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Actor: Heather Matarazzo, Jena Malone, Macaulay Culkin, Mandy Moore, Patrick FugitBrand: MOORE,MANDY
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-05
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Saved!
DVD Review: It's OK.
Summary: 3 Stars
Ok, I'll admit that it was pretty good, Although it wasn't really that funny. Jena Malone was definately sympathetic as Mary. Eva Amurri seemed like she was trying too hard, but that kind of fit with a character that was the only obvious non christian in the group acting out against the norm. Patrick Fugit was good as a level headed person who could see right through most hypocritical situations while still remaining kind. Mandy moore did a pretty good Job as well with what she had to work with, considering her character was pretty much pointless. (More on that later)
Mary Louise Parker was pretty much your standard detached mom. Lines liks "I don't have to worry about you, do I? Nah, I don't have to worry about you" pretty much deflated any sympathy she could have instilled. Martin Donovan phoned in his performance. I can imagine he sat in his trailor in between takes reading "Dianetics" by L. Ron Hubbard. Macaulay Culkin surprised me. In fact, his lines were pretty much the only lines that were funny in the movie (although also sarcastic).
Veronica: Someone like Hillary Faye would have been killed in my country! (China)
Hillary: Yeah... Where would you be then? (To Roland)
Roland: China?
Before I go any further, I want to say that overall it's a pretty good movie. It was entertaining, sometimes thougtful, many times sympathetic. And that was good. However, I still have a problem with the way christians are portrayed in the movie.
Right off the bat, I have trouble believing Mary would have believed she should have sex with Dean to rescue him from Homosexuality. She's been a christian since 3? She hasn't been taught that fornication is wrong? She believes Hillary's unbiblical teaching of "restoring your Spiritual and emotional virginity". And believes it out of the context of having been raped?
Better than that, they didn't even use a condom.
Dean's gay magazine is discovered by his parents, who are portrayed as folding almost instantly, sending him to mercyhouse after just one day! No logic in them at all. And pretty much no sympathy for how they must have felt either. The audience just gets to say "well, they were stupid".
The audience is given the opportunity to laugh at people worshiping God. The song that the christian Jewels did was a really good song, and normally something like that would be used as a break or breather in a comedy. Instead, it looks silly. This is the fault of the director, whether he knows it or not. It was a moment where the audience could have seen the intimacy of worship, but instead they get to laugh. From the students waving thier arms in unison to the selfish prayers of each person to Pastor Skip's pointless "get your Christ on", the entire thing Paints worship as something only selfish christians do.
Also, in the student body we see all types of people. We see little person, some overweight people, but the only one who gets a voice is Tia, and she's not really a very sympathetic character. She tries too hard (I saw Jesus in my fish tank), suggest shooting Mary, at the end the only thing she cared about was that stupid Tiara... and when the time comes and we see Hillary Faye as this overweight, ugly(?) person, the whole thing falls flat and has no resonance whatsover. Why? Because there was no Irony in it at all. Other than Hillary Faye was this uppity self righteous christian who got what was coming to her.
And about Hillary Faye: They needed a villain, so they created one... That was utterly pointless. In then end, you had no sympathy for her at all. She wasn't even included in the final snapshot!
Now, about prayer... Prayer is presented in a bad light (even on the website I see now as well, more on that in a minute). Mary prays, and her answer was fornicate with Dean. Hillary Faye prays, and her answer was vandalize the school. (And no, it wasn't a surprise, they telegraphed the fact that Hillary did it.) People pray at the school pep rally, and what they pray for is Selfish things. Cassandra prays to find Roland, which is the only time it's presented in a good way. The rest of the time? Hillary screaming in triumph because her prayer for some (in real life non existant) christiand band to play at the prom comes true. A prayer meeting at Hillary's house to pray for the removal of Dean's "[EDITED]ry".
I just surfed into the official website and when you click for cast and crew, a flash appelet comes up for Hillary's prayer circle with the flyer of Dean, and a box that says "click here when done praying". Why does anyone feel that is funny?
Brian Dannely may not realize it's there, but I didn't miss the imagery of Jesus being beheaded at the end of the movie. It's as if he's saying that Jesus' teachings are no good. Soon after that, mary's whole lesson is "you gotta feel it". That's not the message of Jesus Christ. Her "feelings" were what got her in trouble to begin with. In fact, her mother brings up feelings... "why would God give us these feelings?" Well, who said God gave them to you? In fact, the movie contradicts itself by showing all through the movie that it was each person's feelings that got them into trouble, but in the end, "you just gotta feel it".
Not a very good lesson at all. That's not even a good humanist lesson. Every person whether they are christian or not learns as the get older that your feelings often lie to you. You don't need the bible to point that out, it's a fact of life. But the message at then end of Saved! is "you just gotta feel it".
It was entertaining as long as I was able to remember that it was only a movie. Unfortunately, if anyone were to take it seriously (which admit it or not many people do take movies WAY too seriously) then they would get a picture of chrisianity that is wrong.
Description of Saved!
Good girl Mary (Jena Malone) and her best friend Hilary Faye (Mandy Moore) are at the top of the food chain at American Eagle Christian High School. But all that is about to change in this "subversively funny" (USA Today) teen comedy about hype, hypocrisy and high school. Also starring Macaulay Culkin and Patrick Fugit, Saved! is "a boldly hilarious satire" (Rolling Stone)!Classic teen comedy mixes with cunning satire in Saved!. Fervent Christian Mary (Jena Malone, Donnie Darko) believes God wants her to save her gay boyfriend by sleeping with him. But he gets sent to an anti-gay indoctrination camp while she ends up pregnant--which starts to drive a wedge between Mary and her snotty best friend Hilary Faye (Mandy Moore, How to Deal). Meanwhile, they're both interested in the son (Patrick Fugit, Almost Famous) of their Christian school principal (Martin Donovan, Trust). Saved! respects faith but gleefully mocks the excesses and absurdities of contemporary organized religion, particularly its suburban, let's-speak-the-language-of-the-kids manifestations. The actors, including Macaulay Culkin (yes, from Home Alone) and Mary Louise Parker (Fried Green Tomatoes), play their parts with sincerity, which makes the fusion of humor and heart succeed. A delightful movie. --Bret Fetzer
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