From the director of Borat and the producer of Fahrenheit 9/11 comes a new documentary about the silliness of religion that looks to leave audiences with the slightly icky feeling of the former and the permanent depressive state of the latter. Religulous, which opens in theaters October 3, follows Bill Maher as he travels around making fun of religious people. A tour of crazy religious people sounds hilarious, but if the agenda, as it seems from this trailer and the tie-in slick parody website, disbeliefnet, is to open American minds to the idea that religions have too much power, couldn't they have gotten someone more likable than Maher to deliver the news?
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I'm not saying that crazy religious people are not the most entertaining documentary subjects, but crazy people in general are the most entertaining documentary subjects. It will be refreshing if Maher manages to suppress his smugness and display some genuine compassion for those who get their particular brand of self-deception from fairy tales, but either way, I'll watch any documentary that involves televangelists speaking in tongues.
