The shopocalypse is coming

How did you find gifts for the holidays this year? Did get caught in a frenzy of overspending, blinded by the glare of shiny new objects and a blitz of advertisements hurled your way since Thanksgiving?

Coming soon to a theater near you is a "shopocalypse!" as Reverend Billy will tell ya in the docu-comedy, What Would Jesus Buy? With his coif of bleached white hair and Church of Stop Shopping Choir, he's on mission to end the madness of over-consumption during the holidays. He wants you to wake up and smell the price tag of what all this excessive consumerism is doing to our country -- one that has taken debt to epidemic proportions.

Produced by Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) and done in the same humor-with-a-message style, the movie follows Reverend Billy and his red-robed choir as they crash the malls with their "retail interventions" and rewritten Christmas carols to urge people to stop shopping.

Who wouldn't put away their credit card when they hear the tunes of:

"Joy to the world! In the form of goods!
Consume! Consume! Consume!
Bright plastic this and thats!
For screaming little brats!
Take the SUV to the mall!
Take the SUV to the mall!
And buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy it all."

We also see the Reverend get kicked out by the cops. Then there's the grand finale of where he's arrested in the ultimate kingdom of commercialism -- Disneyland. And he does it all for you -- to encourage you to give from your heart, not your wallet.

While it may be too late to save yourself this year, you can still make it your New Year's resolution that next year, you'll shop smarter and in the end -- give more.