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What Would Jesus Buy?

2007 · 1h 31m · PG Documentary
Directed by Rob VanAlkemade

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A serious docu-comedy about the commercialization of Christmas. What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt!

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The good reverend and his crew do their best to get busted at assorted corporate shrines (Disneyland, the Mall of America), but their media-driven antics serve only to underline Spurlock's add-water-and-stir approach to political documentary.

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
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What Would Jesus Buy? is must-see viewing for anyone who thinks of Christmas as just a mall and its night visitors.

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
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WWJB? encourages viewers to think outside the big box of super stores such as Wal-Mart.

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh

What Would Jesus Buy? is paved with good intentions...

Ted Fry, Seattle Times
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Fake collar or not, he makes a pretty good preacher.

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

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