EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed: Critic Reviews

Regardless 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.

One of the sleaziest documentaries to arrive in a very long time, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is a conspiracy-theory rant masquerading as investigative inquiry.

This is propaganda, a political rant disguised as a serious commentary on stifled freedom of inquiry.

Bizarre and hysterical.

Stein's schlumpy presence is disarming, though his know-it-all nature is at odds with his free-speech posing.

This 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.

The movie itself is an example of design by faith and emotion rather than intelligence, defined as rationality grounded in proof.

Embracing evolutionary theory will turn you into a close-minded, God-denying Nazi -- that's the upshot of this ludicrous propaganda piece.

The film's flippant approach undermines the seriousness of its discourse, trading less in facts than in emotional appeals.

Stein spends the first half of the movie setting himself a trap, and the second half squirming in it.

A cynical attempt to sucker Christian conservatives into thinking they're losing the 'intelligent design' debate because of academic 'prejudice.'

Don't expect any serious debate here about God and evolution. This documentary is like watching a paranoiac making fun of a hysteric.

This film is an appallingly unscrupulous example of hack propaganda and it sucketh mightily. What's more, I didn't laugh once.

This documentary purporting to examine the issue of freedom of expression in the debate between the competing arguments of 'intelligent design' and Darwinism squanders the potential fascination of its topic with its simplistic, heavy-handed approach.

The man made famous by Ferris Bueller, however, quickly wades into waters far too deep for him.

To grant Expelled any credibility beyond the opening minutes requires nothing short of a leap of faith.

Despite some occasionally sloppy filmmaking, I think the picture is worth a look. It raises important ideas and issues, asks important questions. No one could argue against that, right? Bueller...Bueller...Bueller...

Like Moore, whose documentary-cum-polemical style they are clearly imitating, the makers of Expelled give their critics too much ammunition, so even if you're sympathetic to some of the ideas and the underlying argument, it is still difficult to defend.

Ignorance may be bliss, but encouraging it, as Expelled does, ought to be a crime.

If someone believes in the Tooth Fairy, can they complain about not being taken seriously at dental school?

The movie is unpersuasive, but it's amusing...

Might there be a way to get to God through science? It's a fascinating notion and I wish the slickly produced Expelled investigated it more thoroughly.

Expelled is a classic bait-and-switch, presenting itself as a plea for freedom in the scientific marketplace of ideas, while actually delivering a grossly unfair, contradictory, and ultimately repugnant attack on Darwinists.

works in much the same way as a Michael Moore documentary -- a raft of provocation and very little persuasion

Junk science meets even junkier filmmaking in Expelled -- a no more shameless, stupid and loathsome piece of propaganda has ever skulked its way into the theater.