May 102013
BAPTISTS AT OUR BARBECUE
From Robert Farrell Smith’s best-selling novel comes a hilarious romantic comedy about a town where everyobody’s nuts…about religion! Tartan (Dan Merkley) is 29, single and Mormon. Tired of being set up by his marriage-conscious mother, Tartan takes a job as a forest ranger in Longfellow, a sleepy town where half the population is LDS, the other half is Baptists, and nobody can get along! Tartan’s not the only recent transplant: the beautiful (and single) Charity (Heather Beers) arrives in Lon
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SILLY, MAYBE. ENTERTAINING? YES,
BAPTISTS AT OUR BARBECUE is an amusing film with many qualities that make it enjoyable. It tells the story of a young man named Tartan who moves from Utah to a small town called Longfellow, nicknamed Longwinded to escape the pressure from his mother to get married. In his new community he discovers that all of the townspeople are either Mormon or Baptist and the two religious groups despise one another. The town is filled with eccentrics and Tartan has to learn to navigate his way. He and a young woman named Charity and the Mormon elder realize that the feud between the two groups is ridiculous and they devise a plan to have an “All Faiths Barbeque” to bring the two together. The plan works. Tartan and Charity fall in love, and the movie has a predictable ending.
It would be easy to take a cynical approach and pan the film, but as I watched it, I found myself laughing and found much of it silly, but funny. Remember silly but funny works. The HERBY THE LOVEBUG series, WHAT’S UP DOC, and IT’S A MAD MAD WORLD were all blockbusters. While the film is Mormon based, any religious groups could be substituted for Mormon or Baptist which gives ita universal quality. Then as I thought about it, I realized that the film had strengths many films that poke fun at religious situations lack. The film pokes fun at the people’s idiosyncrasies but never makes fun of faith so it does not offend. The people are flawed, but their flaws make them human, not hypocrites. Perhaps the reason it is so enjoyable is that we see ourselves and others we know in this film.
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|Not just a Mormon flick,
While marketed and generally reviewed as a Mormon movie, or at best a Christian film, “Baptists at Our Barbecue” can stand on its own as a well-told tale of small-town life. In the same vein as “Northern Exposure” (including a great, eclectic soundtrack, btw) or Tom Bodett’s tales, “Baptists” does revolve around religion – but in the same way “Northern Exposure” revolved around Joel Fleishman being a New Yorker stuck in Alaska. One need not be Mormon nor Baptist (lapsed Catholic here) to enjoy this film’s excellent character development, large cast of lovable eccentrics, or strong story telling.
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|Probably the best Mormon movie to date.,
Okay, it’s probably not something you would take your family of 4 (7 if you’re Mormon) to the theater and pay $8 each to see.
But it’s much better than “Home Teachers,” and infinitely better than “Singles Ward.”
I’d probably rank it slightly ahead of Best 2 Years, but this is entirely a Romance/Comedy.
I don’t think you have to be Mormon to like this movie.
There are no A- or B-list actors in it, but the writing and directing is good, better than most previous Mormon movies.
As to another reviewer’s implication that this movie makes Baptists out to be “the bad guys”, just know that the Mormons in the movie get lampooned as much as anyone else. I’m sure there are just as many uptight LDS who cringed at the negative Mormon stereotypes in the movie, as Baptists who cringed at the Baptist stereotypes.
But just like in the movie “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”, there are stereotypes in all religions and cultures. Part of everyone getting along is laughing at ourselves.
It’s just a movie. And a funny one, to boot.
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|outdoor griller,
looked good at first but locks up my kindle fire on start up. it has definite bugs that need to be worked out.
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