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I was fully expecting Alan Rickman to walk away with "Dogma", even with such an impressive cast. And he comes close. But what I absolutely did not see coming was just how funny Jay is in this movie. I've always preferred Silent Bob, but Mewes is a riot. This isn't my favorite of the View Askewniverse. It's long-winded and the incessant conversations on scripture mythology get old. You can tell Kevin Smith was exorcising some self-doubt here, but by the time the gang gets trapped in the bar, I'd mostly checked out. I can't hate on a movie that's given the world Buddy Christ, but at a certain point, I was missing that first half pretty hard.6/10

An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loop-hole and reenter Heaven.This is a much-loved part of Kevin Smith's universe, with many people considering it his best film. For me, I always thought it was his worst. After the strongly-scripted trilogy of "Clerks", "Mallrats" and "Chasing Amy", suddenly we start getting some strange things like a giant poop monster. Really? That right there negates all the clever ideas you tried to add to the script.This is also the point in Smith's career where the budget was getting too big. The films got bigger than they needed to be and the casts got more famous. And why? This did nothing to improve the core of Smith's work, which does not succeed on larger scales.

Dogma is a very funny movie and criticizes a lot many of our societies's taboos,the catholic church and many of the facts that we consider right. Everything, of course, with lots of jokes and irony.In the present days, with the popularity of the famous book called 'Da Vinci's Code', we can see many similarities,like the fact that the bible could be changed for the people who translated it, for example. Or the strange fact that they don't show all the years of Jesus's life,opening the controversial doubt about his relationship with Mary Madalene, and the possibility of having kids.But the coolest thing in Dogma, are the silly things,like Alanis Morissete playing God, Metraton saying he is 'anatomically like a Ken doll', and the thirteenth Apostle,never included in the Bible because he is black.I recommend this movie for everybody who wants a good time!