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The movie …AND GOD SPOKE is one of the smartest, if not one of the funniest, things I’ve come across in my long career of movie watching. It’s a mockumentry, in the SPINAL TAP vein, about a director and producer trying to make a movie version of The Bible with a minimal budget and almost no clue. Now, for some reason, I’m a big fan of the “mockumentry” genre. I think it’s the supposed realism of the action that I find so funny, but movie’s like DROP DEAD GORGEOUS and the like just floor me and I make no apologies. So naturally, this one was a big scorer in my book. The movie follows the film from its inception to the big premiere and along the way, shows the hell that these guys go through to put together their dream project. The bulk of the movie is the on-set disasters that run the gamut from the actress playing Eve having a huge snake tattoo to having the worst cinematographer ever as their director of photography. Also, if your in the mood for a “before they were famous” kinda thing, Chris Kattan shows up in the last few minutes of the movie as a film-goer interviewed by the documentary crew. Makes good trivia for all you people who are interested in that type of thing.
I do want to point out that this movie in no way makes fun of religion. It simply holds it up to a very satiric light, which I don’t think anyone should have a problem with. If you do, simply re-read the above paragraphs and maybe chill out for awhile. The other thing that I’m a little worried about is that humor is, unfortunately, about as subjective as you can get. What one person finds hysterically funny might inspire feelings of melancholy or remorse in others. How else can we explain the long run of TV’s FULL HOUSE? Someone was watching it… somewhere. So, as with all comedies, you may not like this because it’s not your style of yuks. Which is fine. The humor in this film is kinda brainy; a little more learned than that of, say, DUDE, WHERE’S MY CAR or any other films staring hip young actors in “wacky” situations. So if that’s what you dig, I suggest you go check out the late showing of TOMCATS and steer a wide berth around this one. But I think most of my audience will like this film, due to the fact that most of you have brains. (Unless you’ve stumbled on to my column looking for Boobies You Haven’t Seen. Then you might have a problem.)
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