Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

(update: this post has gone through many minor revisions, and may continue to do so. "kinda like microevolution, huh?" asks the author...)

I saw Ben Stein's new movie on Sunday. Tom Bethell's review of the movie is a solid starting point, and I would add:

• It was the only movie I've ever attended where people applauded more than once.
• It was not as humorous throughout as the previews might lead you to believe. The explanation of how "ideas have consequences" becomes rather depressing when it explains how many millions have died due to Darwin's folly as implemented by nazis, abortionists, and various communists.
• The presentation of the connection between Naziism and Darwinism could have been timed better. Though accurate, its suddenness had a Godwin's Law feeling.
  
• The user comments on IMDB show almost no signs of intelligence, but the wikipedia article does have at least one on the discussion page:

  "This article is about a movie that claims that scientists who oppose the "consensus" view are shouted down and marginalized as kooks. And when someone complains that this article itself is an attempt to shout down Ben Stein and marginalize him as a kook, they are in turn shouted down and marginalized as a kook. Do I detect a pattern here????"

  The bile spewed denouncing this movie is elegant and irrefutable proof that the movie's claims are true.
• One of the "stars" of the movie got really bent out of shape about it, and resorted to "pot calling the kettle black" tactics by saying:

  "dull, artless, amateurish, too long, poorly constructed and utterly devoid of any style, wit or subtlety."

  which describes Dawkins' rant perfectly,

  "What a shoddy, second-rate piece of work."

  which describes Darwinism to a T, and

  "Quite apart from anything else, it is drearily boring, the tedium exacerbated by the grating monotony of..."

  Dawkins' histrionics. (although the movie doesn't portray him as unsympathetically as his ideology deserves.)
• The ads before the movie previews were a whole other steaming pile of greenie propaganda that deserves nearly as much ridicule as macroevolution.

In related reviews, Martin Cothran's review has another angle, and Patrick Roberts adds at least four cents.

update 2: stand to reason answers some questions that might be asked after this movie.