Konterr Brilliant and touching

ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Neddy Merrill Not funny ha-ha but funny no-one-heard-me-snicker-at-that-right? With Don Rickles now eight-five years old, Sam Kinison ironically dead at the hands of 16 year old drunk driver and Andrew "Dice" Clay's shallow talent reservoir completely exhausted, a gap exists in the market for highly offensive race-based comedy. This movie presents Sarah Silverman's staking out of that ground. Silverman produces none of the show-stopping belly laughs that Kinison could in the years before cocaine and alcohol convinced him that singing along to early 70's rock songs constituted entertainment. Viewers will find little in Silverman's act worth sharing with coworkers at the water cooler next day (Kinison's fans still remember certain of his material). This is not to suggest that the movie lacks entertainment value or that some lines don't elicit a minor titter. Rather, Silverman's talent is in getting the audience on her side with smart, politically incorrect observations and then leading them to a place so improper that they their fear overwhelms their smug hipness. She also does an excellent job of using her innocent good looks to amp up the shock value. Her attempt to provide value for money by including some videotaped vignettes along with footage of a Los Angeles show is largely misguided as the skits, like her ill-fated MTV show, feel forced. Some of them may have worked had she inflicted them on real audiences - Borat-like (for example, an extraordinarily offensive song sung to supposed nursing home residents may have actually been funny if Silverman actually went in and assaulted the elderly in a real nursing home). In short, far better stand-up comedy videos exist out there (most of George Carlin's stuff) but Silverman brings an original voice to shock-comedy audiences.

jinxmap Appalling... in a school of wittering idiots, Sarah Silverman rules in hell, apparently. Her weak co-option of human rights should make the most noble of us shudder. SS humour includes such dissociative as MLK and farting, AIDS = lemonaids and the charming imagining of "wouldn't the Jews have been better off if there were Blacks in Nazi Germany?" Her cruelty knows no bounds, especially to the elderly, Blacks, Ethiopians, her parents, her dead grandmother, everyone wins! She likes Fiji Wadder! If you, as I, were watching this DVD expecting a cinematic début of a rising talent and found yourself bored... try this trick: Use a mental computer find-and-erase and for every instance of the words "um", "like", "gay" and "oh my God", renders the entire performance half as long... Score! Or in her own words, "My sh*t... it belongs offstage."

gavin6942 Narrative digressions on sex, race, politics, and more from comedienne Sarah Silverman.I love Sarah Silverman. I love her jokes, her songs, her face. So it saddens me that this is supposed to be her big break for a DVD. Even with Liam Lynch directing and helping write the song, it just never excels.Some really good material appears on this movie -- some of her best jokes, and at least one really good song ("You're Gonna Die Soon"). But there is a lot of filler. The backstage scenes are not funny and serve little purpose, the opening and closing really are not funny, and the closing song is mildly amusing but more childish than clever. Worst of all, twenty minutes of jokes are stretched to 45 minutes due to a lot of pauses and silences. What we hear is great, but we have to wait too long to hear it. Cutting the video down in time, or adding more jokes would really have done wonders as far as keeping me laughing.But there is hope. She has her own show now, which is doing well, and has one of the most memorable scenes from "The Aristocrats". So Sarah Silverman is just getting started, I think. Her next DVD, should there be one, will likely blow us all away.

zippyflynn2 Before I heard her I knew she must be doing something right because I heard people were offended by her, particularly by the title of the film "Jesus is Magic". At the first quick glance I thought it was a serious title because all the evangelical Christians I've heard and met believe that to be the case. Once I quickly realized it was a satirical joke I read some reviews. Natuarally, a lot of people were offended. Well it doesn't really take much to offend religious people, especially the orthodox, because anything that remotely approaches the truth and/or reason, contradicting and threatening the shaky foundation of their illogical and poorly constructed fictitious beliefs enrages them and causes the most hateful, violent reactions. The vast bulk of the wars and offenses committed on other peoples is based on or at least justified by religious beliefs, frequently just the persecution of those with contradicting religious beliefs. (Of course it's usually just based on the greed and power lust of the leaders but they play the religious card because they know that opium stirs the too frequently intentionally ignorant masses.) And since evangelical Christians are getting more and more power in the US and closer to fulfilling their dream of a Christian Taliban I became intrigued and gave the film a viewing. (Fortunately, the completely religious state does not exist yet so Ms. Silverman can make these films and others can watch them without fear of persecution and prosecution but give some time to some of the evangelical federal judges George W. has installed to start "reinterpreting" the laws to see if that doesn't start changing soon.)It's an entertaining film. Not brilliant but humorous and entertaining. She doesn't have the intellectual appeal of someone like George Carlin or even Bill Hicks nor the great depth of Lenny Bruce but she does have a nice act and fulfills the role of what adult comedy really should be, telling the truth in a fashion that people will hear it, that otherwise don't want to be bothered with anything "negative" (i.e: preferring the BS over reality). Of course, since she is telling the truth in a fashion, often with her character of a typically ignorant, arrogant woman who uses being cute as her veneer to gloss over her shortcomings, she is offending people who hate to admit their own shortcomings mirror what she is doing or saying. And, especially now in these tenuous times of a dangerous swing toward fundamentalism, we need those who poke fun at a humorless, intolerant group who insist on imposing their beliefs onto others. And before anyone starts flying off the handle claiming I'm anti-Christian, don't worry, I find all fundamental religious practices and other forms of orthodoxy equally destructive and dangerous, especially to the rare, disappearing freedoms left in the US and elsewhere. This may not be a fantastic film but it is a necessary one as it gives some hope to believers in individual intellectual pursuits that our disappearing freedoms aren't completely gone yet and still may have a chance to survive their recent assault. So we can continue things like the pursuit of legitimate scientific inquiry, which is always outlawed in religious states as facts contradict "faith": one only need look at the many, many years of meticulous research by some of the most brilliant minds being trashed in favor of "faith based" education to realize the horrifying dangers taking place right now. I hope more people get angry at this film and it starts to wake up the opposition who have been laying down to the will of someone with some crackpot belief in fear that they might offend someone's "faith". We need more people like Sarah Silverman who say "offensive" things about religious faith and other sacred subjects. Good job, Sarah, keep it up!