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...Like Gibson's "Passion," this one covers the last hours of Jesus' life, and alludes to earlier events by flashbacks. In the Gibson films they are visual, here verbal: in long testimony during the trial, witnesses describe some of Jesus' miracles, sermons, claims to royalty or divinity. Happily fashioning a cat's cradle from the tangle of religious and secular politics, the movie pins most of the blame on the Romans, whose second in command tells his soldiers, "Be sure that it is technically the Jews who make the arrest, and that he is brought to the house...
...from screenwriter Ian Driscoll, is piquant: Jesus H. Christ joins forces with a priest to rid Ottawa of a vampire coven. He's an activist Savior ("If I'm not back in five minutes, call the Pope") who kicks beaucoup d'ass. He's closer to a standard Mel Gibson hero than to the hero of the new Mel Gibson movie. But the comedy is slack, the song lyrics feeble, the pace torpid. Note to cultists: A movie may be incompetently acted and amateurishly shot. That doesn't mean you have to like...
...Like Gibson's Messiah, Parker and Stone's Jesus has Father issues. In the millennium episode (314), young Stan Marsh asks Jesus, "Why does God hate me?" and the Savior mutters, "Huh? He doesn't hate you, he hates me. He's gonna let me be crucified again." Jesus is also not always comfortable with his job. At the end of the episode, when a booing crowd comes to its senses, the elementary school chef says, "Jesus, we're sorry. Can you ever forgive us?" He puts his halo back on and replies, "Aw heck. Do I have a choice...
...Jewish kid is Kyle Broflofski, whose presence allows "South Park" to address the Jewish question that has dogged Gibson. In a great episode (410), Kyle's three friends - Stan, Kenny and Cartman - are prepared for their first Holy Communion and scared crapless that they'll go to hell if they don't confess all their sins. Kyle, equally, panicked, wants to confess too. But the very conservative priest, Father Maxi, informs Kyle solemnly that he and his hapless kind are condemned to wade forever in the wretched lake of fire. His colleague, the more liberal Sister Anne, is shocked...
...intensity of Cartman's lyrics: "It appears you are actually... in love with Christ." Cartman shrugs: "Well, what's the difference? You love Christ, you're in love with Christ - I mean, what the heck is this?" What it is, is a profession of faith more lurid than Gibson could have dreamed, as in the uptempo spiritual, "Body of Christ," with these sensuous lyrics...