{"id":6664,"date":"2007-02-13T06:02:09","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T11:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=6664"},"modified":"2007-02-13T06:02:09","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T11:02:09","slug":"sarah-silverman-jesus-is-magic-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/13\/sarah-silverman-jesus-is-magic-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jesus_is_Magic\"<\/a>At some point, within the tirade of racial jokes Silverman willingly passes, and within the admissions of peeing in her bed, and having unusual body hair, you have to wonder. If she was an ugly utterly huge woman, would we be okay with this? If a heavy woman went on stage and said \u201cI pooed a little,\u201d would we still laugh? It just seems that just because Sarah Silverman is basically good looking, it\u2019s okay to say this stuff, and get out of jail free because\u2014well, she\u2019s hot. And in some way, she seems to know this, and that\u2019s why instead of groaning, the audience simply laughs. I like Sarah Silverman. She\u2019s funny, quick with the put downs, and is very pretty, but \u201cJesus is Magic\u201d is an uneven balance of skits, musical numbers and stand up comedy, neither of which as uproarious as I would have wished and hoped for.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it just takes a certain kind of audience to understand this film, as all comedians have their niche following, but I just found it all so flat. Especially the musical numbers. Silverman doesn\u2019t take herself seriously, she doesn\u2019t seem vain, and she has a pretty voice, then why does the number \u201cYou\u2019re Dying\u201d come off so utterly bland, even in the face of her pig tails and evident charisma? She mocks how using certain jokes would make her sound \u201cedgy,\u201d but she seems to be drowning in her own irony. She just blurts out anything to gauge audience laughter and be deemed outrageous! Using Chinks, Nigger, and calling midgets midget\u2019s really feels like Silverman is anxious for a laugh. And she\u2019s anxious for controversy, because people these days are pussies, and they\u2019ll cry about anything, a la bad (read good) publicity.<\/p>\n

Take for example her point that strippers should be role models for little girls, and, her rather dull exploration of her boyfriend dumping her being accused on his low self-esteem. \u201cJesus is Magic\u201d really isn\u2019t anything new, and that\u2019s why it\u2019s so damn disappointing. Silverman insists on singing every ten minutes, Silverman insists on bringing up race for no particular reason, and Silverman goes for many fail safe\u2019s. Lesbians, black people, the Holocaust, the Nazis, and even recruiting her comedian friends to appear every so often, it\u2019s reaching. And that\u2019s sad, because Silverman is great. She\u2019s hilarious, she knows how to put folks to shame with her insults, but she can\u2019t quite grasp what she wants with \u201cJesus is Magic.\u201d<\/p>\n

She wants to be vulnerable and vulgar, likable and disgusting, and it shows as she shoots out a race joke and then apologetically harps on it, and then we cut to rather odd skits that pretty much aren\u2019t funny when Silverman repeats them again on-stage. Silverman can never stick to one formula long enough to make \u201cJesus is Magic\u201d feel cohesive and coherent. So, it\u2019s uneven, pretty unfunny, and just a waste of seventy-five minutes. I love racist jokes, I love poo jokes, and hell I love a good song or two\u2026 seriously. But damn, Sarah Silverman just didn\u2019t know what she wanted with \u201cJesus is Magic,\u201d and it shows. It\u2019s a brutally disappointing and unfunny movie for such a hilarious woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At some point, within the tirade of racial jokes Silverman willingly passes, and within the admissions of peeing in her bed, and having unusual body hair, you have to wonder. If she was an ugly utterly huge woman, would we be okay with this? If a heavy woman went on stage and said \u201cI pooed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[219,700,766,885],"class_list":["post-6664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-musical","tag-performance","tag-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}