Best movie of this year hands down!

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Mary, is a good Christian girl whose friends are Hillary Faye (Alpha Christian and leader of a group called the Christian Jewels) Veronica, a Vietnamese girl adopted by a black couple and Tia is a girl who wants to be in the clique but is mostly ignored When her boyfriend Dean comes out to her, she has sex with him to save him from gaydom. That's where her life begins to go topsy turvy, she is later befriended by a Jewish student and "resident heathen" Cassandra Edelstein and Roland, Hillary Faye's brother who is wheelchair bound.With the layers of her world coming undone, she struggles with the world she grew up in vs. the world she is trying to adjust to I wanted to call this an Evangelical Mean Girls, which is the spirit of the film. However, it is also something all its own with that similar undercurrent.

Well, this movie begins very fast paced, making you feel like you're about to see a great one. Mary is a religious girl who dates a Christian guy who has everything to be gay. Then, one day she gets a message that she has to save him, so, when the guy is horny due to a gay porn magazine, she loses her virginity with him. After that, the guy is caught by his own parents and ends up in a "Mercy House" to find salvation. From that point on, there are lots of problems in the school, many of them dealing with religious fundamentalism. There are some indeed funny scenes, thanks to a cool plot, given that the cast is just average. Sadly, after fifty minutes or so, "Saved!" utilizes many clichés we've seen in past Hollywood flicks; that's when the movie stops being so authentic as it was in the get go. The prom night thing is just as lame as you might expect. The scene is just formulaic as in any teen movie. However, I believe this film should get some recognition, since it deals with religious aspects with good humor and without offending anyone-- which is pretty hard to do nowadays. It's a good option for a calm afternoon.

The teen movie plot is such a well-honed machine that all it really needs is a fresh, interesting coat of paint -- in this case the extremely-Christian subculture -- in order to create something that seems fresh. Saved! is a movie that's almost impossible to dislike, brimming with charm and humour and maybe even a bit of intelligence.All of the performances here are pretty good, but most of all the film makes excellent use of stunt-casting. Mandy Moore's character here is basically a parody of every other Mandy Moore character, and it's fantastic. Macauley Culkin is also pretty fun as her sardonic wheelchair-bound brother. All of the characters shine as comic inventions, with the possible exception of Mary's fine-but-unnecessary love interest, a played-straight cool Christian skateboarder.The social commentary is nothing you wouldn't hear at the dinner table of every loyal Democrat, which makes it annoying when Saved! tries to pass itself off as edgy or subversive. This especially becomes overbearing during the climax, which is dedicated to hammering its point home over and over again. But while this is irritating, I don't really remember it when I think of this movie. Instead I think of the fun set pieces, the light humour, and a well-wasted afternoon.

Saved! is the most original, clever and thoughtful teen movie I have ever seen. It questions the meaning of life, religion, belonging, and right and wrong.Mary (Jena Malone) is a happy, Born Again girl excited about beginning her senior year at a Christian high school with her Christian friends, and Christian boyfriend. But her world is shaken to its core when her boyfriend Dean (Chad Faust) reveals that he is gay. Believing that Jesus wants her to "help" him, Mary has sex with Dean in order to make him straight. But unfortunately, when school starts and Dean is sent away for "de-gayification" the whole school finds out, thanks to Mary's judgmental friend Hilary Faye (Mandy Moore). Things only get worse for Mary when she discovers she is pregnant and questions her faith, making her withdraw from friends like Hilary Faye. While she struggles to fit in with most classmates, Mary is befriended by the rebellious Jewish girl Cassandra (Eva Amurri Martino) and Hilary Faye's cynical, paraplegic brother Roland (Macaulay Culkin). Tension gets stronger as Mary progresses in her pregnancy and Hilary Faye competes with her for the attentions of Patrick (Patrick Fugit), the principal/pastor's son who has his eye on Mary. Throughout the school year all the teens and even some parents learn a lot about friendship, faith, and the meaning of right and wrong.Saved! explores a topic most movies for young adults do not even touch upon. It is a story of spiritual maturation and morality. Though many people may argue this movie insults Christianity or Christians, it doesn't really. It does poke fun at Fundamentalists and Born Agains, but only because of many of their unfair, mean or truly, unChrist-like practices. True Christians will see how positive this truly is. No matter your beliefs, it is funny, warm-hearted and something you can watch over and over again.