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[which_chick]

Film review: Saved!



It's a lot better than I thought it would be for a film in which Macaulay Caulkin (no, he's not dead yet, just his career) appears.

Plucky Christian girl gets knocked up trying to un-gay her gay boyfriend, finds a new, straight boyfriend and has baby and prom on same night. Yay! Everybody lives happily ever after.

It has its moments, though, particularly some sparkly dialogue early on. (I particularly liked the "Emmanuel Shooting Range: 'An Eye for an Eye'...") If this movie were a wine, it would be an uncomplicated, young wine with some fruity notes, somewhere under the twenty-dollar mark.

Comments

[not-your-real.livejournal.com]

Wow. How did you ever end up seeing this?

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

There's this queue feature on Netflix. Also, it's not exactly a pro-religion movie, at least not as rah-rah Jesus as some things. The nice people aren't particularly Christian, or they're Christian and gay, which apparently isn't very orthodox to the sorts of people who send their children to Christian school. Also, the chick from Weeds and her cop boyfriend who gets killed are "the mom of the pregnant girl" and "pastor/principal of the school". I thought that was pretty funny.

Macaulay Caulkin, just in case you were wondering, is the handicapped (wheelchair) little brother of heroine's evil "best frenemy". He is generally way more amusing than I would have thought possible after having seen "Home Alone". Also, has v. delicate features for a guy, feature which makes him look totally gay, more so than gay boyfriend.

(Film actually uses names for these people but I could give a shit what those names were. The unwed conceiver was named "Mary." Lack of originality, there, if you ask me. It's been done.)

[gwangi.livejournal.com]

That's the one where Hillary Duff throws a bible at the main character, right? I liked that one.

[ornery-chick.livejournal.com]

Heh. This is one I was wanting to see, too. It looked fluffy but probably kind of heartwarming in a Valleygirl sort of way.