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Reviews Counted:95
Fresh:61
Rotten:34
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: Silverman's brand of humor is dirty, offensive, and, judging from this film, very, very funny.
Theatrical Release:01-08-2008
Synopsis: Sarah Silverman is a comedienne who doesn't just court controversy, she positively wallows in it. Memorably putting in a brief yet discomforting and highly memorable appearance in THE ARISTOCRATS,... [More]
Not to everyone’s taste but her legions of internet fans won’t be disappointed. Anyone who can come up with a line like ‘I don’t care if you think I’m a racist, I just want you to think I’m thin,’ is okay in our books.
Top CriticBad-taste material, delivered with an insouciance that looks easy until you see lesser comics trying it, is what she does best: killer gags about seven-year-old lesbians and Jews killing Jesus.
Top CriticSilverman's full-on approach works because she unflinchingly examines these themes with a disarming sweetness.
Ultimately, it's difficult to resist…especially when she comes out with lines like: "I don't care if you think I'm racist - I just want you to think I'm thin."
By the end you'll feel like a bored parent trapped in the front row of the school play.
It's uneven and the relationship between your sense of taste and your sense of humour will determine whether you enjoy it, but at its best, Jesus Is Magic doesn't look out of place alongside the best stand-up concert movies.
Top CriticHit’n’miss gags that target 9/11, rape, the Holocaust and Aids (“If God gives you Aids, I say, ‘Make Lemon-Aids’!”) prove that Silverman is a gifted performer but that sometimes busting taboos isn’t enough in itself.
Top CriticHer comic persona is that of a clueless and politically incorrect hipster who says terrible things without being aware of their shock value. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.
Skip this one and check Sarah Silverman out on stage for real.
Her high-wire stage performance is unmissable all the same, particularly when she's taking aim at such untouchable sacred cows as Martin Luther King. "They only mention the good stuff! He was a litterbug."
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A quotable compendium of offensive remarks
The key to her delivery is about sly surprise, a 'did-she-really-say-what-I-think-she just-said' technique.
The big screen isn't the best venue for her "ain't I cute?" shtick and shock tactics... but Silverman is funny and, more often than not, so is the film.
Every time Silverman gets going on a promising tack, the movie pauses for a momentum-killing diversion.
Silverman throws her carefully crafted persona a proper, and hilarious, coming-out party.
I admire her cunning wit, her sensual appeal, her satiric creativity, her canny technique, her sensual appeal, and her courage. I'd watch her sit-com anyday.
It's all in the timing and Silverman has it %u2014 she's in total control on the stage, keeping audiences off-balance with jokes so outrageous there's barely time to recover before the next one lands.
An HBO special dragged kicking and screaming to (barely) feature length, it's a riot... but probably shouldn't be in theaters.
If 'Jesus is Magic then God is, without a doubt, a Woman: Sarah Silverman.
April 27, 2007:
Sarah Silverman to Host MTV Movie Awards
She might not be all that big of a movie star, but I bet most of you will still be pretty psyched to learn that comic Sarah Silverman will be hosting this year's MTV Movie... More...
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