Keeping the Faith' is a hit-or-miss film

If you don't think you're going to get your monthly fill of blasphemous comedy by watching Jesus Christ Superstar at Tufts, then Keeping the Faith is the movie for you. The plot is basically as follows: Ed Norton and Ben Stiller have been friends since they were kids. Although both were religiously inclined, they took their separate paths towards reaching God: Norton became a priest and Stiller a rabbi. Yes, this is reminiscent of "a priest, a monk, and a rabbi walk into a bar" humor, and a lot of the laughs in the movie come from jokes the audience may think they've heard before. To increase the possibilities for comic and romantic situations, actress Jenna Elfman is introduced into the plot as a childhood friend of both men. Elfman plays a high-powered business exec who loves her cellular phone more than life itself. As the hormonal makeup of man would have it, and as the audience expects, both Stiller and Norton fall in love with her. This allows for the movie to take a course that is set on exploring relationships and the value of friendship.