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Breathtakingly stupid movie
I accept that for most people whether or not you liked the film depends on whether or not you're a creationist.
My experience was that it's just plain bad filmmaking. The movie thinks it's being irreverent and edgy when all it's really being is an embarrassingly inept homage to Michael Moore-style muckraking.
I hope that even creationists are wincing at the film's staggeringly irrational message that the theory of evolution is to blame for Nazism.
If you want to believe in Intelligent Design and are looking for some kind of boost to your morale on the subject, look elsewhere. This film doesn't even attempt to explain what ID is (which would be important to the film's message, wouldn't you think?), doesn't examine whether or not the "persecuted" researchers (were they really?) have anything genuinely important to say about evolution, and it doesn't (by a mile) make the case that ID is being unfairly treated by the legitimate scientific community.
This film was a waste of time and eight bucks in the multiplex and it's going to be a waste of time and money in your home.
Expelled is worth watching only in the way that "Plan 9 from Outer Space" is - because sometimes a movie is so painfully bad that you watch it to have fun with how awful it is.
July 2008 · Movies and TV