Saved! (2004)

I'm disappointed. Started out great -- they got the whole fakey Christian culture down so well…but went to the same old places that all teen comedies with a message go. The antagonist was too much of a caricature. We see her praying ALONE -- so it's apparent that we're supposed to believe that SHE believes what she's doing is right...but there's no way she's fooling herself to that degree -- especially when she goes from violently destructive to contrition in the space of about a minute at the end.

It's just way too cartoonish to be taken seriously -- and too poignant to laugh very hard. The affection for the subject matter should have gone deeper...if it had, this would have been an incredible film. Instead, it opted for cheap dismissiveness and a tidy denouement. Felt like Mean Girls all over again.

B-