Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
In the aftermath of a huge scandal, Trinitie Childs, the first lady of a prominent Southern Baptist Mega Church, attempts to help her pastor-husband, Lee-Curtis Childs, rebuild their congregation.
Kevin Ward reviewedJuly 6, 2025
Sterling K. Brown and Regina Hall are really exceptional and give absolutely unflinching performances. Honk For Jesus, Save Your Soul is a mockumentary that aims to lampoon megachurches and the surrounding culture that is ripe with hypocrisy. Despite the aforementioned performances from the leads, I did not really enjoy watching hardly any of this film. The criticisms levied at the church/religion amount to not much more than the super low hanging fruit. I couldn’t ever really discern if the tone was supposed to lean on the comedic, or if this was intended to be dead serious. I sort of hope they were going for the latter, because I only laughed a couple times during this watch. But if Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul is shooting for earnestness, the same way that, say, Will Ferrell’s A Deadly Adoption aims for an earnest recreation of A Lifetime Original movie, then HFJ,SYS may very well have hit the target. That doesn’t make the film any more enjoyable to watch. The commitment to the bit can be commended, but unfortunately, I can’t recommend anyone seek this out.