Cartoon Christians  National | Movie review   The scene is a
packed high-school assembly. A girl band called "The Christian
Jewels" has just emoted (sung is the wrong word) in front of an
audience waving outstretched arms. Suddenly, Pastor Skip (Martin
Donovan), principal of the school, runs onto the stage,
executing a 360-degree flip. Throwing an arm towards the crowd,
he shouts, "Are you down with G-O-D?"  It's one of several on-
target moments in Saved! (rated PG-13), a teen comedy that often
viciously mocks fundamentalist/evangelical Christians. The movie
is at its best when lampooning painfully forced attempts to
repackage the gospel for the MTV generation and is likely to
resonate with many who have attended Christian high schools.
But most of Saved! is a shallow, offensive attack on straw
men-"Christians" who are either hypocrites full of malice,
lunatics lost in their own delusions, or both. And, naturally,
it reaches the same destination as most films in the last 50
years: Standards hurt people; true