
Academic freedom is being suppressed, says Ben Stein. He contends that professors from around the United States are being fired from their jobs for promoting, or even exploring the possibility of, intelligent design as an alternative to Darwinism. Stein interviews the expelled academics and other supporters of intelligent design. He also interviews the scientists in the mainstream, who support Darwinism. Stein links Darwinism to Nazism, Communism, eugenics and abortion. Vinta... (Full plot summary below)
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Academic freedom is being suppressed, says Ben Stein. He contends that professors from around the United States are being fired from their jobs for promoting, or even exploring the possibility of, intelligent design as an alternative to Darwinism. Stein interviews the expelled academics and other supporters of intelligent design. He also interviews the scientists in the mainstream, who support Darwinism. Stein links Darwinism to Nazism, Communism, eugenics and abortion. Vintage clips of educational films and Hollywood movies are used to illustrate points in a satirical way.
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| ScreenRantVic HoltremanYour opinion of the film will with almost complete certainty be predicted by your opinions on Darwinism vs Intelligent Design. |
| TIME MagazineJeffrey KlugerThe man made famous by Ferris Bueller, however, quickly wades into waters far too deep for him. |
| Film Journal InternationalRex RobertsManages to be flippant and darkly provocative at once. |
| AV ClubSteven HydenSurely there's a more nuanced argument to be made in favor of ID than pinning the old "bad as Hitler" canard on pro-evolution scientists? |
| Can MagazineFred TopelThe prospect of a pro-Intelligent Design documentary sounded so batsh** crazy,it had to be awesome, watching intellectuals spin a story about how they're persecuted for their beliefs.Not to say I didn't give it a fair chance,but they made it really easy. |
| Los Angeles CityBeatAndy Klein[T]he No. 1 agenda [here] has much less to do with academic freedom than with political ideology. |
| E! OnlineMatt StevensStein's credibility is blown on this poorly constructed diatribe, and you'd be smart to save your bucks. |
| Filmcritic.comMatt McKillopworks in much the same way as a Michael Moore documentary -- a raft of provocation and very little persuasion |
| Entertainment WeeklyAdam MarkovitzRegardless of your personal views, Expelled's heavy-handed bias (a visit to Darwin's home gets the same eerie music as a tour of Dachau) is exasperating. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThis film is cheerfully ignorant, manipulative, slanted, cherry-picks quotations, draws unwarranted conclusions, makes outrageous juxtapositions, segues between quotes that are not about the same thing, tells bald-faced lies, etc. |