I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

A series full of debunking trough shallow paper thin arguments, based on "common sense" and led by the ideals of pen and teller.Troughout the series you will find times you agree with them and times you don't, but none of it is presented with very convincing arguments but full of riducule.I guess it is though provoking and helps you think deeper about the world around you, i just think penn and teller aren't the right persons to lead their audience in this endevour. As magicians they are masters of social engineering, redirection and reframing, and it shows in this series.As entertainment it is passable i guess. I doubt most people see it as such though, but rather use it as validation of their allready held beliefs. In that context it pretty much is useless information full of questionable sources and shallow reasoning and logic. It isn't any worse then anything else on tv though, i guess this is as good as it gonna get.

Penn & Teller: BS is at times a very funny, informative show. So long as it keeps to its stated purpose of debunking pseudoscience and charlatans, it is very enjoyable. Penn and Teller are the perfect hosts, combining humor with devastating and obscene invective. Unfortunately, they have a tendency to throw in their political views to a point where they come across as charlatans themselves.As a pop culture vehicle for skepticism, the show is without parallel. The episode on vaccinations and autism fears should be required viewing for every new parent. Similarly, episodes on cryptozoology, PETA, and circumcision, among other topics, are hilarious even as they make serious points.However, the show suffers from a tendency to inject libertarian political points in as if they were the gospel truth. For example, I tuned into one episode entitled Ground Zero expecting to see a blow by blow debunking of 9 / 11 conspiracy theories. (The episode on conspiracy theories in Season 3 discussed 9 / 11 truthers, but not in a huge amount of detail.) Instead, I got twenty-five minutes of Penn Jillette complaining that the government was too incompetent to supervise the 9 / 11 memorial, complete with one commentator saying that evil had attacked us. Am I watching Penn and Teller, or Fox News?Even on points where I basically agree with the hosts, the show at times overreaches with humor that undermines their point. For instance, in the episode on PETA, one of the commentators is Ted Nugent, who is shown using a dead deer to curse out PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk. Watching that was enough to make even me consider vegetarianism.After several seasons, the show does seem to have experienced issues with continuing to find relevant topics and interesting interviewees. Part of this is going through the most obvious targets for debunking in the first few seasons, but there is also the issue that as the series has become more well known, they seem to be having difficulty getting people to appear on it. The vaccination episode in Season 7, for example, was only able to get an obscure anti-vaccination group, one suspects because the more well known exponents hung up on them.Similarly, their episode on dolphins dealt with figures so far into the fringe that they hardly seemed worth the effort of debunking. Just when the episode looked like it would become interesting, with an interview of a woman who put expectant mothers into the water to give birth with dolphins, it became clear that she had never actually done this.In spite of all this, the series is definitely worth your time. If it weren't for the libertarian propaganda, it would easily rate an 8.

The episode on second hand smoke was just a personal rant against what they saw as a curtailment of rights. They pulled the same logical fallacies, gave opinions as if they were facts, used predictions based on opinions and other tactics they accuse others of in other episodes. I'm glad to hear they had to retract this episode later (though I wish that had been on this disc to see). Sometimes I wish they were more thorough or stayed on topic. (Mocking a survivalist camp didn't really address the issue of doomsday prophets).Other than that, it's an interesting show. Well worth a watch, but like anything else *(and like they seem to imply) take it with a grain of salt.

I love this show. It's far from perfect, but it is indeed entertaining and more accurate than not.Almost as amusing to me as the show, however, are the people who find it so offensive and feel that they must attack it. Reading the submissions, I have taken great pleasure in chortling at the pre-literate scrawlings of those who hate the show the most. The majority of the negative comments are quite nearly illegible.To all of the misguided people who think the show is "right wing": Penn and Teller are libertarians (note the lower case l, it's important) and should never be referred to as "right wing" by anyone with a clue. (l)ibertarians find left and right to be equally pathetic and almost universally wrong.P&T are entertainers who perform 6 nights a week in Las Vegas where they make a great deal of money. Their income from Showtime is not going to come close to their Vegas earnings, so if you were thinking they're selling out, you're wrong and will need to start the critical thinking process over again.Yes, they employ vulgarity, nudity, and snarky comments in their war on stupidity and institutional ignorance. No, they don't always argue as completely or compellingly as one might hope, but they are out there doing something that no one else is bothering to do...and they're doing it pretty well.American Communists have the DNC and NPR; American Fascists have the GOP and Fox News. Us libertarians apparently only get P&T for 30 minutes a week.I'll gratefully accept BS! as it is until Penn & Teller die or someone else does it better. After all, I think for myself and I know entertainment when I see it.