The Catechism Cataclysm (2011)
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 16
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 9
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Average Rating: 4.5/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 4
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Storytelling in all its forms is skewered in The Catechism Cataclysm. In this divinely bizarre and funny tale, wild characters infuse stories within stories until the lines between the Bible, Mark Twain, and campfire tales are hilariously blurred. Father Billy (Steve Little), an eccentric young priest, is forced to take asabbatical by his superiors when he is discovered telling inappropriate parables to his flock. Billy tracks down his high-school idol Robbie (Robert Longstreet), who
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Steven E. Little
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Robert Longstreet
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Walter Dalton
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Miki Ann Maddox
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Koko Lanham
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Judy Findlay
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Carlos López
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Derek Erdman
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Ronald McGill
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Alice Bridgforth
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Laurel Paxton
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Kevin Seal
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Lynn Shelton
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Vinny Smith
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Andy Tribolini
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Timothy Watkins
Father Tim -
Carol Sparer
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Shellee Miggins
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Marie Clare Petrich
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Frederick Regis
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C.J. Rose
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Paul Sanchez
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Rylan Scherer
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Garrett Cantrell
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Brock Hutchinson
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Barbara Pommer
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Enrique Olguin
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Ernie Joseph
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All Critics (17) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (9)
A grating and witless would-be spoof of religion, male-bonding and, it seems, horror movies.
Top CriticWilliam and Robbie's adventure has a shaggy-dog charm that's hard to resist.
Such detours into psychotronic oddity for its own sake can make even a 75-minute running time feel like an eternity.
Weird and well-acted...
Taking the notion of toilet humor literally but incapable of delivering its promised religious satire, The Catechism Cataclysm is more muddled than its tongue-twister title.
It seems hopelessly without a point - unless the point has something to do with dropping a Bible into a dirty toilet.
It's a very dumb comedy made by very smart folks.
A lot of it is tedious and directionless.
As a professional preacher, I could appreciate (the film) to some degree as a satiric take on storytelling in both religious and secular circles. Sorry to say, that's about as far as my appreciation goes.
A priest and a washed-up heavy metal drummer step into a boat. . . . This isn't the start of a joke, but rather the plot of Todd Rohal's strange IFC film.
Even after the movie takes its turn for the surreal, it remains rooted in the reactions of slack-faced good guy Little and the gruff-but-loveable Longstreet.
It's essentially a hilariously brazen lark, which is reason enough to embrace it.
While the ending to any shaggy-dog story is supposed to be irrelevant, The Catechism Cataclysm's capper is particularly enervating.
rather than use this premise as a set up for bible satire, the film relies on diarrhea jokes and uninspired buddy-bonding to carry us through an ill-plotted tale of damnation and redemption
Watching the lazy surreal odyssey unfold, you might be tempted to see The Catechism Cataclysm as a metaphor about telling a story, or about the futility of telling a story.
Catechism Cataclysm ain't perfect, but people in the, um, right frame of mind will definitely have a big, dopey grin on their face.
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