That was an excellent one.

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Performance artist Rev. Billy hates the consumerism of Christmas, and, like a true missionary, he wants to spread the word --- so he and his choir are all over the back roads of America, trying to avert the Shopocalypse.This entertaining documentary preaches an unpopular gospel: Stop praying to the false gods of Buy Now and Pay Later and find a better way to give a gift. Bleached-blond, white-suited, megaphone-toting Billy, who declares Mickey Mouse the Anti-Christ, is a consummate showman and charismatic leader. I liked his histrionic spiels -- "Everybody's inside a car on the way to a television. We've got an emergency here!" --- as much as I enjoyed his choir's shows in parking lots, malls, Disneyland, and wherever they could find a captive audience. Tidbits about America's spending addiction, and appalling information about Wal-Mart's exploitation of workers here and abroad, underscore the sobering message. What has happened to the humility of Christmasses past, when the celebrants were poor but didn't know it? One man remembered selling bottles and rags so he could make some handmade candles. Another recalled the simple pleasures of receiving apples and oranges along with a few necessities. Now, though, "if you get people small things, they don't appreciate it," says one young woman. What makes this movie sad is that Rev. Billy is NOT preaching to the choir. His jeremiads are often met by a police presence and other signs of hostility. (Did that semi-trailer hit the group's tour bus by accident, or what?) Much like Jesus, perhaps, he tries to bring some insights to folks who are disinclined to examine their own values. (It's stunning to hear a picture-perfect young mother describe how she didn't have the nicer things growing up, so, with her own young children, "I want them to have the name-brand stuff and all the cool toys so when their friends come over they can say they have it.")As the voice-over intones, the average American child spends 40 hours a week with electronic media -- but just 40 minutes speaking meaningfully with his own mom and dad. Regardless of his bona fides as a cleric, Billy's message needs to be heard.

This movie dares to shed light on the pervading seasonal mentality based on the consumption of mostly useless material goods during winter holidays. The delivery of an unpopular message to curtail a shopping tradition that seems to be ingrained into the psyche of our culture, lands the Reverend in more than a few dodgy predicaments. Glorious knowledge, about some of the negative effects of rampant consumerism, reigns down from the pulpit.It takes a brave soul to question a beloved (and ironically, often begrudged) tradition. A freethinker might pass up this movie based on the title, but that would be a mistake. "What Would Jesus Buy" reflects reason, critical thinking and the freedom to question...right up the alley of anyone who values rational thought.

While this film has amusing and humorous elements, it is NOT a comedy and to call it one is to delegitimize it. This documentary explores the commercialization of the Christmas tradition, which it rightly concludes has lost most of its spiritual meaning in favor of gift giving and the shopping that precedes it. The film further engages the viewer to consider the possibility that this obsession with commercialization bleeds into everyday life.While many of the points are made by examining the sermons of the dubiously respectable self-styled "Reverend Billy" and his Church of Stop Shopping, which often makes for laughs, to say it is a comedy does not do it justice. This is a true documentary about a true phenomenon in America and a political organization that seeks to challenge it.

the intention the directors has for this films are quite honorable, but his history of his productions did get me aware that this might not get much to the core like other film makers would do it. keeping his great 30 days TV series in mind but also counting in his MTV production "i bet you will" that opposes his seriousness in any of the matters he documents and also counting in his rather disappointing production "supersize me" i did not had my hopes up high. sadly enough this movie disappointed me none the less. as with "supersize me" after a while i did ask myself what exactly the point of all this was. the main statement gets clear enough after half an hour but the rest of the playtime gets filled with rather pointless stuff and re-repeating stuff that were already shown in this way or another earlier in the movie, so it wears out and gets extremely boring towards the end.