RELIGULOUS

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Bill Maher takes a shooting-fish-in-a-barrel approach to questioning the validity of religious beliefs, and comes up with a cinematic breath of fresh air.

Director Larry Charles ("Borat") follows Maher around the world to locations like Megiddo, Israel and to the Vatican, where Maher got tossed out for filming inside while he tried to track down the Pope.

Maher questions Christian parishioners in North Carolina, his own mother and sister, ex-Mormons, Hasidic Jews, Muslims, a Catholic priest, and other religiously-connected figures in a sincere attempt to discover how their beliefs were formed and more importantly how they are sustained.

The movie contains plenty of well-researched points of its own, as with a revelation that the Christ myth existed in several different variations of Mediterranean mythology 600 years prior to the story made popular in the Bible.

"Religulous" (rhymes with ridiculous) is a funny, debate-provoking movie that dares to question fundamental beliefs that have been foisted on societies in order to enable brutality and prejudice in the name of a higher power.

It's a call for humanity to grow the fuck up.

"There is no Easter Bunny."

Rated R. 101 mins.