Alanis Morissette
Directed By:
Kevin Smith
Written By:
Kevin Smith
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Dogma (1999)
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Movie Review by AJ 
June 5th, 2006
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So I guess this is how Kevin Smith tops Chasing Amy. With a wicked, dark intelligence, this irreverent religious satire is both hilarious and deeply meaningful; Smith didn't just make a lot of jokes at God's expense. Despite the enormous amount of Catholic Church protestation upon the film's release, Dogma proves that Smith knows more about Catholicism than most who were protesting and sincerely, genuinely loves God. I mean, this is a movie about two disowned angels who screw around with nuns' minds at the airport trying to get back into heaven, a neurotic Catholic as Christ's last remanining blood kin, Alanis Morisette as a silent God with a penchant for skeeball, a black 13th Apostle named Rufus, and perennial stoners Jay and Silent Bob as prophets. Who would expect it to be so moving? Smith could've easily made this another ridiculous Hollywood sitcom, but since when has he ever been known to do that? As always, his dialogue is brilliant (when Ben Affleck's Bartleby has his epiphany the ensuing conversation with Matt Damon's Loki is a thing of beauty), and the laugh quotient is high, ranging from the lowbrow (a crap demon) to the highbrow (Alan Rickman's wish-he-could-get-drunk angel Metatron). This also proves to be his best picture artistically...the introductory scene of Jason Lee's demonic Azrael early on almost warrants a rewatch in and of itself. Truly Smith's finest work, and probably the best religious satire ever made.
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