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Title: Lord, have mercy!
Review: To be quite frank, the only reason I would give this movie even one star is for Victor Garber's brilliant portrayal of a modern-day Jesus. But even with him, this musical is nothing but a dreary piece of Christian propoganda. The lack of subtlety disgusted me, along with the insulting way in which evil was portrayed as being jokingly punished with - oops! - an eternity of Hell. The grating giggles and irritating jolliness with which the fates of mortals were blindly decided made me wonder whether I was in Hell already. The Sunday School script was worse than an episode of "Seventh Heaven", and the simpering seventies soft-rock hymns were nauseating. It makes me wonder whether Jesus himself wouldn't have over-turned a few of their tables. Unless you feel you would enjoy what seems like an end-of-bible-camp, anti-"heathen", Christian "Rock" songfest, give this one a wide berth.
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