Sundance Review: Sterling K. Brown And Regina Hall In ‘Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.’
deadline.comEven right down to the title this religious comedy debuting appropriately today on a Sunday in the Premieres section of the Sundance Film Festival can’t seem to decide what it wants to be.
Is it Honk For Jesus.? Or is it Save Our Soul.? OR is it as the credits say both? It is a indication of the main problem with this self-styled satire on scandal-ridden Southern Baptist megachurches.
Is it supposed to be a comedy? Or is it aiming to be something deeper and more dramatic? Or is it both? Even for the best of satirists trying to keep an even tone without watching the whole souffle fall is a slippery slope, one that writer/director Adamma Ebo hasn’t quite solved, but not for lack of trying.
As many have discovered, drama is easy, comedy is hard.This feature filmmaking debut from Ebo who is part of a pair of American Nigerian twins who partner together on film and tv projects (sister Adanne is a producer on this outing) comes from a personal place for its director who grew up in Atlanta questioning the ethics and authenticity of the megachurch she attended as a young churchgoer.
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