saved!

so last night i took pizzapants' recommendation and watched the effervescent and mostly silly --- in a good way --- 'saved!'. the film resolves around a young lady (jena malone) who, in an attempt to save her boyfriend from being gay, has premarital sex with him to prove he does indeed like girls (he doesn't).

well i'm sure that would be all and good except for two things: jena's character is a born-again christian, and she winds up preggers. all this and the other quirky characters in the film really make for a fine comedy...

first, we have hilary fay, the ubermensch of born-againity. she goes on a campaign to have the rebellious (and jewish) cassandra become saved, designing ever so stupid activities she hopes will make cass deny satan and join the fold. which is the christian school they all attend, a real hoot. in the beginning of the school year, they have an assembly where the principal attempts to rap for christ -- 'jesus is in the house!' for example -- with extremely comic results. this is a joke of a school and it shows in everything that happens in it. the principal/pastor himself is quite a character, a hypocrite having an affair with jena's mom and breaking his marriage vows.

now, jena originally is in hilary fay's group, but when cassandra and roland (a handicapped boy, brother to hilary fay and NOT born-again) hook up and find out jena is preggers, they take her under their wings and help her hide the pregnancy, quite effectively. cass and jena get into many a snafu at school, and also suffer repurcusions at the hands of hilary fay towards the end of the film.

really this is quite funny, along the lines of 'mean girls' but in a little nicer venue. not as backstabbing and biting, but fun nevertheless. parts of it seemed unrealistic -- could she really pull off the pregnancy thing in real life? well, i guess people have, but that seemed far fetched, esp when she attends prom in all her preggers glory and has a very big tummy. so that was a little more than questionable. but it was all for fun, so who cares.

in all, this isn't the funniest film in the world, but it is definitely one of the funnier ones i've seen lately. i thank pizzapants for recommending it. if anyone has other recommendations, please let me know!

until next time, i remain your ever faithful titivillus...