A few weeks ago, I blogged a NYTimes article on this film, which the studio was actually thinking was perhaps a good follow-up to The Passion to market to Christians. It’s a satire of life at a Christian high school.
This isn’t a teen comedy, it’s a cartoon. And that is where the film’s true crime lies. It’s not that the Christian teen scene isn’t ripe for parody. It’s that it’s overripe. And while Saved! offers an ingenious new wrinkle in a high-school genre that has been worked over more than a Singapore whore, it fluffs the opportunity. The only award it’s likely to pick up, even at the ghastly MTV movie awards which celebrate mediocrity, is for Most Scenery Chewed
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