Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable

ScoobyWell Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

Holstra Boring, long, and too preachy.

Breno Bacci As a comedy lover, I often rate titles in such genre more lovingly than others. This may be true for "Jesus is Magic", but here I feel more self-assured of my evaluation than I normally am.To save on a lengthy explanation, it suffices to say that this Jewish girl has an unique taste for comedy - and I mean it not only when compared to her contemporary comedians (some of whom I like better than her); but to all the comedy I've set my eyes on on my not-so-short life.I'm writing this review a few weeks after a guy named Bernie Goldberg, a pundit on a channel you won't probably know about in the future, used the word "edgy" referring to another successful Jewish comedian of our time, Jon Stewart. The reason why I mention this is because, due to this, I don't feel very comfortable to use this word to describe Sarah's performance on this particular movie. Sarah herself used the word on the movie, and I noticed a few of my fellow reviewers did the same.But now that I think about it, I guess I'm more comfortable with the word. After all, in the present day, if any comedians deserve to be called edgy, those would be Mr. Leibowitz and Ms. Silverman. But people following trends should be aware.For some of us with a sense of humour, "edgy" may also mean disturbing or disgusting. Sarah goes a step too far not once or twice, but I'd say throughout the whole movie. And I thank her for that.And I also thank her for keeping the fire burning, for those of us who believe there isn't a single thing in comedy that's off-limits. Not even my mother's death. If you can't laugh about it, life's going to become ugly really fast.P.S.: My mother isn't dead. Of course I don't want the person I love the most on Earth to die, but that doesn't mean I can't joke about it. I know most of you who ended up here will get me, but yet I'm explaining, and that makes me feel really stupid. And even that's funny!

moonspinner55 Sarah Silverman--with her gummy smile, coltish stance, and clear voice which bubbles up from deep within her chest--wants to come on like a huggable shock comedienne, yet she's more performance artist than stand-up personality. Cleverly and carefully (one may say 'precisely') dropping taboo words into her stories, Silverman gets laughs by pretending to lead the audience in one direction and then undercutting those expectations with a surprising low-keyed zinger. Silverman doesn't overwork a punchline--which are often nestled in the context of her stories anyhow--although she returns to older topics too often. Also, she relies far too much on pseudo-cute facial expressions and aw-shucks body language to soften the blows of her words, though the topics (9/11, the Holocaust, AIDS, vaginal sex versus anal sex) are tiptoed through in a facetious yet frisky manner. The fantasy edits, imagining Sarah in different manners of celebrity, work well, better than the purposefully-wooden prologue and epilogue with friends. Still, one expects to laugh more with such touchy material. Silverman is so laid-back and blasé, it's clear to viewers she is giving them a made-up creation. Other shock comics manage to make audiences feel as if they are hearing something true, but this personality that Silverman is displaying (playful, naughty, grounded, unaffected) is unabashedly artificial. This is entirely deliberate on Silverman's part, yet is tends to render her act phony: smoke and mirrors prodding at the national funny bone. *1/2 from ****

jinxmap Appalling... in a school of wittering idiots, Sarah Silverman rules in hell, apparently. Her weak co-option of human rights should make the most noble of us shudder. SS humour includes such dissociative as MLK and farting, AIDS = lemonaids and the charming imagining of "wouldn't the Jews have been better off if there were Blacks in Nazi Germany?" Her cruelty knows no bounds, especially to the elderly, Blacks, Ethiopians, her parents, her dead grandmother, everyone wins! She likes Fiji Wadder! If you, as I, were watching this DVD expecting a cinematic début of a rising talent and found yourself bored... try this trick: Use a mental computer find-and-erase and for every instance of the words "um", "like", "gay" and "oh my God", renders the entire performance half as long... Score! Or in her own words, "My sh*t... it belongs offstage."

ray-280 What a waste.Here we have a physically stunning, brilliant, witty, pointed comedienne with a clear understanding of politics, and what does she do with it? Nothing of lasting value. Maybe she's saving that for later in her career, but as her looks go (and they will, as she's in her thirties), no one will be around to listen if she waits too long.The routines were funny, she's competent when it comes to comedy, but she is pure establishment, never crossing establishment lines, engaging in "acceptable unacceptable" humor that is cutting edge only on the surface, but she remains a political lightweight despite presenting herself with an air of a political relevance when she has none. Yet. This could change at any time she chooses to let loose, but she's still on the side of the tracks with the wrong people, appearing offensive but not really striking at our truest of raw nerves or sparking any meaningful debate or change. She is capable of all of this and more.What could be the female Lenny Bruce is more like the female Steve Martin. Enjoyable, but missing her destiny every time she refuses to confront the genuine wrongs in society with a serious streak that separates the historically relevant comedians (like Dennis Miller) from the bubble-gum comedy which is hers, even if the gum has a more complex flavoring than most.In this show, you'll hear one "offensive" joke after another that isn't really offensive, and while it speaks the unspoken, it doesn't show us any new sides of ourselves, nor move us towards any possible change or revolution. Sarah Silverman is too beautiful and too brilliant to leave anything less as her legacy.Memo to Sarah: get serious, get loud, get in the faces of people in power, and let them try to combat a hottie who is unafraid of changing the status quo. She could be the voice of her generation if she wanted to. I suspect she's on her way there anyway, but it is clear from this work that she has not yet arrived. It'll be amazing when she does.