paskin_texas The movie itself is absolutely hilarious as you follow the escapades of these clueless boys who dream of stardom. Two brothers hold auditions for a third boy to join their band, and from the word go, you forget about how these guys can take themselves so seriously and get a laugh-a-minute! The songs have some good morals to them, when you just listen to the lyrics - but these morals get a healthy mix of laughter, especially when it clashes with Proud Pharisaical Mormon values. I'd recommend this to anybody - whatever their faith! Just don't judge all LDS by what you see in these witty satires! Good use has been made of the DVD format - I could sit and watch the menu options for a half hour at a time, as Will vainly prattles on. There's a good selection of deleted scenes - mostly tirades of ab-libbing. Again, these are worth a barrel of laughs as you see how serious Everclean is about themselves. The LDS movie scene just gets better! Don't miss out just cos you're not LDS.

lastgamblemusic I was invited to an early screening of the movie about four months before it was released. I had to watch the film and later fill out a packet on my thoughts. It was THE hardest thing to sit through on earth. The show just crawls by, and you quickly begin wishing you were dead. The thing is, there are two types of Mormon films. The good ones with actual good stories, and the crappy ones that just plain stink. Saints and Soldiers, now there is a good movie. But, with these wannabe-comedies, the writers and the actors just try too hard. Basically, they try to be funny when they are not. No wonder why there is such a small target audience for these films; they're filled with 'inside jokes' that aren't funny to begin with, and they just try to poke fun at average things. It's the story that makes the movie, and the stories for these movies are just weak. I bet you can guess what my packet looked like when I was told to fill it out after the movie. ;)

DrGandolfo If so I'm GLAD I live in Lindon (two towns to the North).I saw the movie at a 9:40 showing in the Provo mall. My friends and I sat behind two other dudes. A couple came in and sat on our right during the previews. Another guy came in and sat to our left. That was all that were in the theater. During the first 10 minutes of the movie the couple walked out, and a minute later the guy to our left walked out. One of my friends was happily snoring next to me, so my other friend and I amused ourselves by throwing popcorn on him.I read the other reviews of this movie and cannot believe people are praising it so much. This movie is not very funny (it does have a couple of fun lines, but it's not worth the effort).I give it a 3 out of 10 (not a 0 because it at least is not dirty).

Chainring I attended the premier last night. The movie started out with a bang (perhaps due to pre-premier excitement). The audience laughed for about 15 minutes, then most of us spent the rest of the time fighting off sleep. This movie can not be compared to _Spinal Tap_ or any of Guest's work, unless you want to say _Sons of Provo_ is a wanna-be gone awfully wrong. It just fell flat, it died, it was painful. The story went nowhere, the jokes were bland, even if you were a Mormon and could get all of the inside jokes, it felt like a waste of time. There were two redeeming qualities: Kirby's acting was spot on! And the songs were very clever (for an LDS audience only). So, my recommendations... Avoid the movie. And if you are Mormon, buy the music CD.