Posted on 06/22/2007 8:05:12 PM PDT by Rodney King
Oh, my God, this movie sucks. I'll say this much: Kudos to Jim Carrey for pulling off perhaps the most amazing disappearing-act hat trick in motion-picture history. With his non-appearance in "Evan Almighty," the follow-up to the smash hit "Bruce Almighty" (2003), Carrey has now NOT appeared in three of the worst sequels of all time:
• "Dumb and Dumberer"
• "Son of the Mask"
• "Evan Almighty"
Talk about dodging bullets.
To be fair, this is the least awful of that horrific trio -- but that's kind of like surviving a car wreck and saying your fractured toe isn't as painful as your shattered spine or your missing nose. "Evan Almighty" is a paper-thin alleged comedy with a laugh drought of biblical proportions, and a condescendingly simplistic spiritual message. It is so bad, I came close to throwing my caffeinated beverage at the screen.
Before vivisecting the meat of the story, let's examine just one small visual joke.
As you probably know, the talented and likable everyman Steve Carell of "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," who had a small but hilarious supporting role as insincere anchorman Evan Baxter in "Bruce Almighty," takes centerstage here. After Evan has an initial encounter with God, played by Morgan Freeman in the very definition of a check-cashing role, he passes a movie marquee.
Now, it's a time-honored tradition for directors to have a little in-joke fun with film buffs via movie marquees. It's a sly way of winking at the audience.
In "Evan Almighty," the marquee advertises a movie called "The 40-Year-Old Virgin Mary." But we don't just truck past that marquee; we zoom in and linger on it. There might as well be a subtitle blaring, "Get it? We're referencing Steve Carell's hit movie and we're making a biblical pun!"
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Any movie with Morgan Freeman as God has got to suck bigtime.
Meanwhile, me and my 12 year old son are waiting for the Transformers flick!
Dopey Roeper has praise for the first film, also with Morgan Freeman as God.
He thinks it is “brilliance” on Jim Carey’s part to have dodged Dumb & Dumberer and Evan Almighty.
Neither of those first movies were anything to brag about.
It’s like saying Ace Ventura One didn’t suck as much as the second one.
“Any movie with Morgan Freeman as God has got to suck bigtime.
Meanwhile, me and my 12 year old son are waiting for the Transformers flick!”
Telling post.
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