Is that all there is?

The Da Vinci Code: 'Is that all there is?'by Donovan Jacobs

A few hours before the film adaptation of The Da Vinci Code opened last Friday, Pat Robertson was on The 700 Club repeating (like so many Christians in recent months) that the movie was "dangerous." Moviegoers failed to pay attention to Robertson, as the thriller grossed a substantial $224 million worldwide its opening weekend - in other words, more than 25 million people paid to see the film.

But it would have been a good idea for Da Vinci director Ron Howard and writer Akiva Goldsman to have listened to Robertson, though not in the way the conservative pastor would have liked. If the movie adaptation had been more daring and less tied to the thriller genre conventions and overall silliness of Dan Brown's novel, Da Vinci might have been both consistently entertaining and truly thought-provoking. Instead, considering the amount of controversy leading up to the film's release, one can't help but recall the old Peggy Lee song: Is that all there is?

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