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38 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversFanaticism is Dannelly's target, not faith. That's what makes his film a keeper: It sticks with you.
- 70VarietyDavid RooneyVarietyDavid RooneyThe spirited comedy ultimately kneels before an all-embracing deity, which could appease the God squad provided they get through all the wickedly funny zealot-bashing that comes first.
- 70L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorThough Saved! is funny and irreverent, Dannelly isn't just taking potshots at fundamentalism. He creates a viable world, then riddles its surface piety with underground transgressions that call into question not Christian belief but slavish, intolerant religious practice.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe director-cowriter, Brian Dannelly, has great fun tweaking the way American Christianity has been born again as a commodified, suburbanized, pop-saturated belief system.
- 60Film ThreatFilm ThreatSaved! is just a sweet and funny movie that starts off with bite but settles into an honest feeling of happiness and acceptance for all types of people and their choices.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterThis comedic jape delivers some sharp jabs at obvious targets, namely the boosterish excesses of American religiosity.
- 60The New YorkerDavid DenbyThe New YorkerDavid DenbySaved! is a minor work, yet it has a teasing lilt to it, and to make it at all took courage and originality. [31 May 2004, p. 88]
- 50The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsIf director Brian Dannelly were interested in taking his film into the realm of camp, the gag might have worked, but as is, it simply gives the impression that he doesn't quite know what he's talking about.
- 38ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe level of humor is sit-com-ish at best and the film's dramatic elements are bland and uninvolving.
- 30Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonAn overwhelming portion of Saved! is wall-to-wall Jesus-Jesus-Jesus talk, closer to dead air than social spoof. At times, the screenplay (including Mary's voluminous narration) has the monotonous cadence of a recruitment sermon.