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"Expelled - No Intelligence Allowed" was a sleazy, low budget attempt to make an end run around the scientific establishment, educators and the U.S. courts to promote creationism. It was "designed with very little intelligence" to argue that a world-wide conspiracy to advance atheism exists among academia. Ben Stein who has played a boring teacher in several TV episodes and in the hit movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", stays true to character and drones his way through this tedious, anti-science and anti-evolution polemic. Stein was a major casting disaster for the producers. As a one dimensional bit-player, Stein simply doesn't have enough screen personality to carry a full length release by himself. Seeing the film in theatrical preview confirmed my worst fears, "Expelled" distorted well established scientific facts and used deceptive interviewing techniques to "trap" some of those who are critical of attempts to introduce creationism into the public educational system. Worse still, was the fact that the film never attempted to explain much about Intelligent Design/Creationism as a viable alternative theory. Finally, if the false representations and distortions weren't reason enough to avoid Expelled, the amateurish production values (dark, ponderous imagery and snail-paced editing) make this film difficult to sit through, even for diehard advocates of creationism. My advice? If you are really intelligent - save your hard earned cash and take a pass on "Expelled".