Friday May 8, 2009 3:53 pm
Don’t Worry: Demons Practically Has Papal Sanction
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Columbia Pictures, Adaptation, Drama, Religious, Sequels, Upcoming Releases,

Writers for the Vatican’s newspapers have reviewed Angels & Demons…and (perhaps surprisingly) they aren’t denouncing the flick.
The Church has deemed that Angels & Demons isn’t a threat, concluding that the movie is “harmless” even if inaccurate.
The movie celebrated its world premiere this week in Rome, and though it was pretty soundly thrashed in the Vatican paper is isn’t being called heretical. The critique finds fault in the movie’s “stereotyped characters” and “commercial” nature, but it praises Ron Howard’s direction. Since filming around the Vatican was stymied, many of the movie’s sets are created.
The movie, starring Tom Hanks, focus on the mysteries of the Illuminati and involves many action-packed sequences. The film’s predecessor, The Da Vinci Code, was very poorly received by the Catholic Church.
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