What a beautiful movie!

Boring, long, and too preachy.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Narrative digressions on sex, race, politics, and more from comedienne Sarah Silverman.I love Sarah Silverman. I love her jokes, her songs, her face. So it saddens me that this is supposed to be her big break for a DVD. Even with Liam Lynch directing and helping write the song, it just never excels.Some really good material appears on this movie -- some of her best jokes, and at least one really good song ("You're Gonna Die Soon"). But there is a lot of filler. The backstage scenes are not funny and serve little purpose, the opening and closing really are not funny, and the closing song is mildly amusing but more childish than clever. Worst of all, twenty minutes of jokes are stretched to 45 minutes due to a lot of pauses and silences. What we hear is great, but we have to wait too long to hear it. Cutting the video down in time, or adding more jokes would really have done wonders as far as keeping me laughing.But there is hope. She has her own show now, which is doing well, and has one of the most memorable scenes from "The Aristocrats". So Sarah Silverman is just getting started, I think. Her next DVD, should there be one, will likely blow us all away.

Stand up performer attempts to be the next Lenny Bruce and isn't.Sarah Silverman is the bombing comic on the old Johhny Carson show, mysteriously given show business carte blanche a la the bizarro world. Is she offensive? Who can even say anymore. Pushing the boundaries of good taste in the year 2007 means a young woman can now stand on stage and tell "in depth" bathroom jokes one after another without clearing the house. Example:Sarah: Cause now I'm at that point where I'm comfortable peeing in front of my boyfriend, and you know its kinda nice...now Im going to try it in the bathroom. Not just A bathroom joke, but perhaps the Oldest bathroom joke in the catalog. Eyes on the prize ladies, lol. To be fair, the show isn't all 80 year old jokes and vaudeville/burleque. She has a few funny lines and even at her embarrassingly low moments, Sarah Silverman remains an engaging and attractive on-stage personality. Her overt charms notwithstanding, the question that kept running through my mind was not, How is "I hope the Jews killed Jesus, I'd do it again!! considered funny, but "Who exactly is this chick and 'Why exactly is she on my television?' Who exactly is Sarah Silverman other than a look alike for her namesake semi-successful not brother, Jonathan Silverman, and the next Mrs. Jimmy Kimmel? Is there such a dearth of female comics that this is what distills out of the machinery? I don't think so. I think Sarah only gets to do and air a bad show like this or get booed off the stage at an awards show because.... boyfriend Jimmy K has got a lot of juice! That is indisputable. Just as Sarah's nonstop passage on the Bad Comic Forgottenville express was abruptly interrupted as soon as she starting dating Mr. Kimmel is likewise not in dispute. That's Hollywood, and it ain't gonna change. Now if seeing the not particularly funny girlfriends of talented people act out in a feature length video/stand up thingamajig is your idea of a good watch, by all means, have at it, this movie is for you!! I'd personally prefer to watch someone with a little more talent. Or to take a page out of her act, Sarah Silverman successfully debunks the 'all Jewish comedians are funny' stereotype.

Basically a stand-up session enriched by skits. Silverman is exceedingly funny, capitalizing on her beauty, the sweet blankness of some of her expressions, especially mild puzzlement as the audience reacts to some of her over-the-top lines. She has a filthy mouth and a filthy mind and says the most outrageous things as if respect and decorum were annoying nuisances to be swept away with a comment or a laugh. Somehow her riffs on racism and other tricky subjects pass through offensiveness and come out the other side as brilliant satire of society's often hypocritical observance of "tolerant" values. Some of the skits are a little tedious—the framing device with her sister about putting on a show is strained and overlong, and the folksinger at the old-folks' home and the grandmother's funeral bit is overlong, sapping its potency like so many Saturday Night Live sketches did by staying past its welcome. A couple of the songs are really very funny—Silverman can sing, and her band (the Silvermen) is pretty good. It's a nice touch having them wear their hair in two ponytails, like hers in some parts of the movie. And the stand-up is often brilliant and always entertaining. Much laughter ensued, as well as a few OMGs.

Whether one likes this movie largely depends on which camp one falls into--the "I get she's sending up all the stereotypes by using them" camp or the "she's just another stereotype comic" camp. Rest assured, she is indeed engaging in satire, but at the same time one can't help but feel that this nonetheless reinforces stereotypes as much as it deconstructs them.More to the point, she's only sporadically funny. When she hits on something, it's great, but otherwise it's a lot of her poking fun at the naive pretty girl image while innocently unleashing something wickedly taboo. It's a clever act, but it's also blatantly obvious and wears thin after not too long.Jesus is Magic is a decent film and to a large extent what one gets out of it depends on how one appraises the originality and impact of her style. Once one gets past the controversy, though, Sarah Silverman is largely hit or miss.