DOGMA
Kevin Smith’s “comic fantasy” about angels and demons in contemporary New Jersey is mostly an excuse for him to vent about the Church and many of its rules. Smith, 29, is a budding talent with a couple of low budget hits (Clerks, Chasing Amy). He can’t be accused of anti Catholicism because he is a Catholic, with a clear respect and fondness for God and good things like justice. But he has a ton of complaints, few of them original (sexism, racism, ultra-legalism).
Dogma is dimly plotted and overly long. It suffers from stereotyped concepts, political correctness and too much talk. Only slacker Gen-Xers are likely to love Smith’s dialogue, which is wall to wall expletives, or the comedy style that leans heavily on irreverence for what was once sacred. But few movies are so intensely interested in God and religion, and there are nuggets of wit amid the juvenilia.
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