One of the funniest films you will ever see

Rating: 10/10 (20 September 2001)

A lot of reviewers have highlighted what is so great about this film, it's satire. Satire is often funny, but never as consistently funny. This is gut wrenchingly funny as opposed to funny ha ha. No stone is left unturned. Religion is the but of the joke, but the fundamentalists, socialists and ignorants all get lambasted in a severely underrated film.
The concept of Jesus as a chancer and a man who happened to be in the right place at the right time is pure genius. The utilisation of modern attitudes and language works wonders as this historical tale unwinds and the immaculate conception is explained away in perhaps the most original thought on this matter. There is joke after joke after joke. You can't catch them all the first time and it takes repeated viewing to ascertain and appreciate the complexity of the intelligent writing.
Beyond the jokes are the messages. Messages that are so obvious and relevant in today's society, but messages that fall on deaf ears every day.
Those that say this isn't funny or isn't their funniest piece of work they just don't know. They're not there. They're missing a critical piece of art and historical social commentary that's ever been committed to film.
Genius.