YMMV / Jesus, Bro!

• Awesome Music
  • Much like everything else, the score is trying to be cheesy, but there are some legitimately gorgeous moments throughout.
  • "Go Jesus! Go Jesus, bro!"
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: While Santa Christ was convincing Rick to convert his followers, Santa Christ laughs only for him to double-over and cough-up a whole candy cane and then awkwardly gives it to Rick. It is not a pleasant moment. Subverted, as Rick waking up with the candy cane cements to him that the experience was real.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • Whilst Rick is bitching about his lot in life and how nobody has it worse, an inadvertently triggered Carlos mutters "They didn't even put in a stop sign..." as Rick carries on.
  • At the end, Rick sees spectral forms of God and Santa Christ a la Return of the Jedi, abruptly joined by his brother Willy, smiling and cheering him on. Rick looks over and sees his brother lying dead on the table with the Christ Chicken Sandwich still in his mouth. It's the way everyone takes it in stride that really sells the moment.
• Don't Shoot the Message: Brad Jones has made it clear that the object of parody here is Christian propaganda films, not the religion itself. Didn't stop the Dove Foundation from rating it zero doves regardless.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In his Cinema Snob review of I'm Not Ashamed, Brad was amusingly surprised to discover that Jesus, Bro! had borrowed the same line from As You Like It as that Pure Flix film, and even did so in a similar context (an actual stage).
    Rachel Joy Scott: [in I'm Not Ashamed] Good idea, even though the whole world is my stage.
    Santa Christ: [in Jesus, Bro!] Well, if the whole world's a stage... why not Heaven?
  • The film also seems like it could be a beat-for-beat parody of the Kevin Sorbo film Let There Be Light, where an atheist has a near-death experience, goes to Heaven, and comes back as a Christian — except that Brad's film actually came first, something that he repeatedly notes (and mocks) in his Cinema Snob review of Sorbo's movie.
• Narm Charm: Despite the effect of the YouTube neckbeard spontaneously combusting looking rather obvious, both the producer and cast commentary burst into laughter when watching that scene.
• One-Scene Wonder: Zach Lavoy as the park ranger and Sarah Gobble as God are standouts.
• Special Effects Failure: While film does have a lot of effort put into its sets, its lighting and its cinematography (especially considering it's low budget), the effects shot of the random neckbearded YouTube commenter who suffers from a prayer-induced spontaneous combustion does not do justice to what is supposed to be happening (on the other hand, most of the Christian films this one is mocking are low-budget affairs, with lots of this Trope whenever actual effects are needed, so it fits right in).

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