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This film is directed by Larry Charles and produced by Bill Maher and it deeply examines and satirizes religious belief and organized religion.

Bill Maher and his team explore a range of views on the various world religions by traveling to sacred religious destinations such as Jerusalem, the Vatican, and Salt Lake City. He interviews believers from a variety of backgrounds and groups, including a former member of Jews for Jesus, Christians, Muslims, former Mormons, and Hasidic Jews.

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film a rating of three and a half out of four stars, and wrote: "I report faithfully that I laughed frequently. You may very well hate it, but at least you've been informed. Perhaps you could enjoy the material about other religions, and tune out when yours is being discussed. That's only human nature."

Lions Gate Entertainment released the film on DVD February 17, 2009. Special features on the DVD include a commentary with Bill Maher and Larry Charles, deleted scenes and extended Bill Maher monologues.

For more information visit their website religulousmovie.net

Reviews from Top Critics

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    He's a bombs-away provocateur, and in Religulous, Maher's blasphemous detonation of all things holy and scriptural, he doesn't really pretend to play fair. He's like Lenny Bruce with an inquiring mind and a video camera. Read full review

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    You may very well hate it, but at least you've been informed. Perhaps you could enjoy the material about other religions, and tune out when yours is being discussed. That's only human nature. Read full review

  • 75
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Those with a taste for irreverent humor and clear-eyed analysis will find it funny, enlightening and disturbing. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Robert Koehler

    To the film's credit, Maher never engages in Michael Moore-style gotcha tactics, but rather asks questions that raise more questions, in the form of a Socratic dialogue. To believers expecting a blind hatchet job, this will prove both thought-provoking and a bit disarming; skeptics may be surprised (as Maher is) by the occasionally smart replies to his queries. Read full review

  • 63
    Chicago Tribune | Michael Phillips

    It's a fairly entertaining bash, with a travelogue vibe established by director Larry Charles ("Borat"). It’s also smug as all hell. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    Much of Mr. Maher's film is extremely funny in a similarly irreverent, offhanded way. Some true believers -- at least those who have a sense of humor about their faith -- may even be amused. But most will not. Read full review

  • 50
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    The problem with the movie, whose title compresses "religious" and "ridiculous" into a single word, isn't that it milks more than one sacred cow but that it does so with minimal subtlety and intelligence. Read full review

  • 50
    Village Voice | J. Hoberman

    Bill Maher's one-man stand-up attack on religious fundamentalism is a dog that has more bark than bite--a skeptical, secular-humanist hounding of the hypocrites, amusingly annotated with sarcastic subtitles and clips from cheesy biblical spectacles. Read full review

  • 33
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Keith Phipps

    Maher's too smart to make a movie this dumb. Read full review

  • 30
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Though he claims to be a seeker, someone who "has to find out" why believers believe, Maher sets out not after answers but cheap laughs that preach, so to speak, to the converted. Read full review


 
 

 

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