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.Amos Lassen wrote on 08/23/2011:

Ash Christian’s (“Fat Girls”) new movie is a dark and trashy comedy with humor that cuts deep. Mangus Spedgwick has dreamt his whole life of landing the role of Jesus in his high school’s annual production of “Jesus Christ Superstar” just as his father and grandfather that done when they were his age. Then he gets the part and…his dream stands the chance of being shattered. The director (Leslie Jordan) is all for Mangus playing the part but a group of scheming women, Stage Mothers of Texas, convince the school board that it is not fitting that Jesus be played by someone in a wheelchair. Mangus cannot be defeated easily and he fights back.

This is most definitely a film that will develop a cult following. Jennifer Coolidge plays Mangus’ mother and Heather Matarazzo is his lesbian sister and even John Waters makes a cameo appearance. The humor is raw and cutting and Mangus finds himself in very strange situations in trying to hold up his family traditions. He is forced into breaking the law, going to a strip club, appearing at a murder scene in a trailer park and even getting as far as Florida. He is on a journey to save face and to portray the first wheelchair bound messiah.