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Summary: B-E-A-UTIFUL
Review: In the gentle comedy "Bruce Almighty", Jim Carrey plays Bruce Nolan, a fluff-reporter who longs to become anchorman. When he is passed over for a promotion, Bruce curses God to his girlfriend, Grace (Jennifer Aniston), insisting that God's rule of the world is not satisfactory and that he could do a much better job of running the world himself. What he is not expecting, however, is for God (Morgan Freeman) to appear and give him this very responsibility and privilege.
The film is predictable but successful in its portrayal of what the world would be like if a human being, and a disgruntled one at that, was given the task of ruling the world. Jim Carrey achieves most of his laughs through his slapstick humor and characteristic goofiness. Meanwhile, Jennifer Aniston adequately plays her part as the devoted, do-gooder girlfriend who stands beside Bruce in supporting his career ambitions even when he is too wrapped up in himself to realize she is yearning for him to propose. The deadpan, cool-as-a-cucumber demeanor of Morgan Freeman's God is well-matched with Bruce's playful humor.
Perhaps the film suffers most when it oversteps its boundaries in terms of making a statement about morality. Rather than simply portraying Bruce as selfish and acknowledging that no person is fit for the task of "playing God", the film throws in a contrast between Bruce and Grace. According to Grace's best friend, every night before she goes to bed, Grace kneels down and prays. She also works in a day-care center and donates blood to blood-drives.
Aside from this cheesiness, "Bruce Almighty" works in the sense that it is an amusing film filled with light-hearted laughs that ponders the age-old question of what would happen if a mere mortal was ever made to fill the shoes of the Alpha and Omega. The best time to watch this flick is if you are in need of a fluffy comedy to calm you down or relax your nerves. Otherwise, the Hollywood sappiness of religious controversy may bother you.
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Summary: One of his best.
Review: This is definitley one of his best movies. This one is far different from Ace Ventura and The Mask.Jim Carrey plays a man named Bruce Nolan who is a TV reporter in Buffalo. Along the way, there are a few misshaps that lead him to meet GOD played by Morgan Freeman. GOD gives him his powers after Bruce makes a few bad comments about the way he is doing his job and tells him to see if he can do better. He starts off righting some wrongs in his own life and forgets about other's prayers. There are many misshaps and struggles along the way as he tries to figure out what he is supposed to do. With everything that is happening, there are many jokes and funny scenes that make you laugh throughout the whole movie. For me, only Ace Ventura and Liar Liar are as good as this movie. A must for any Jim Carrey fan.
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Summary: An EVIL movie
Review: Let me get this straight, Morgan Freeman is God in this movie. Morgan Freeman was on Electric Company on PBS. PBS is the same station that produces Sesame Street. Sesame Street has the devil himself "Elmo". Elmo and the devil are both red, walk funny, and are pure evil. By this process we can prove this movie is about the devil.
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Summary: Amorality Exists Untamed In Hollywood, The Moral Sinkhole!!!
Review: Note the absolutely calculated sarcasm in this opening line: What a biiiiiig surprise that Hollywood, the entertainment industry, filled to the brim with "people" who're ALWAYS crowing about their constitutional rights to free expression and censorship, are, AS USUAL, then deliberately doing wrong and not adhering to the same so-called standard of "principles", when it comes to other areas, namely religion and Hollywood's relentlessly long-standing desecration of the truth that God, as a deity, exists. Sordidly, even though it's enormously obvious, this double-standard hypocrisy out of the left-wing entertainment "community" comes as NO SURPRISE AT ALL, when you, in an ignominious retrospect, look back at the wickedly pro-communistic and anti-war stance from these dangerous leftist-lovers, disclosed never as infernally as the past couple of months, when they had a whole myriad of things to take advantage of, namely the Iraqi war and the signature-signing backing of Fidel Castro! In other words, when it comes to big show matters that grab a severity of publicity, Hollywood, the maker of this religiously offensive fare disguised as a comedic movie, ruthlessly pretends to be at the forefront of morals when it suits them, yet in more basic issues of morality, mercilessly and willfully misjudges, such as this movie of blasphemous enormities. Particularly distressing is the tactically menacing plan by the sinister distributing studio to hide these severely heavy dilemmas inside of a comedy, where "people" are unfortunately more likely to forgive it or not notice all together, and worse even, to boot, featuring a purportedly "popular", slapstick actor, who'll just continue to aid and abet, and conceal the ethical violation of writing a movie where God is taken in vain through the whole sacrilegious train wreck by being lowered to human's standards. Quite clearly in fact, the Decalogue---or Ten Commandments---for those heathens who might read this and thus be totally lost, spells out about 2 different, straightforward contraventions that this adverse movie from Universal and by non-believing atheist Tom "heretic" Shadyac perpetrates. Specifically line 2, where the Catholic Bible says to not take the Lord's name in vain, or abuse it. This intentionally irreligious production--with single-minded determination on only making a profit--definitely qualifies for the deadliest breach possible that a person could commit, by representing the Morgan Freeman character first as God, and then by dictating that a human (Carrey) could ever be anywhere as great as God, by handing him God's "powers". A potential ordeal that mislead the filmmakers to blaspheme lowering God onto a human level is probably a total lack of enlightenment in theology, an all too common predicament for the lost souls out there who qualify as agnostics. It's worse than ridiculous to describe God's abilities as "powers", like He'd be a meanly superhero or villain, because in catechism, God is represented as a being eternally the most superlative force in the universe, Whose status as the almighty is never temporary, and thus would never have his "powers" "revoked" from Him. Another misdirection that this impure movie dissipates into is the totally inexpert struggle by the spin doctors who were hired by said studio to, in a version of 'damage control', explain away the sacrilegious theme of the movie. They ineptly stumble to this by reasoning out that the "message" of the film is really "positive" because it shows that if someone "prays" for something that they'll get what they want, and that God (Freeman) will teach those a lesson who question Him (Carrey). Inevitably, I'm pressured to retrospect, "What the heck?!?!?!?!?!?!?" This is yet another dissoluteness confessing the humiliatingly brittle education those atheists have about theology because the church itself teaches that, since this is a matter of the mystery of faith, God doesn't reward people who ask selfishly only for favors unto themselves, otherwise religion would be cheapened to an equivalent of selling indulgences! Furthermore, most of the time, even people who licitly have much more righteous and serious requests don't get their prayers answered, and certainly not "people" who beg of God these blackly idiotic and nauseating requests to prove Himself to them, incidentally another sacrilege, since you're not supposed to put God to the test. Also low-brow is the sophist "reasoning" that God teaches Carrey a lesson, so this makes for a "positive" "message". That impious premise is really an outlandish degradation of what theology strictly forbids: namely the fact that anyone will never be on a comparable level with God. Rest assured, those $85 million worth of you religiously unconscientious atheists who outrightly put materialistic pleasure over virtuous to go see this film, you can still catch intentionally unprincipled Hollywood's assault on core family values in almost all their releases anyway. More affronting in this movie is the purposeful monstrosity of swearing, which was utterly unnecessary, and only serves to malignantly worsen an already fearsomely God-assailing movie. Then again, it's sorrowfully predictable that the unscrupulous entertainment industry would stoop to this level because they enormously back other dirty things, like communism, socialism, universal health care and illegal immigration, all because of polluted, weak mentalities that exaggerate the fictitious good of an idea---rather than the reality of it. Thank goodness the current Republican majority's curtailing Hollywood's relentless breaching vices of lustful and excessive sex, willful violence and obscenities that are despairingly scattered over fiendishly many of their products. Lastly, the most miscreant demoralization is that EACH AND EVERY ONE of the previous reviewers beastly connived with this unfearing movie and did not in any of their many reviews---meaning that their trespassing is more also---ever realize this woeful lapse of judgment and chide this film the absolute way that it dooms itself to be.
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Summary: Back to What He Does Best
Review: Looking back on Jim Carrey's vast array of films there are some comedy classics, and then there are some to forget all together. Although this film is a long way of being in the 'comedy classic' genre such as the brilliant Dumb and Dumber it's still funny and most of all it still entertains. On screen Carrey puts his all into his acting, he msut be exhausted after filming with the amount of energy he puts into it all. At the same time he makes the character, in this film 'Bruce', come alive and creates a character that we can all recognise and sympathise with as we all have (frequent) bad days. In a way we are laughing with him and not at him as he wreaks havoc playing 'God' and using his powers to his own selfish advantages instead of helping others. Here is the films only real downfall, that it can't seem to make up it's mind whether it's going to be an all out funny film or a film that teaches us an important moral lesson. It continually wavers between the two and hence you never feel completely satisfied that you have received the message the film was trying to convey. The film really clicks, mainly because Carrey has excellent support from Morgan Freeman as God and Jennifer Anniston as Bruce's girlfriend. The portrayal of God by Morgan Freeman is original and interesting and Anniston once again shows that Friends is not the beginning and end of her acting career. The film can be summed up in one word, 'hilairious,' and I don't think anyone would be dissappointed upon seeing it. People who have found Carrey's rubber faced acting beginning to grate on their nerves over the past couple of years should still give this film a go as Carrey pulls out all the stops and once again comes good.
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Summary: Simple but amusing
Review: While not quite on the level of Jim Carrey's classics "Liar Liar" and "The Cable Guy," "Bruce Almighty" is certainly an entertaining movie that makes for a nice enough rental on a slow night. The movie lets Carrey play to his strengths with lots of sarcasm and physical comedy as Bruce Nolan, a struggling TV reporter whose frustration at not getting the anchor job he wants has reached a boiling point. Perhaps even better, the movie co-stars Jennifer Aniston, best described by one writer as "the extremely hot chick who you feel like you could actually have a chance with," as Bruce's long-time girlfriend Grace, and the equally hot Catherine Bell as co-worker of Bruce's. The pace is fast, the laughs come often, and you won't have to think too much. In other words, "Bruce Almighty" is a quintessential Carrey movie. When the movie starts, Bruce is facing a problem all too many of us have to deal with: he's pushing 40, he's hit a dead end at work, and he feels as though his life is meaningless. His pent-up dissatisfaction all comes to a head when he loses out on the coveted new anchor spot to a smarmy colleague, leading to an utterly hilarious on-camera meltdown that easily ranks among the top moments of Carrey's film career. Adding to Bruce's troubles, Grace is getting impatient on the thorny issue of marriage, his dog won't stop peeing on his chair, and right after getting fired he gets beaten up by a bunch of Latino gang members. In other words, Bruce is looking at a midlife crisis of epic proportions, and all he can think to do is ask God for some answers. Well naturally, this being a movie, God answers Bruce's request, appearing to him in the gentle form of the great Morgan Freeman. It seems God wants some time off, and since Bruce seems to think he can do such a good job in the role, it's his for the taking. It's a pretty intriguing concept that I'm sure a lot of people have thought about, and the movie lets Carrey have a lot of fun exploring just what a regular guy would do if he were granted the powers of the almighty. There are some pretty brilliant moments to be found as Bruce plays with his new powers, none more hysterical than when he seduces Grace in one of film history's all-time greatest love scenes. Of course, there needs to be some conflict, and as the movie goes on Bruce learns that being God isn't quite what it's cracked up to be. It even carries with it some responsibility, and of course no one wants that. Towards the end, when we're hit with the inevitable moral lesson, things start to get a bit syrupy as Bruce is forced to reevaluate his priorities and decide what the good life really is. Still, any concluding sappiness notwithstanding, "Bruce Almighty" is a quality bit of comedy from one its best practitioners. I recommend it to anyone who has an hour and a half to kill, and it's especially good as a compromise pick for couples.
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Summary: Like to laugh? Then see this Picture!
Review: Just made the fifth star, but it is still an excellent comedy that had me laughing.
If you like JC then you will dig this flick.
If you want to relieve stress then see this flick.
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Summary: !!!BUTTOCKS IN JIM CARRY'S FACE!!!
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Summary: The Latest flick for Jim Carrey
Review: This movie was very brutally short it should have definantly have been longer.He was with Rachel(Jennifer Anniston) and he loved her but he got fired then he found out he could get some powers and play god,so he has things happen like for instance finding Jimmy Hoffa are putting some girls dress up.As I said he should have had his powers for a little Longer this movie is in the long run some what of a dark comedy is modestly good.
Acting 8 Story 8 Direction 7 Action 7 Entertainment 8 Overall=40/50 nice for 4 stars is somewhat recommended
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Summary: A comedy for the new ages that will definately be a classic.
Review: I am sure it takes a lot of tact to direct a movie about God that isn't too sac-religous, and it is even harder if that movie you are directing is a comedy. Some of the movie was vulgar, and not suitable for a church viewing, but the idea that a man who hates God can be trasformed into a good person is a good concept. I personally think that if you took the idea and the story into Bible times, it could really happen. The movie was funny (I mean come on, it is Jim Carrey) and the movie also had heart and feeling, which some comedy films nowadays lack. Jennifer Aniston played a really good role as usual, and Morgan Freeman was a good choice to play the Almighty himself. The film teaches a valuable lesson to learn, and it could ultimately bring out the best in a person. I highly reccomend this movie, one of the best of 2003.
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