How Stupid is 'Angels and Demons'?

Needlessly stupid, apparently.

My general rule about facts in fiction is that anybody who looks to learn religion from a movie probably expects to learn science from Star Wars. But Dan Brown's work seems to inspire a different level of expectation.
Back when the Da Vinci Code was hot, I suffered through the book (amusing in a few places, interminable in so many others, filled with howlingly dumb content) and saw the movie (not nearly as stupid as the book). And I swore I would wallow in my own effluvia before subjecting myself to more Dan Brown prose. Nonetheless, I steeled myself to go and see the new film. After all, the last one wasn't horrible. And I had professional reasons -- the need to let my readers know what the faith-based angle was all about.

But, lucky me, the wonderful Ann Rodgers--religion reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette--has already done it for us. Her analysis is specific, detailed, and probably more fun to read than the movie would be to see. Here's a nugget:

It mangles the geography of Rome, he said, putting some famous sites far from their real location. Perhaps the silliest scene in the movie shows Langdon diving and swimming in the Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona.

"That fountain is about 6 inches deep," he said.

And here's the link.