If you've just left HUNGER feeling like your stomach is still on the floor of the cinema, then we heartily recommend Bill Maher and Larry Charles' hilarous fun-poke at organised religion everywhere, RELIGULOUS, as a pick-me-up.Moving beyond the "killing with kindness" methods of Louis Theroux or "masked mocking" a la Borat, Mayer brazenly ridicules some of the worlds biggest religious organisations and doesn't manage to find a single spokesperson who can stop their belief system from sounding totally ridiculous.
"If there's one thing I hate more than prophecy," explains Mayer in the introduction, "it's self-fulfilling prophecy" - relating modern warfare and terrorism done in the name of religion to the prophecies of doom and armageddon they cling to.
Smarter than Michael Moore's stuff, full of jaw-dropping "did they really just say that?" moments and plain laugh-out-loud funny this is essential viewing for anyone who's wondered what's the point of it all. You'll leave a true non-believer. Louise Steggals
COMING SOON: EXCLUSIVE COMMENT FROM DIRECTOR, LARRY CHARLES!!
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