Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)

User Rating:

3.6/10   

Director:

Nathan Frankowski

Writers (WGA):

Kevin Miller (written by) and
Ben Stein (written by)

Release Date:

18 April 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary

Tagline:

Big science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom...What they forgot is that every generation has its Rebel!

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Academic Freedom | Freedom | Education | Censorship | Darwinism

Cast

Ben Stein	...	Himself - Host
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Peter Atkins	...	Himself
Hector Avalos	...	Himself
Doug Axe	...	Himself
David Berlinski	...	Himself
Walter Bradley	...	Himself
Bruce Chapman	...	Himself
Anderson Cooper	...	Himself (archive footage)
Caroline Crocker	...	Herself
Richard Dawkins	...	Himself
William Dembski	...	Himself (as William Albert Dembski)
Daniel C. Dennett	...	Himself (as Daniel Dennett)
Michael Egnor	...	Himself
Steve Fuller	...	Himself
Uta George	...	Herself
Marciej Giertych	...	Himself
Guillermo Gonzalez	...	Himself
John Hauptman	...	Himself
Adolf Hitler	...	Himself (archive footage)
Benjamin Kelley	...	Himself (as Ben Kelley)
John Lennox	...	Himself
Robert J. Marks II	...	Himself
Alister McGrath	...	Himself
Stephen C. Meyer	...	Himself
Paul Zachary Myers	...	Himself (as P. Z. Myers)
Paul Nelson	...	Himself
John Polkinghorne	...	Himself
William Provine	...	Himself (as Will Provine)
Michael Ruse	...	Himself
Margaret Sanger	...	Herself (archive footage)
Gerald Schroeder	...	Himself
Jeffrey Schwartz	...	Himself
Eugenie C. Scott	...	Herself (as Eugenie Scott)
Michael Shermer	...	Himself
Mark Souder	...	Himself
Richard Sternberg	...	Himself
Deano Sutter	...	Himself - Introductory Speaker
Witold 'Vic' Walczak	...	Himself (archive footage)
Daniel Walsch	...	Himself
Richard Weikart	...	Himself
Jonathan Wells	...	Himself
Pamela Winnick	...	Herself
Larry Witham	...	Himself
Nikita Khrushchev	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dan Quayle	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ronald Reagan	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Pat Robertson	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joseph Stalin	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Directed by
Nathan Frankowski

Writing credits (WGA)
Kevin Miller		(written by) and
Ben Stein		(written by)

Produced by
Logan Craft	....	co-executive producer
Walt Ruloff	....	co-executive producer
John Sullivan	....	producer

Original Music by
Andy Hunter		(musical score composed by)

Film Editing by
Simon Tondeur

Casting by
Joy Tenenberg

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Gillian Rowe	....	first assistant director (as Gillian Fritzsche)

Art Department
Tom Whaley	....	storyboard artist

Sound Department
Jeff Davis	....	sound effects editor
Ewan Deane	....	sound re-recording mixer
Peter Eliuk	....	sound mix technician
Jeremy Duayne Elzinga	....	sound engineer
Amy Giammarco	....	post audio manager
Tanya Hnuta	....	dialogue editor
Robert Hunter	....	sound re-recording mixer
Johnny Ludgate	....	sound effects editor
Luke Mathers	....	foley editor
Maureen Murphy	....	foley artist
Gordon Sproule	....	foley mixer
Elaine Stef	....	assistant foley artist

Visual Effects by
Andrea Chlebak	....	digital intermediate colorist

Camera and Electrical Department
Ben Huddleston	....	camera operator: "a" camera
Ben Huddleston	....	director of photography: second unit
Maximilian Zenk	....	assistant camera: Germany

Animation Department
Tom Whaley	....	animator

Other crew
J.P. Chastain	....	production assistant
Lydia Fleming	....	production assistant coordinator
Maximilian Zenk	....	production coordinator: Germany

Production Companies

• Premise Media Corporation
• Rampant Films

Distributors

• Rocky Mountain Pictures (2008) (USA) (theatrical)

Other Companies

• DBC Sound  post audio facility

Also Known As:

Crossroads (USA) (fake working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG for thematic material, some disturbing images and brief smoking.

Runtime:

USA:90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor) | Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA

Company:

Premise Media Corporation

Trivia:

Preview screenings for the movie were held for churches and other Christian groups months in advance, and by invitation only. After a movie critic was inadvertently allowed to view the film early, resulting in a negative review, a policy of requiring viewers to sign nondisclosure agreements was implemented at these screenings. Closer to release, an "RSVP" site was set up to allow members of the public to view the movie in a near-finished state. One of these was evolutionary biologist and Expelled interviewee PZ Myers. Although ejected from the screening, his anonymous guests - including fellow interviewee, biologist Richard Dawkins - were able to view the movie.

Movie Connections:

Features "The Abrams Report" (2001)

Amusing Propaganda - Title accurate description of Movie

No Intelligence Allowed describes the movie content rather well. The movie demonstrates NOT suppression of alternative ideas, but a failure to recognize the difference between science and philosophy. The term Darwinism is just a convenient way of making a science, backed up by 200 years of evidence, look like a philosophy or a "religion".

The number of times that logical fallacies are committed in this film is mind boggling. For instance, it equates evolution theory with Atheism, which it then equates with Hilter (not an Atheist) and Stalin. Even if these false conclusions were true, they have no bearing on the theory of evolution. The movie never makes a decent case for showing evolution as false, and as another website has pointed out so well: Not Expelled, Flunked.

Science is science and it boils down to "Show me the money". The reason that the so called Persecuted scientists are no longer working at those institutions is because they were practicing something other than science, not because they were making a valid scientific point that contradicted evolution or other evidence based theories.

Please - see the movie if you like, but with a critical eye. There should be no "Suspension of disbelief" since this is supposed to be a documentary. It is full of propaganda and lacks an honest approach. Its rather amazing that they were actually so transparent in their attempts to make their point. This movie flunks as a documentary.