Not as good as I had hoped but it has its funny moments
NoWireHangers | Sweden | 09/28/2009
(3 out of 5 stars)
"A local TV station facing bankrupcy gets help from Marvin Fleece. His plan to save the station is to is simple: Turn it into a religious TV-station. It's a great success, ratings increase and advertising money pour in. But Fleece's motivation may not be to spread the gospel as he claims or to help the TV-station, but rather to make himself richer.
I can imagine that "Pray TV" might have been ahead of its time in 1980; the worst televangelism scandals were yet to come. That a TV-station woud turn religious just for profit is a great idea for a movie and "Pray TV" but the result was not quite as good as I had hoped. The movie has some quite funny moments and some of the new religious tv-shows are hilarious. As a whole, though, the story gets pretty thin after a while and the plotting is uneven. Not a great movie but one that certainly has its funny moments and may be worth checking out if you like early 1980s comedies or religious or media satire."
Good Movie, Wouldn't Show It to The Kids
Valerie Palmer | Durham, NC | 03/07/2010
(5 out of 5 stars)
"There is only 1 objectionable word in there, but that word is enough to justify not showing it to the kids."