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Huge considering the Vatican made such a stink the first time out.
Reviewers at the Vatican's newspaper have passed judgment on "Angels & Demons," finding the new Ron Howard religious thriller commercial and inaccurate, but concluding that it's just plum "harmless" entertainment. And no, it's not a danger to the church.
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L'Osservatore Romano ran a review and an editorial in its Wednesday's edition, critiquing the movie based on the Dan Brown best-selling novel of the same name.
The highly-anticipated flick "Angels & Demons" had its world premiere in Rome on Monday.
Funny enough, the paper suggested moviegoers could make a game out of finding the many historical inaccuracies in the plot.
"Angels & Demons" features Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon of "The Da Vinci Code" fame, played by Tom Hanks. In the film, the Vatican turns to Langdon after an ancient secret brotherhood called the Illuminati kidnap four cardinals considered front-runners to be the next pope, and threaten to kill one an hour and then explode a bomb at the Vatican.
As for the first time around, church brass objected to "The Da Vinci Code" because it was based on the idea that Jesus married and fathered children and depicted the conservative Catholic movement, Opus Dei, as a murderous cult.
