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Bruce Almighty
God actually contacts Bruce; a guy who blames him for his misfortunes and offers him all of his powers if he thinks he can do a better job.
15 December 1974, Maplewood, New Jersey, USA
31 October 1941, New York City, New York, USA
12 October 1950, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
November1947, Columbus, Ohio, USA
16 March 1963, Havana, Cuba
12 March 1953, Long Island, New York, USA
16 January 1963, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
16 August 1962, Concord, Massachusetts, USA
4 April 1968, Mt. Vernon, New York, USA
5 April 1968, Linwood, New Jersey, USA
12 July 1962, Detroit, Michigan, USA
January 09, 2010
For all its swings for the fences, the movie never rises above being lightly amusing.
August 11, 2007
This is another of Jim Carrey's surefire vehicles that can be whittled down to a phrase: Jim Carrey is the Grinch; Jim Carrey is God.
August 07, 2008
The inspiration flags after a while, but there are many hilarious moments, and the resolution (thanks to Jennifer Aniston as Carrey's put-upon girlfriend) is sweetly touching.
December 22, 2010
Happily deranged comedy has typical Carrey humor.
April 29, 2009
It fails to really use Carrey's comedic ability and it ultimately wastes the potential it reaps.
May 29, 2003
It drowns [Carrey's] hilarious physicality in an ocean of sap.
September 21, 2010
Ultimately, Bruce Almighty is an excuse for Jim Carrey to be crazy and zany. He puts on his comedy hat and has fun with the script. It's made for the Jim Carrey fan.
July 29, 2008
There's remarkably little done with a premise snatched from high-concept heaven, adding yet another file to the growing cabinet of under-realized comedies.
May 27, 2003
Bruce takes over for the vacationing deity, but despite an initial surge of jolly, somewhat cruel chaos (as when he forces the new anchor to unreel paragraphs of gibberish on camera), things soon turn soggy.
May 27, 2003
... on at least three or four occasions, Carrey made me laugh so hard I had tears in my eyes -- and that's a heck of a trick.
June 13, 2003
Mr. Carrey gets some of his biggest laughs in years by playing up the darker side of his character's small-mindedness.
June 24, 2006
Director Shadyac and his three scriptwriters prove much more fallibly flawed than their omnipotent hero.
