| Dogma | | Cast : | Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Linda Fiorentino | | Director : | Kevin Smith | | Studio : | Columbia Tri-Star | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | November 12, 1999 | | DVD Released Date : | July 05, 2005 | | Language : | Spanish (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 07, 2005 | | Summary | What a horrible movie | Content
 | Not clever, not funny. With the amount of talent in this movie, how could someone miss so badly? This movie is aboslutely one of the worst I have ever seen. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 29, 2005 | | Summary | Strangest movie on Christ I've ever seen. | Content
| This is a GREAT movie! Even if you're a Catholic (my father) this is a hilarious movie, and I don't understand why people are getting so paranoid about this movie. It is meant to be enjoyed, not analyzed throughly for some 'hidden' meaning. The plot is strange enough. Two angels, Loki and Bartleby, who were exiled to a place worse than Hell (Wisconsin--to be pricise) have been sitting around for eons doing nothing but watch civilization pass them by when suddenly, they get a paper in the mail giving them a way to get back to heaven. Excited, they go for it, wanting to go back to the home they've been kicked out of for more than a millenium.
What they don't know is if they try to get back to heaven, they ruin existence and life on Earth as we know it. And that's where Bethany, the Catholic who works in an abortion clinic and believes God is dead but still goes to church, comes in, with a mission from God to stop the to angels from getting back to heaven. Accompainied by two stoned prophets (poorly done Jay and hilirous Silent Bob), the disgruntled thirteenth apostle, and a muse who works in a strip club, and frequently shadowed by a grumpy arch angel, Bethany begins her quest to stop the world from becoming nothing, learning things about herself and the world she didn't know before. This is a silly movie. When I read the script, I thought it was completely brilliant, mainly because it was so out of the normal Hollywood plot loop that it was funny. And then I saw the movie.
The acting definetly suffered in Dogma, even with a star-studded cast, due to the fact that Kevin Smith was directing. If they had a different, more experienced director, the movie would have been far more popular and even better than it already is. But as it was, Kevin Smith was directing and acting and it kinda spoiled everything. However, the points made up in Dogma, some so silly it was hilarious (the thirteenth apostle, a demon made of poo), and others more in touch with reality (God as a woman, Jesus was black), make it a movie worth seeing.
So, my long-winded speech being almost over, I'd mainly like to say that this is a great movie. It grows on you. The first time I saw Dogma I was sitting there majorly dissapointed because the acting wasn't nearly as good as I had hoped, but then when I watched it again, I realized what a smart, funny, and completely different movie this was and started to like it. I suggest it to anyone. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 20, 2005 | | Summary | i dont come to movies for religion... | Content
| people say this movie puts down catholicism, but it really pushes forward all religion in general...a few funny jokes throughout |
| Rating | | | Date | June 03, 2005 | | Summary | Pretentious Garbage | Content
| This shallow film is but pretentious garbage for the new age crowd who think they've found a profound message in their little crystal beads and yoga books. Although somewhat creative in terms of plot, the script and acting are about as shallow as the pompous message it seeks to propagate.
The story follows two fallen angels played by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon who know a way to return to heaven without God knowing it; thereby proving Her imperfect and bringing an end to Her supposedly perfect creation. Yes, to keep up with modern liberal trends God decided to have a sex change operation for this movie. A woman named Bethany (Linda Fiorentino) is called upon by two stoner prophets (Smith and Jason Mewes) to take her safely to her destination to stop God's errant angels. The blunt messages passing off as subtly symbolic are laughable (i.e. the new Virgin Mary working in an abortion clinic.) Wow! What creative powers of imagination! Maybe they should have made their points more subtle such as Jay and Silent Bob using condoms for example or Chris Rock as the 13th apostle being not only married but polygamous. Why not have the female God get a divorce while they're at it? But since this screenplay is an attack on Christian hippocricy, why name Matt Damon's hesitant protagonist character 'Loki' (a mischevious Nordic god having nothing to do with Christianity) while virtually every other character has a biblical name? To appear creative I suppose. Perhaps the most irritating was Alanis Morissette as God: as if her singing isn't bad enough we have to watch her act too? Yes, of course! Let's have another retro-60s hippie high on acid passing as God to show how pious the tasteless fashions and mannerisms of that period were! C-o-o-o-l d-u-u-d-e! The fact that she was silent throughout was the one good thing about her acting in this film. The only good performance in this film was by Alan Rickman as the voice of God but his role lasted only 10 minutes (fortunately for him as it avoided a lot of embarrassment.)
I am agnostic and, quite frankly, I'd rather sit through 2 hours of Catholic mass than watch this phoney attempt at intellectualism and spiritualism. Spare me! The people involved in this film have too little of an intellect to work on such grandiose themes: they need to stay with silly little things worthy of their childish talents like 'Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back' for example. Avoid at all costs! |
| Rating | | | Date | May 23, 2005 | | Summary | You can't include Jay & Silent Bob and not expect comparison | Content
| I loved Kevin Smith's first two movies Clerks and Mallrats. Chasing Amy was okay, but a little too much of a downer in the end.
Now get this, Dogma seems to be the movie that is the line in the sand for a lot of people. The majority of Clerks/ Mallrats fans didn't care much for Dogma, and vice-versa for the Dogma fans (but not completely, a good number of Dogma fans hadn't even heard of Smith's prior movies).
It's been said that this movie slams the church, but it's just a slanted view on Catholisism that hard liner religous fanatics might find offensive. A lot of the comedy in this movie THINKS that it's offensive. I remember bits on the news discussing Dogma's ramifications, but it all just felt like manufactured drama and debate to me (i.e. publicity stunt).
Throwing Jay and Silent Bob in the mix really messed up the flow and 'believability' of it all, especially when the first three movies had them tied together to a specific area.
What I don't get is where Smith got all this Hollywood clout. His previous films were good, but were cast with several before-they-were-stars. In Dogma, suddenly all these big names appeared in the credits, and would the general audience found the movie as good without the injected star-power? Did he make a deal with the devil? |
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