This film is batshit crazy in every way and completely great. It is extremely difficult to watch at parts, and has no less than 5 different characters that make me want to gag, and no less than 8 scenes that made my testicles recoil. Religious imagery and symbolism of some sort appear in practically every scene in this film, and I actually think that the human body is a more disgusting entity after watching this. But somehow the whole thing is completely compelling, funny, imaginative, and sometimes even a bit enlightening. The music is one of my favorite scores of all time. It mixes great examples of many genres, from jazz to classical to rock n roll, presumably to match the different genres shown in this film, and for all of the personalities in the film.
I think that the religious symbolism could have become tiresome and trite, but the film goes so far overboard with all of it that the ridiculousness of everything feels fresh. I don’t know how someone who enjoys this film could claim to be a member of any religion depicted in this film, and in that sense the film feels like it was only designed for a group of non-believers to sit around and make fun of religion without starting any sort of balanced discussion. The film proclaims religion, or any organization, really, to be just as insane as this film is, and just as fake, too, as shown in the final shot.