Ben Stein, David Berlinski, Richard Dawkins
In a controversial new satirical documentary, author, former presidential speech writer, economist, lawyer and actor Ben Stein travels the world, looking to some of the best scientific minds of our ge...( read more
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DVD Release Date: October 21, 2008
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March 5, 2009obviously the rub with this film is due to the emotionally charged nature of its subject matter. because of this people keep challenging the fact that this film offers no scientific data to back up any claims, when in fact the film never pretended to be about that. this is simp...( read more)
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November 24, 2008Ben Stein equates himself to Ronald Reagan and the fight for the freedom to explore ID to tearing down the Berlin Wall. Whereas Religulous is funny with lots of colorful clips inserted to make fun of the ideas, this movie has almost exclusively used old black and white clips, ma...( read more)
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November 7, 2008I think he had his heart in the right place. The overarching message: That the scientific community is close minded and you have to kick against the pricks to change it. Most ground breaking scientists had to do that, in face most anybody anywhere that changed any ideas has had...( read more)
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November 7, 2008garbage, doesnt provide any evidence for intelligent design, and only attacks what they call darwinism" which doesnt exist
darwin never tried to explain how life began and he himself said that his theory was incomplete, if you dont agree with evolution then you throw out the sci...( read more) -
April 26, 2008A very informative movie, however, it felt skewered towards a pro-ID mindset the whole time. I never felt that evolution got it's due here.
For one he interviewed people that are pretty much on the complete opposite ends of the spectrum. Scientists who used to be Christians, b...( read more) -
November 19, 2009And yet this won't change anything to make things fair, and those organizations still rule who is right and who is wrong, to question things!!!!
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October 20, 2009Immediately broken into weird analogies with the world war, and that general metaphor of the berlin wall that doesn't really work to highlight anything but the general over hyped nature of this documentary.
If you like being told exactly what to think, this is probably a good wa...( read more) -
September 26, 2009I Liked it's Cheerful Personality, But Loathed it's Arrogant Attitude.
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August 16, 2009Are you kidding? There's absolutely nothing to appreciate about this painfully dishonest, demeaning, crude, and exploitative piece of propaganda. It has as much credibility as one of those stupid 9/11 conspiracy theory "documentaries". Ben Stein needs to go back to doing deadpan ...( read more)
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Critic Reviews
December 4, 2008
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
June 27, 2008
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
This film is an appallingly unscrupulous example of hack propaganda and it sucketh mightily. What's more, I didn't laugh once. full review
April 18, 2008
Claudia Puig, USA Today
This is propaganda, a political rant disguised as a serious commentary on stifled freedom of inquiry. full review
April 17, 2008
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Stein spends the first half of the movie setting himself a trap, and the second half squirming in it. full review
April 16, 2008
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
For a film about American freedom of expression and the necessity for open dialogue, it's hard to imagine Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed being more one-sided, narrow-minded, and intellectually dish... full review
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October 19, 2008This film was terrific. While this film exposes some holes in Evolution theory, the movie was not trying to expel evolution from the realm of science; rather, it revealed the stranglehold on legitimate scientists who DARE to follow the evidence when it leads outside of evolution.
You don't need 20 years of evolutionary study to see something unsavory is going on. -
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May 19, 2008Don't say how stupid evolution is until you have taken a biology class. Otherwise your arguments are null because you obviously don't realize how scientists developed the theory therefore you can't argue against it.
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April 25, 2008
Why is that you guys
"You guys"? I don't think you know enough about me or anyone here to lump together everyone that didn't approve of this film and assume you know who you are talking to. >:)
don't know how the earth was created? You just think that out of nowhere a ceil was made out of thin air it's like u guy's believe in magic!
Actually, no. This is what you think science says. It's just much easier to come up with something ludicrous like "out of thin air" just to bash about something you don't care or don't know about. ;P
I also don't know why it is that evolution is allowed in public schools and we aren't allowed to pray? I think that is very messed up!
Who said you are not "allowed to pray"? Praying has nothing to do with science education in public schools. -
April 25, 2008
Well exactly science is all about "time" anything is possible with "time", this is wat u said (Science changes because, with time) Why is it that "time" is everything in science?
Sorry, I don't know what you mean. That has nothing to do with what I said. Science advances, just compare technology and knowledge from 300 years ago (in History books) with technology today. Why can't the same advance happen with knowledge about how the universe was formed?
yes God created the earth with time but 7 DAYS not billions of years the only reason they (Darwin and whoever else thought of evolution) said billions of years is because they know nobody would live that long, to be able to prove it wrong!
It was not Darwin (nor anyone else who thought of evolution) who discovered the age of Earth.
And, no, this was something obtained and confirmed experimentally. There are evidences from many different types of radiometric dating methods and samples. It was not just made up. -
April 25, 2008Haha... no, it proves nothing, quite the contrary. Science changes because, with time, scientists learn more and more about our (...)
Well exactly science is all about "time" anything is possible with "time", this is wat u said (Science changes because, with time) Why is it that "time" is everything in science? yes God created the earth with time but 7 DAYS not billions of years the only reason they (Darwin and whoever else thought of evolution) said billions of years is because they know nobody would live that long, to be able to prove it wrong!
Oh yeah and I have a question?
Why is that you guys don't know how the earth was created? You just think that out of nowhere a ceil was made out of thin air it's like u guy's believe in magic!
I also don't know why it is that evolution is allowed in public schools and we aren't allowed to pray? I think that is very messed up! -
April 23, 2008
Well I'm a Christian and I thought it was "okay" I totally agree that the big bang theory is inaccurate because science books change every year and the Bible never changes so that just proves that the big bang theory is totally wrong (...)
Haha... no, it proves nothing, quite the contrary. Science changes because, with time, scientists learn more and more about our universe. Scientific knowledge is not set in stone and should never be. In fact, the day science stops advancing, you can consider it dead.
And, there is no single and authoritative book about science (like Christianity has the bible), because there is no single institution or organisation with a monopoly on scientific knowledge (contrary to organised religions that DO have a monopoly on what is considered "canonical documents"). :) -
April 22, 2008
Well I'm a Christian and I thought it was "okay" I totally agree that the big bang theory is inaccurate because science books change every year and the Bible never changes so that just proves that the big bang theory is totally wrong, but a thing bad about the movie is that Ben Stein is a Jew instead of a Christian and some things I disagreed with.
I also thought that how some people would criticize about the Christian faith was unprofessional it's not like we say that people who believe in evolution are idiots which is what some people that Ben Stein interviewed said, I thought that those people just are very rude! -
April 20, 2008
I've read comments filled by negative reviews written by others -- what does the commentator think? Others posted that they are "Not Interested." If they are not willing to watch the movie, what entitles them to a comment.
That's because this debate has been going on forever, it is much older than this film. Many people already know what are the points made in this film, because they have already been seen somewhere else for many years now. And there are already thousands of reviews online (and many from people with no scientific expertise) that say that this film is shit.
Some reviews tell, for instance, that this film associates Darwin with Nazism (and I don't believe these reviews are lying, unless it is a conspiracy too). But if the film really does that, it can be considered very biased and treacherous.
There is no way a documentary can say this bold-faced and be left unpunished. That's just intellectual dishonesty.
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