Evan Almighty (2007)

Posted : 1 year, 10 months ago at Jan 16 2:29

"Let me ask you something. If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them opportunities to love each other?" Believe it or not, they actually tried to incorporate a message into this.. but for me it just didn't come out like it was expected to. I don't understand how they can have this so called 'comedy' and expect to have a message like this come through. A lot of people are saying, and I completely agree, that this is nothing like Bruce Almighty. That movie I actually laughed out loud at, a lo...Read more

Rating : 4/10

Posted : 1 year, 11 months ago at Dec 15 14:32

Not even Steve Carell could rescue a followup to Jim Carey's subpar performance. This movie was just lame.

Rating : 2/10

Posted : 2 years ago at Nov 18 19:12

"Almost." That's the best word to describe this movie. I guess I'm not sure quite what they were going for. It wasn't "quite" funny, and it wasn't "quite" inspiring, and so it ended up not being much of anything. I guess I'm a big environmentalist, and I felt that the movie "almost" had a good environmental theme, but it wasn't really developed. To me it seemed that the writers wanted to make it sort of a pro-environment movie, then they just sort of backed off at the end. And I suppose I'm a little bit...I don't know anti human? (except not) but I kind of wanted the flood to actually come and destroy the country. It just seemed that there was all of this build up, and then it was just this dam broke, and so they went sailing across DC and then it's like..."well, that was fun" ...Read more

Rating : 5/10

Posted : 2 years ago at Oct 29 21:36

Evan Almighty stars Steve Carell as evan baxter. your every day funny man elected to congress.who happens to be a former newsman in Buffalo anlongside Bruce Jim carrey's charcter in the first film. Evan Almighty isn't as funny as Bruce Almighty but, still shows us a good lesson about life. The suppporting cast really holds the movie together with wanda sykes and Jonah Hill as Evan's researcher and secretary you can't help but laugh. For a sequel to a comedy this worth the watch.

Rating : 7/10

Posted : 2 years, 1 month ago at Oct 21 15:52

Newly elected Congressman Evan Baxter (Steve Carell) leaves Buffalo with his family for the state of Virginia, where God (Morgan Freeman) requests him to build an Arc and, as Noah did before him, load it full of animals to protect them from an oncoming flood.

Lauren Graham *was* badly cast, I had a hard time imagining her as a married woman with 3 kids too!

I found all the jokes lame, lousy, bad.

I did not enjoy Freeman's performance at all. I found him smug and ridiculously bad.

Worth wasting time on, if you enjoy Carell and such humor. Not the greatest comedy of the year.


Rating : 5/10

Posted : 2 years, 2 months ago at Aug 30 19:15

I just recently saw a Movie in Tele which was exactly the same plot, so thi sone is a remake.
And its a sequel with the less popular charackter of the previous movie.

So what to expect? Not much indeed. But still solid Hollywood Comedy.

Rating : 5/10

Posted : 2 years, 4 months ago at Jul 25 14:56

I expected a lot more laughs out of this one, because of two reasons: the hilarious concept about a modern-time Noah's ark, and the lead star - Steve Carell, who is usually side-splitting funny in everything he does. We all know it was a box office mega-bomb, but let's not judge a movie on how much money it makes. You don't see any of that money either way, so put that aside when you watch this film. I think where it failed was that it should've been marketed more as a family film, which it really is at the core, but since Steve Carell's previous '40-year-old virgin' was chock full of sexual references and f-bombs, it may have drawn out the wrong crowds to see this film, hence the poor reception. I don't believe there's any swearing throughout Evan Almighty. There was only a fe...Read more

Rating : 7/10