(AFA)Christian Critic Blasts Talladega Nights' Anti-Christian Content

[pstokely]

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/8/afa/72006c.asp

Christian Critic Blasts Talladega Nights' Anti-Christian Content

By Jenni Parker
August 7, 2006

(AgapePress) - Although funnyman Will Ferrell's new movie, Talladega Nights: the Ballad of Ricky Bobby, finished first at the box office this past weekend, the comedy was not a winner as far as Christian movie reviewer Ted Baehr is concerned.

Baehr, publisher of Movieguide.org, is waving the yellow flag over the film about a dim-witted NASCAR racer with a gung-ho, win-at-all-costs attitude. According to Associated Press (AP) reports, the Christian media reviewer describes Talladega Nights as "a racist, bigoted work that ridicules the Bible Belt, Southern white men, Christianity, Jesus Christ, the family, and American masculinity."

The Movieguide review of Talladega Nights describes the film as "politically correct," in that it ridicules faith, family, traditional values, Southerners, white males and other ideas and groups that are fair game to those who share typical liberal notions of what is "PC." The review also notes that Ferrell's movie contains "lots of blasphemous and borderline laughs," along with "strong sexual references, excessive foul language and strong homosexual content."

[silverweb]

1. LOL

It looks hysterical and I definitely plan to see it!

:evilgrin:

[TygrBright]

2. Well, my goodness...

>>a racist, bigoted work that ridicules the Bible Belt, Southern white men, Christianity, Jesus Christ, the family, and American masculinity<<

I can't think of a more comprehensive laundry list of things that really, really NEED ridiculing. Right on, Will!

heheheheh

Y'know, according to Molly Ivins, in TX there's a defense for murder that goes something along the lines of "the sumbitch needed killin'."

Well, these sumbitches needed ridiculing.

Hallelujah.

appreciatively,
Bright

[Swamp Rat]

7. Damn! You beat me to it!

:D :hi:

[felman87]

3. Hey, I'm Christian

And the movie is great. That reviewer needs to get his head out of his ass. The opinions of one do not stand for the majority.

[WernhamHogg]

4. Best way to find out what the REALLY good movies are

The absolute best way to find out what the REALLY good movies (and tv shows and books and music) are is to read what "Christian" movie critics have to say about them. The worse the "Christian critic" makes the movie out to be, the better the movie usually ends up being.

Plus, I love Will Ferrell and I've wanted to see this movie since I first saw the preview a while back.

[magellan]

5. The previews of this film do absolutely nothing for me

...and I won't be seeing it. But if Bush**'s Christians disapprove, it gets a thumbs up.

[mmonk]

6. While it does poke fun at the Bible belt

which the bible belt has most graciously earned because I live in it and the most ignorant, backward people in the modern industrialized world do inhabit this place, I don't know if it's making fun of Christianity, but its southern more hypocritical strain and in a funny way. I think Mr. Baehr ought not to take himself too seriously or does the movie strike a nerve?