Evan Almighty Reviews

If you go expecting to see a gut-busting laugh-out-loud comedy like the usual Jim Carrey-Tom Shayac production, you'll be disappointed. (But it also doesn't have the bathroom humor -- a relief to me.)

But INSTEAD I suggest you think back to those great religious epics of the 1950s -- but with many light-hearted moments (instead of the heavy melodrama those movies had). I think then you can just sit back and enjoy this movie.

Steve Carell is a master of subtle comedy -- the comedy of character nuances. He's not a big broad over-the-top comedy actor like Jim Carrey. So it's not really fair to compare him to Jim and the Ace Ventura movies.

It must be a lot of pressure on him: "You're the star of the most expensive comedy ever made! Talk out of your butt or something!"

They have him doing some slapstick while clumsily building the ark, but it isn't really funny. The film is stocked with expert comedy actors, but only Wanda Sykes got any laughs out of the audience. (But then, it's said Wanda Sykes can get laughs just reading a phone book.)

Sadly John Goodman is wasted as "the heavy". Over the closing credits, you see a moment of him comic dancing and you remember how funny this guy is.)
So if you turn off your laugh-o-meter expectations and just look at it as a sweet story of faith with a few smiles and a lot of delightful animals and some great disaster effects, you'll enjoy it.

dose quite well to follow Bruce Almighty but obviously without Jim Carrey it was never going to be bigger. Although must be said Steve Carell is funny.

"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 lot of times.. the only funny jokes in this I just smiled at. Nothing outrageously funny like some people would expect from Steve Carell. It's like a more biblical version, though the story has no similarities. I even noticed that Steve Carell's character, Evan Baxter, was quite a lot different than we see in Bruce Almighty. So I found myself comparing this to Bruce Almighty, maybe not such a great idea.

It's actually quite a funny, yet stupid idea for the plot. Evan Baxter moves to a new town, leaving his career as a News Reporter. He becomes a congressman when he movies to his new house with his wife and three kids. It's not long after they movie that Evan is approached by God, who suggests that Evan builds an Ark in preparation for a flood. First Evan thinks it's all a joke, but soon two of every animal start to follow him to work and everywhere he goes.. and he works out that in order to get rid of them he must build the ark. Apparently, it's also a great way for his family to bond building it together... And so Evan Baxter becomes Noah.

Steve Carell was no where near as funny as you'd expect.. not that it's completely his fault. The script gave him only a few chances to make his part entertaining. I would have liked to see Morgan Freeman in more of this flick, he was great for his 'small' part. Lauren Graham was worse than average, unconvincing and made some scenes with her character seem just.. stupid. Wanda Sykes and Jonah Hill were some of the more interesting characters, Jonah made me smile the most out of anyone in this.

So this was a slightly less than average film.. if you do see this, don't expect to see anything like Bruce Almighty.

"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"

And it "almost" had a theme about corruption, but the movie sort of backed off that one too.

However, all that being said it was good for a couple of laughs, and maybe an entertaining hour an a half. That's about it.

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.

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.

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.

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 few good laughs, but they were quite good, and nearly all from Steve Carrell. He's the only reason I made it thru the film.

The things that annoyed me about this film was the horrible mis-cating of his wife, Lauren Graham. Sorry, when I think of a married woman with 3 kids, she's about as far off the mark as i'd expect. And the scenes when as a family they're building the ark and cheezy music is playing, that was hard to sit thru.