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I grew up in a strict seventh-day adventist family all of my life. My family on both sides had been adventists for a few generations, and my great-great grandpa even founded a large adventist college. My point in telling you that is so you’ll know how well I relate to this movie and the characters in it.

The story is of a few teenagers in a strict private christian school (I went to only private adventist schools, or home school), and their trials and tribulations of growing up and making mistakes. Like getting pregnant, finding out you’re gay, finding out you’re a hypocritical, judgmental bitch, etc. A lot of the characters are stereotypical, but it’s probably not something you see every day unless you frequent a church or private christian school. Regardless, I could totally relate to nearly every character in the movie, stereotypical or not, and could almost say “Yup, that’s Pastor Bob, or that person is just like Sandy”, etc.

The movie is funny throughout, but also brings up some good questions about organized religion, God, forgiveness, etc. It really does a good job at pointing out how silly and fake organized religion can be and how hypocritical people can be. Not to say that all religious people are that way, or that all religions are that way, but it just poses some interesting questions. It does a good job of showing that some people get so caught up in appearing “holy” to others and “doing the right thing” that they end up being so judgmental towards the “sinners” that they lose track of what religion is supposed to be about in the first place. Then you have the “rebels” that aren’t preachy, and they end up being the true christians in the end. That in itself is a stereotype, but hey, it’s still true some of the time, and not bad for a hollywood movie.

It brought back a lot of memories from my high school days, the school assemblies, bible classes, classmates, etc. I thought it was a great movie and pretty well written. It posed some questions without being too preachy, and had a few laughs for good measure.

Another good movie to check out if you have seen this one and liked it, is Dogma. It’s a Kevin Smith movie (Mallrats, Clerks, Chasing Amy) about religion, but with a whole lot more swearing. And demons. :)

Rating: 4/5

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i actually saw this last week, being christian and around church a lot now i almost felt like i should be offended in places but wasnt because its so representative of people that i know or know of. the only thing the scares me is the skewed theology presented throughout the film and the fact that most people won’t take the time to check it out for themselves. i also would’ve liked to have seen SOMEONE on the christian side of things not be an ignorant, fake, close-minded sheep. the heart of it is an interesting point that i liked though.

yeah that’s why i mentioned there is a lot of stereotypes in the movie and everything. but it does make you think even if it does it by poking fun a little bit. :)