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Cowardly, cynical satire that I tired of in ten minutes, Quentin Letts reviews The Book of Mormon
There is not much subtlety to The Book Of Mormon, a much-hyped American musical which has landed in the West End. Its satire is insistently US college-campus adolescent. I tired of it after ten minutes.
The show takes the mickey out of clean-cut Mormon missionaries who travel from Salt Lake City to Uganda to spread the word. Ha ha, Mormons. How liberal America sneers at these harmless folk and their Charlton Heston view of Biblical history.
The Mormon kids expect Africa to be like Disney’s Lion King. Encountering Aids and civil war, they learn they must break an important rule of Mormonism: They must lie.
In the hands of an Evelyn Waugh this idea might work but the writers – who also created TV’s South Park comedy – pummel the thing to death.
The opening number shows Mormons ringing American doorbells and selling their faith. When they reach Africa they are baffled because the shanty huts do not have doorbells.
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Fuck off, reviewer.Ha ha, Mormons. How liberal America sneers at these harmless folk and their Charlton Heston view of Biblical history.
It's not harmless, and sneering is the least it deserves...
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He should watch Orgazmo! 
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Closet Mormon reviewer?
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Damn, I hoped it was the book, not the musical.
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I really want to see this.
JimC wrote:Fuck off, reviewer.Ha ha, Mormons. How liberal America sneers at these harmless folk and their Charlton Heston view of Biblical history.
It's not harmless, and sneering is the least it deserves...
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Creators about the show:
One of the numbers:
Seriously, Daily Mail, as usual, can fuck off.
One of the numbers:
Seriously, Daily Mail, as usual, can fuck off.
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Ah, the Daily Hate Mail comes through as usual.
Great Venn diagram. I'm going to get that printed out and posted somewhere where people can see it.Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Related...
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Funny thing about Matt & Trey: They admire the hell out of Mormons.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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And they take the piss out of everybody.Robert_S wrote:Funny thing about Matt & Trey: They admire the hell out of Mormons.
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Yeah, you can see it in the interview with them. It's what makes the article by the mail all the sillier.Robert_S wrote:Funny thing about Matt & Trey: They admire the hell out of Mormons.
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