"To call The Other Side of Heaven "appalling" would be to underestimate just how dangerous entertainments like it can be." -- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL   "So relentlessly wholesome it made me want to swipe something." -- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS   "Insufferably naive." -- Harvey S. Karten, COMPUSERVE   "[Davis] wants to cause his audience an epiphany, yet he refuses to give us real situations and characters." -- Jon Lap, APOLLO GUIDE   "As exciting as all this exoticism might sound to the typical Pax viewer, the rest of us will be lulled into a coma." -- Melanie McFarland, SEATTLE TIMES   "This gently retro story of a young Morman missionary in the Pacific Islands of Tonga loses some wholesomeness points due to some smug insularity." -- Nell Minow, MOVIE MOM   "The movie's messages are quite admirable, but the story is just too clichéd and too often strains credulity." -- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS   "This long and relentlessly saccharine film is a clear case of preaching to the converted." -- Steve Schneider, ORLANDO WEEKLY   "Like one very long, haltingly delivered sermon...the picture's strenuous efforts to convey an uplifting message collapse in a sea of amateurishness." -- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION   "This pep-talk for faith, hope and charity does little to offend, but if saccharine earnestness were a crime, the film's producers would be in the clink for life." -- Gregory Weinkauf, NEW TIMES

Hot Pick   "If the idea of the white man arriving on foreign shores to show wary natives the true light is abhorrent to you, the simplistic Heaven will quite likely be more like hell." -- Connie Ogle, MIAMI HERALD

Cream of the Crop ROTTEN 8% Avg. Rating: 4.4/10   "There's a disturbing 'Great White Hope' undertone to The Other Side of Heaven that subtly undermines its message of Christian love and compassion." -- Al Brumley, DALLAS MORNING NEWS   "Handsome and sincere but slightly awkward in its combination of entertainment and evangelical boosterism." -- Edward Guthmann, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE   "The movie's vision of a white American zealously spreading a Puritanical brand of Christianity to South Seas islanders is one only a true believer could relish." -- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES   "The central story lacks punch." -- Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER   "Obstacles are too easily overcome and there isn't much in the way of character development in the script." -- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST   "Your stomach for Heaven depends largely on your appetite for canned corn." -- Michael O'Sullivan, WASHINGTON POST   "Perhaps even the SLC high command found writer-director Mitch Davis's wall of kitsch hard going." -- Ed Park, VILLAGE VOICE   "It is inspirational in characterizing how people from such diverse cultures share the same human and spiritual needs." -- Carrie Rickey, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER   "Boy oh boy, it's a howler." -- Jan Stuart, LOS ANGELES TIMES   "Captures a breathtaking exotic landscape cluttered only by the smugness of its characters." -- CHICAGO TRIBUNE ( More... )

  "Fails to offer skeptics a way into the worldview of these characters other than a tacit acceptance of its 'truth.'"
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