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12/08/07
What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)
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Reviews Counted:53
Fresh:32
Rotten:21
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: WWJB is an eye opening doc about consumerism that manages to be both funny and informative.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
Synopsis: From producer Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) and director Rob VanAlkemade, “What Would Jesus Buy?” examines the commercialization of Christmas in America while following Reverend Billy and the... [More]
Director: Rob VanAlkemade
Reviews for What Would Jesus Buy?
I really like the message the movie has to say... I just wish the whole package were good enough to recommend as a gift to give yourself instead of another hour and a half at the mall.
12/07/07
While you can appreciate what the choir and the film are trying to say, too often they get bogged down in trying to spread that message. They also take themselves a little too seriously at times.
12/07/07
My nomination for a new Christmas perennial: What Would Jesus Buy?
12/07/07
Watch it, then cut back on your credit-card purchases and say Hallelujah! to Reverend Billy.
12/07/07
What Would Jesus Buy? is must-see viewing for anyone who thinks of Christmas as just a mall and its night visitors.
12/06/07
WWJB? encourages viewers to think outside the big box of super stores such as Wal-Mart.
12/06/07
If you're going to live by the word of the Church of Stop Shopping, a smart first step would be to avoid buying tickets to this film.
12/06/07
What Would Jesus Buy? is a wonderful film. It’s a must-see pre-Christmas, or at any time of the year.
12/03/07
Possibly the feeblest entry yet in the anti-corporate theatre-of-muckraking genre.
12/01/07
What Would Jesus Buy? is paved with good intentions...
11/30/07
My take is that it should be renamed the Church of Stop Yelling at Me Because You've Made Your Point.
11/30/07
An entertaining and eye-opening Christmas documentary.
11/29/07
Fake collar or not, he makes a pretty good preacher.
11/29/07
It's a wickedly effective indictment of America's consumer compulsion, our mindless shopping and the multinational corporations controlling it all.
11/29/07
The choir might have more impact if they didn't seem like a traveling theater troupe led by some odd blend of an electrocuted Quentin Tarantino and Poison's C.C. DeVille.
11/29/07
In a strange way, "What Would Jesus Buy?" might actually be the most heartwarming holiday movie out there this year.
11/29/07
All the film seems capable of proving is that performance art makes a dubious vehicle for social change, and sustaining a joke past its breaking point is no less stultifying in the service of good.
11/29/07
If Gary Busey ever played Elmer Gantry, he'd look like Reverend Billy, the real-life fire-and-brimstone preacher who embarks ''on a mission to save Christmas from overconsumption."
11/28/07
One of the producers of What Would Jesus Buy? was Morgan Spurlock, and the film is very much in the spirit of his Super Size Me.
11/28/07
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