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Summary: Jim Carrey's got the power!!
Review: THIS MOVIE WAS HILARIOUS!!My spleen almost exploded!It's also great cuzz it teaches you to just enjoy life.They shouldve made him show off his powers a little more,but besides that its the ultimate comedy...well almost.
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Summary: Slapstick, formula fairy tale
Review: Don't get me wrong -- Morgan Freeman is superb, and Jennifer Anniston does the best she can with this script. Credit Freeman with bringing the perfect combination of wit and warmth to his role. But I was about to walk out of the theatre at least twice. This rendition of the "supernatural intervention to make you appreciate what you have" script (done most recently by Nicolas Cage in "The Family Man", in 2000) offers nothing original.If you like Jim Carrey, you may enjoy his performance here. He really is wonderful as a struggling news feature reporter, covering fluff stories. The film falls flat because it tries to combine slapstick comedy -- in one scene, the God-like Carrey forces the news anchor to make goofy vocalizations for what seems like an interminable 2 minutes -- with religious preaching. "It's not easy to be God." "People have to love of their own free will." "Be nice to people." "Think about other people before yourself." If you already knew this, you can always giggle as Carrey gets run down by a big rig, drives his car into a light pole or (hee hee) steps in a big puddle. I'm astounded this kind of writing makes it into movies. As if all of this cliche-laden writing isn't enough, we are treated to a boy-loses-girl, boy-learns-lesson, girl forgives everything, boy-gets-girl-back happily-ever-after ending. All along, most people are going to wonder why Jennifer Anniston is living with a second-rate news reporter, why he isn't interested in her, and so on. If you're a Jim Carrey fan, none of this may matter. You will probably get a few laughs out of 'Bruce Almighty,' if for no other reason than Carrey's spastic acting style lives on here. If anyone can pull off the 'get hit by a semi' or 'step in a puddle' gags and make them work, it really is Carrey. He has some smile-inducing moments as the newsman covering a giant cookie bake and other local news-type features. But don't expect much more. I tried to like this movie, but it takes itself too seriously for what it is. In contrast, even Spielberg's 'Catch Me If You Can,' (Leondaro DiCaprio/Tom Hanks/Christopher Walken)which isn't exactly high drama, seems to bask in its lightheartedness. 'Bruce Almighty' wants to be a sermon, a cartoon and a love story all at once. Despite some great work by Freeman, it doesn't work.
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Summary: nothing special but worh watching
Review: Set in the suburbs of New York City "Bruce Almighty" is about a guy named Bruce who (you guessed it) becomes God for a few days. Aside from the awful, cheesy love story about Bruce and his girlfriend Grace, the movie is pretty funny although a tad tedious at times. The acting is pretty "lame" when it comes to the chemistry between Grace and Bruce but I wasn't expecting much from Aniston. Don't expect anything deep theologically speaking) but you might get a light-hearted time at the movie theatres (as unenjoyable as it sometimes gets[...]) The humor is mostly slap-stick and over-the-top
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Summary: Glad I saw it...
Review: When I first heard of the movie, I thought it would be one where it was "too" funny, if you know what I mean and one in which made no sense. I was surprised to find out, however that I really enjoyed it and think that this is one of Jim Carrey's better movies, comparable to Liar Liar and The grinch who Stole Christmas. It's very funny but not "too funny", it and it has a very good message.
I like Jennifer Aniston as the fiancee and Morgan Freeman as God himself. The movie is about a man who has "bad luck" and takes it out on God. God then asks if Bruce Nolan [Jim Carrey's character] can do better and gives Bruce his powers while he takes a little vacation. The best part in the movie is when Bruce makes Evan Baxter, his rival, screw up live on camera.
I really enjoyed this movie and if you are a Christian and are doubtful if this is a movie to see, see it because I am and I'm happy how they portrayed everything. See it!
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Summary: Jim Carrey at his finest
Review: Bruce Almighty is truly Jim Carrey at his finest. It's amazingly fun, yet uncanningly clean. Jim Carrey finds himself set up in a live TV broadcast and loses it on air after finding out that his rival has been promoted to the news anchor job he coveted. After blowing his lid, Carrey loses his job. In despair, he does what mankind has been doing for centuries--blames God. After a day of moping, God (played quite convincingly by Morgan Freeman) grants Carrey His powers. Of course, "Bruce Almighty" wreaks havoc on his professional rival and scoops the big stories by "creating" disasters as he pleases. The role of God begins to overwhelm him when he answers "yes" to too many prayer requests and his girlfriend (the incredible Jennifer Anniston) begins to turn her back on him. In the end, Carrey learns the power of the free will of mankind and learns the beauty of surrender to the will of God. A great movie. Remarkably funny and also very Bibically based. Enjoy!
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Summary: Funny but not disturbing, have a good time movie
Review: I have the hobby, I always after great movies and love to see masterpieces as "Pianist". But when you have the need just to have a good time and enjoy the movie, this is one for you without being annoyed of too much vulgarity and stupidity. Jim Carrey as the comedy actor came suddenly on my list from unacceptable stupid kind of movies that I never would watch. Now I will say that he refined the acting to more funny and intelligant performance. I can watch his movies even sometimes it is not my style of jokes that he is making. I do not have to leave the movie theater, I even can enjoy it sometimes. This is a life wisom in the plot, not complicated too much that you cannot figure it out but it is almost predictable.... But I had a good time and relaxed which was the purpose of the film, it is not the Oscar movie and not even close to be on the classics...... but I did not care......... I laughed couple of times and that was good.
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Summary: Enjoyable but had more potential
Review: The concept behind "Bruce Almighty" is a universally appreciated one. What would you do if you could be God? Much of the enjoyment of "Bruce Almighty" comes out of watching Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey) do just that, and we get to live vicariously through him. While that concept is enjoyable, the filmmakers failed to fully realize the possibilities. The film starts with a wonderful premise and ends up becoming a clichéd and predictable romantic-comedy/after-school-special-lesson movie. When Nolan's life begins to go down the tubes and blames God, he gets the chance of a lifetime. He's God while the real guy in white goes on vacation. So what does Nolan do with his newfound power? He does what anyone red-blooded human would do and abuses it. Sure it leads to some great scenes early on in the film - none of which I will spoil here ? but the film seems to gloss over so much of where it could have gone. What if he had goofed up and granted prayers that never should have been granted? What if that one prayer he answered caused cataclysmic events and he had to solve the situation. What about the moral dilemmas that could result from having ultimate power? These are all just some ideas I thought would have been great to explore in the film. Just think of all the great comical events that could have happened with them. But the filmmakers instead took the old and clichéd route of "boy has girl, boy looses girl, boy tries to get girl back." Now why would you resort to that tired route when you're in the middle of a greater story about becoming God? Perhaps I'm being too hard on "Bruce Almighty." It was enjoyable and had several great moments. It just could have been a lot better then just another Jim Carrey movie. It could have been, but wasn't. I'm sure I'll get some heat for this review, but that's all right. If you want to click that this review wasn't helpful just because I shared my honest reaction, go ahead. But at least I offered an explanation for why I was disappointed with this flick. If you love Jim Carrey movies, I?m sure you?ve already seen it, and if not you will probably love it. But if you're unsure on whether or not to see "Bruce Almighty," just wait till it hits video. In a summer saturated with many "must see" films, this one doesn't really have anything that won't be just as enjoyable in your own living room six months from now.
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Summary: Be a miracle yourself
Review: I have a terrible day and this movie is what I need. I want to laugh out loud and it also delivers a message that we are capable to make those miracle ourselves. I have a good laugh every few minutes and it cheers me up all day. Thank you Jim Carey,
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Summary: Never mind God, never mind Bruce; who's "Susan Ortega"?
Review: After a quick search at IMDb, I learned that the woman who plays female anchor "Susan Ortega" is someone named Catherine Bell. Can me and my fellow horndogs expect to see more of her in the very near future? In the immemorial words of Eddie Money: "I think I'm in love". In fact, I may see this otherwise horrible movie again when it arrives on Pay-Per-View, and with my new invaluable "iControl" feature on my digital cable system, I'll be able to simply skip to the parts in which the devastating Miss Bell appears. While I was in the theater watching this dreck, I was certainly performing the mental equivalent of "iControl": I tuned out the rest of garbage, sleepily munched the ole popcorn, and would revive only when I heard that spicy trilled "r" on "Ortega" (Orrr-TAY-gahhh). Too bad the rest of this movie wasn't half as memorable. We get Jim Carrey in the Worst of Both Worlds: insufferable Jerry Lewisian face-maker, and teary-eyed sap. He plays an annoyingly shrill "human-interest" reporter for a news station in Buffalo. Failing to get a promotion to anchor, he explodes into an inexplicably blasphemous tirade. ("God sucks!", and so forth.) Just as inexplicably, this gets the attention of the Big Man Upstairs. Who, naturally, turns out to be Morgan Freeman. The role of God is not exactly a stretch for him: he's been playing saintly roles for two decades now. The unlikely duo have a unimaginative tete-a-tete during which the Supreme Being resorts to parlor tricks like giving Carrey two extra fingers on his hand, in order to prove His Eminence. Finally, He endows the reporter with all His powers, basically saying, "See if YOU can do better!" Well, since the recipient of such omnipotence is Jim Carrey, you can swear on a stack of Bibles that he'll use it to do stuff like make small monkeys burst out of people's pants. Haw haw. And you can also bet that the movie will veer towards unbearable sanctimony for the last twenty minutes (God: "A child getting an education instead of getting on drugs -- now that's a miracle.") But what am I complaining about? It's summertime -- time for opiates for the masses.
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Summary: Hilarious for the 1st half, good for the 2nd half
Review: I give Bruce Almighty 4 stars because it wasn't completely comedic. The first half was absolutely comic genius. After the scene with Evan Baxter(Steve Correl) in the anchor room, which was just CACKLING FUNNY, the movie took on a more dramatic/tragic tone. Jim Carrey is just not a dramatic actor. I was having trouble not laughing at the moments where he was being serious because he LOOKS funny acting them. Mr. Carrey needs to stick with straight comedy. Still, I greatly enjoyed this movie and recommend it to any Jim Carrey fan.
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