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Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic (2005)
Not Funny At All
This movie is hardly funny at all. In addition to offensive jokes about ethnic groups, religious groups and even the Holocaust, Sarah often uses gratuitous obscene language that adds nothing. Many of the jokes are also lame. At one point, Silverman says, "When God gives you AIDS, make LemonAIDS." Explain to me how that is really funny or particularly creative. It's a lame joke delivered by a smirking idiot.
Contrary to what one writer says here, there are no "insights" into how Sarah Silverman creates her routines. Nor are there any insights into her real life backstage, or her relationship with her sister. Silverman plays everything for a spoof. It's all an act! That's okay, but even her backstage jokes about real people are pretty lame and fairly lewd. The few clean and innocent jokes in this movie turn out to be the funniest ones, but they are very few.
Kohayagawa-ke no aki (1961)
Baloney!
It is a bunch of baloney to say that END OF SUMMER is far behind Ozu's other efforts. I have seen most if not all of Ozu's most acclaimed works, and END OF SUMMER is the best one I've ever seen. It even surpasses TOKYO STORY, which many scholars claim is Ozu's best masterpiece, one of the greatest movies of all time. For my money, END OF SUMMER is one of the top five foreign movies of all time. The beautiful photography is sublime; the movie contains some of the funniest things in any Ozu movie; and the ending is one of the most heartbreaking, most superbly visualized endings ever put on celluloid! I just can't say enough good things about this movie. There may be another Ozu movie I haven't seen that surpasses this one, but I sincerely doubt there's more than one, if there's even one.