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And God Spoke is an occasionally gut-funny spoof of low-budget moviemaking. Producer Steve Rappaport and director Michael Riley have been given carte blanche to make a multimillion-dollar epic based o... read more read more...n the Old Testament. One day into production, they blow their budget and are forced to cut corners with a scythe. Rappaport and Riley must now scout about for cheap locations in the LA area, and make do with whatever stars they can afford. The funniest sequences involve Soupy Sales, who has been cast as Moses, crepe beard and all. Lou Ferrigno, Eve Plumb, and film critic Michael Medved (co-author of The 50 Worst Movies of All Time) also have significant cameos in this likeable effort. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 22 min.

Directed by: Arthur Borman

Release Date: September 23, 1994

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DVD Release Date: July 22, 2003

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  • October 27, 2011
    Wonderfully funny Canadian mockumentary chronicles the efforts of two film partners who envision creating the next epic on the scale of The Ten Commandments and instead wind up with a disaster of Biblical proportions! Perfectly inappropriate stunt casting adds to the fun,... read more and the commercial fate of their film delivers one of the most perfectly conceived endings of all time.
  • February 27, 2008
    Hilarious. One of the first mockumentaries I saw years after Spinal Tap, so it was bound to stand in it's shadow. Years after, now that there are mockumentaries coming out all the time I'm certain this could be looked upon more favourably. Still, a very funny look into a big b... read moreudget disaster.
  • April 5, 2007
    This movie is absolutely hilarious. This does for biblical epics what Spinal Tap did to Rock and Roll. The sheer lunacy and absolute believability of the hapless filmmakers make this one of my favorite comedies of all time.
  • September 22, 2006
    Featuring a premise that probably sounded a lot better on the page than in the finished movie, "And God Spoke" is a mockumentary about two theologically-challenged filmmakers with a dream to adapt the entire Bible into a feature film. ("Our first script was, like, 2000 pages. We ... read morehad to cut it a bit.") Naturally, everything quickly goes to (ahem) hell, with some of the most crippling obstacles being the penny-pinching studios executives who want to cut Jesus' part from the final project; an incompetent cameraman with a penchant for overly dark shots; violent arguments on set about the number of disciples that Jesus actually had; full-body tattoos on actors who are supposed to be nude; a product placement deal with Coke that requires Moses to carry around a six-pack of soda; and a method-acting Christ who refuses to step out of character for any reason. Although the satire of the film industry is dead-on and sporadically hilarious, the movie is a bit too listless and padded to truly engage. A good try, but only moderately successful.

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Emanuel Levy
August 19, 2011
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

There is humor but it's too sane and too safe to qualify the film for an eccentric midnight movie Full Review

Karina Montgomery
November 15, 2004
Karina Montgomery, Cinerina

check this one out!

Luke Y. Thompson
May 19, 2004
Luke Y. Thompson, New Times

Amusing mock-doc that sends up the self-delusions low-budget directors often force themsleves to labor under.

Ken Hanke
March 1, 2004
Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Mel Gibson should have studied this.

Kurt Dahlke
November 25, 2003
Kurt Dahlke, Apollo Guide

Clever humour, a lack of pretension, and crafty weaving of actual reality throughout the plot delivers a bounty of laughs minus the pandering of mainstream Hollywood satire. Full Review

Christopher Null
July 12, 2003
Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com

Genuinely funny Full Review

Scott Weinberg
July 26, 2002
Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com

A pretty damn hilarious mockumentary about the pitfalls of filmmaking.

Caryn James
May 20, 2003
Caryn James, New York Times

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Jonathan Rosenbaum
January 1, 2000
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

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Robert Faires
September 9, 2002
Robert Faires, Austin Chronicle

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