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Summary: Worst movie ever...
Review: Bruce Almighty is hands down the worst movie ever made. Thinking of all the z grade and direct to video movies out, bruce still easily wins the title. The idea for the movie isnt that bad, you know ordinary guy gets the power of god... with jim carey this would seem pretty entertaining, let me tell you its not...at all. Terribly underwritten, Almighty failed to deliver me with one laugh. Its corny and becomes annoying after about the first 15 minutes when you realize that you have wasted your time and money. Bruce is just a blah movie, its too serious and romantic to enjoy Carey's Ace Ventura like silliness, but its not serious enough to warrent a dramatic Carey performance(which are underrated) Bruce had potential to be a entertaining movie, but is just too annoyingly bland to find any merit in
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Summary: be all you can be, wrapped with Carrey's funnies
Review: I must confess that i have been reluctant to go see the movie because it looked like a caricature of Christianity from the reviews and water cooler talk.
The humor comes primarily from Jim Carrey's extraordinary physical humor, very little from any sophisticated wit. The movie started out pretty good, looked like an analysis of theodicy, that is simply "why good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people" if a good, powerful, just God is in control of the universe. theodicy is a big, hard problem and i'd welcome humor to help understand even one of the issues involved. But that was not to be in this movie, it lost the intellectual appeal to me with the childish antics that Carrey's character immediately fell into doing when he had God's power. Sure the scenes are cute but the humor doesn't rise above the level of freshman animal house, although the writers sincerely try to be more with the accent on the issue of love between Carrey and Jennifer Aniston's character. but the effort falls flat.There are big issues involved: purpose of living, relationships, theodicy. But these are lost in the anthropomorphic God, not in His portrayal by Morgan Freeman which is excellent, but in the anthropomorphic things he does and that Carrey does while he is playing God. There are the usual ridicule of religious belief: the golden calf on a table at a party, parting of the red tomato soup, water into wine, of course the obligatory walking-on-water. Again they're cute but nothing more, no real significance other than Morgan Freeman pointing out that the soup trick was a magic trick not a real miracle. The anthropomorphic God has to do with answering prayers for things, although the scene with Carrey on the roof outside of Aniston's room praying in more than a simple request for lottery tickets, a testimony to the writers desire to be something more than physical humor. Plus this god changes his own lightbulbs, and most importantly mops his own floors, along with a short speech by Freeman about the dignity of physical labor. But what the movie is more about on the philosophic level is given in the two rules God imposes on Carrey: don't tell anyone you are god, and you can't do anything to control human freewill. There is a scene where Carrey tries to use god's power to make Aniston love him, but of course the power doesn't work under these conditions. The second hint is Freeman's last little speech to Carrey near the end about the need to exercise his own human power to get what he wants. This is the theme, God is a deus ex machina, a god-from-the-machine, nothing more than a cheap theatrical trick to pop up an anthropomorphic god who will bail human kind, or at least the hero who has gotten himself into trouble, out of their/his/our current mess. The human centered message is that life is important, the things you want are important since they are significant to you, whether love or a hot car or revenge on the block bullies or your competition at work. If you want them all you need to do if go after them, don't wait for some god-in-a-box, do it yourself. You've got the power. Carrey just screwed things up because he didn't know how to use this super-duper extended human godlike power, but he could learn, for it is nothing more than a quantity difference from normal human power to accomplish great deeds. This is the essential message, god is just an exalted man, an anthropomorphic BIG GUY, his needs and powers are just extensions of our own. So use your powers to accomplish your ends, set your goals and achieve them. The usual humanistic religious themes.
but with Jim Carrey's enjoyable physical humor to get it to slide down your throat.
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Summary: What if one of us became God...?
Review: Many movies that has God putting in an appearance have been dealt with on a superficial level, and most often, in intimate contact with just one person. Yes, there was James Mason's God in Heaven Can Wait opposite Warren Beatty,and Oh God with George Burns and John Denver. But let's tweak the formula and a Joan Osborne song: what if one of us became God? That's the question Bruce Almighty poses, and it pulls through with a charming, winning, and interesting take on the power of man and the power of God. Bruce Nolan, working for WKBW, the local ABC affiliate in Buffalo, is forty and having a bit of a crisis. He's in charge of hosting the cute, inoffensive segments, as seen in the opening of a small bakery that breaks the record for the largest chocolate-chip cookie. He aspires to be an anchorman and is a more than just a bit upset when Evan Baxter, an obnoxious co-worker who pokes fun at Bruce, becomes the new anchor, replacing the retiring one. This puts a strain on his relationship with girlfriend Grace, a kindergarden teacher, which becomes tumultuous later. After losing his job, he meets God, whom he has blamed for ignoring him, even shouting, "The only one not doing his job is you!!" To his surprise, God turns things over to Bruce and goes on holiday. Does God go on holiday, Bruce asks, to which the reply is, "Ever hear of the Dark Ages?" There are two conditions. One, he can't tell anyone. Two, he cannot override free will. However, Bruce uses/abuses his newly gained power for mostly personal gain, such as entertaining himself in a diner, cutting through a traffic jam, and getting even with some Latino toughs who gave him a going over after he gets fired. His getting even at Baxter during the latter's broadcast is the one scene I snickered at. It shows the inability of man to handle absolute power, but I won't mention that clich$B!&(Bhere. There are some moments that are a bit too much. One are the songs that lamely remind us what the movie is. For example, after Bruce takes over, Snap's "I've Got The Power" kicks in. Later, he sings Joan Osborne's "One Of Us", you know, as in "What if God were..." And at the party, we hear Mick Jagger's "God Gave Me Everything." OK, we get the idea. But what is this movie about, apart from Carrey's antics? I suppose it's knowing who we are, what our gifts are, but there's something else. Where does God's power end and human's begin? Also, what does a person really want? Is it what he/she wishes for in prayers? And do they pray because they feel they do not have the power and wherewithal to do it so they are waiting for that long hoped-for miracle? The fact that the movie poses these questions make this a success. I'd given up on Jim Carrey since The Truman Show, but he's confounded me again. He is great here as Bruce Nolan, balancing that goofy smile and faces of his with someone who can be nice but has a lot of growing up to do, needing to find out what he wants or what his true self is. This is the first time I've seen Jennifer Aniston in anything, and as Grace, she pulls a winning and convincing performance. However, Morgan Freeman wins hands down as a kindly, patient, fatherly God, the sort who puts an arm on your shoulder and has a chat while walking together. And it even charmed an atheist like me, so go figure. Reviewed by Daniel Almighty.
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Summary: Best Jim Carrey Movie Ever!
Review: In past few years Carrey hasn't really blown us away like he did with Ace Ventura, until Bruce Almighty. This is no question Jim Carrey's funniest movie. Although it makes you laugh, you may feel like repenting afterwards. I think any true Jim Carrey fan should order it now like I have, or suffer a lack of a laugh.
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Summary: sIMPLY hILARIOUS!
Review: Loved the movie. One of Jim's best films. Bestowing Jim Carrey with godlike powers is a ripe recipe for comedy, and Bruce Almighty delivers the laughs that Carrey's mainstream fans prefer. The high-concept premise finds Carrey playing Bruce Nolan, a frustrated Buffalo TV reporter, stuck doing puff-pieces while a lesser colleague gets the anchor job he covets. Bruce demands an explanation from God, who pays him a visit (in the serene form of Morgan Freeman) and lets Bruce take over while he takes a brief vacation. What does a petty, angry guy do when he's God? That's where Carrey has a field day, reuniting with his Ace Ventura and Liar, Liar director, Tom Shadyac, while Jennifer Aniston gamely keeps pace as Bruce's put-upon fiancée. This movie has several laughs and sub humor with a good plot and great acting, and this is just an all around great flick. Loved it. A must see!
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Summary: Best Jim Carrey Film!!!
Review: Bruce Almighty is my 2nd favorite movie of all time (my first being 8 Mile) but this movie is Jim Carrey at his very best.The film which is currently in the Top 5 money making films of the year.Jennifer Aniston is perfectly cast as Bruces girlfriend
Grace.Anistons performance is stunning and his far from her very moving performance as Justine Last in "The Good Girl",but she satisfies.This film I give 5 Stars,Two Thumbs up and anything else.Jim Carrey if you ever read this,I just wanna say "Keep It Up"
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Summary: "LIAR, LIAR" MEETS "THE MAJESTIC".
Review: After a few dramatic movies, "Bruce Almighty" represents the return of Jim Carrey to comedy, although the movie also includes some drama scenes. Directed by Tom Shadyac, who also directed Jim Carrey in "Ace Ventura" and in "Liar, Liar". Bruce (Jim Carrey) is a TV reporter with a streak of bad luck, and now he is unhappy with his life. Despite he has a beautiful girlfriend, Grace (Jennifer Aniston), and compared with most of the people, he is in paradise, Bruce constantly complains with God about his "bad luck". So tired of Bruce's complaints, God (Morgan Freeman, in a fantastic low key performance) appears in front of Bruce to give him His powers for a week, and to give Bruce the opportunity to make things better...if he can. "Bruce Almighty" is divided in three parts: the first part introduces Bruce to us, we find out about his job, his girlfriend, his dog and his "bad luck". The second part is by far, the best of the movie: God gives to him His powers, and Bruce uses them for his own benefit, this translates in very, very funny scenes and gags. The third part is the weakest part of the movie: filled with sentimentalism and cheesy drama, proper of Adam Sandler's cheap comedies. At the end of the day, "Bruce Almighty" is an entertaining movie, like the early 90's Jim Carrey's movies. If you are a Jim Carrey fan, you must see it. If you hate him, stay away from this movie.
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Summary: Bruce says it.
Review: It's a great movie... I really enjoyed the movie... especially when JUAN VALDES gives to Bruce the best coffee of the world, yeah... it's from Colombia!!! VIVA COLOMBIA and its COFFEE. About the movie, everybody thinks that God's work is easy... but that's a mistake... we are only responsible from our acts, God just give us a little push!!!.. dont you think?
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Summary: And that is the way the cookie crumbles.
Review: I was excpecting alot from this film and gladly was not dissapointed, Bruce Almighty is such a funny film that i was in hysterics afterwards just talking with my mates and recollecting on the amazing comedy we had just seen. Jim Carrey has only really made one or two bad movies in his time but with classics such as 'ace ventura' and 'the truman show' under his belt i can see this becoming as high profile as those films as it is just as good and maybe even better in some ways. The film maintains the same ambient feeling throughout and there is no error with the acting or comedy, Jeniffer Aniston and Morgan Freeman deliver great performances throughout. To some it up as briefly as i can the film is about a guy who keeps getting lousy reports for the news channel that he works for and everything keeps going downhill in his life so he shouts and curses god for not helping him then he meets god after numerous pager messages, gets to have gods powers for a set amount of time while god goes on holiday then Jim Carrey reaks havoc for most of the film, trust me you have to see it really it's hard to go into detail about the comedy involved and there is plenty. One of the stand out parts in Bruce Almighty is when the news reporter speaks in a really high pitched strange way due to Bruce and his powers, so if you want to see the funniest comedy movie this year then this is bound to be up there with them. Bruce Almighty is one of the few comedy films that come along that you just cant really miss as you really are missing out on something if you do as this is a highly recommendable film.
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Summary: Not what I expected...
Review: When I saw the trailers for this movie, I thought that this would be another run-of-the-mill comedy that appeals to the lowest common denominator. But I watched it anyway, and I was surprised. For one, Jim Carrey is hilarious, and it had me laughing. But what made the movie cross the line from just-another-comedy to this-is-good is that underneath the antics, it actually tries to deliver a serious message. A comedy with at least a earnest attempt at achieving some meaning. I like that.
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