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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: I wanted to buy this movie very much because I love Jim Carrey. The man cracks me up. I'm glad that I didn't purchase this movie though, because it was not what I expected. I'm very glad that my nephew's friend let us borrow his. The only scenes that were funny was when Jim first got his powers and he started singing "I got the power" by the '90's group Snap. And when he made the other news reporter talk gibberish. I thought that was hilarious. Other than that, it was not all that fantastic. It did however, have a good moral to the story. So please people, do not go out and waste your money on this one. Borrow it from someone like I did, and judge for yourself.
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Summary: Jim Carrey fooled ya!
Review: The concept of ordinary man being granted God's power is a proposition that could lead to inconceivable suffering or hilarity of heavenly magnitude. Thankfully in this film it is hilarity. The movie is full of the great sorts of Jim Carrey humor that so many of us know and love. The scene where Jim's charachter uses his power to make the news anchor babble incoherently made me laugh harder than I have laughed in a long time. Steve Carrel does wonderfully in this scene and really makes it work. Jennifer Anniston play's Carrey's love interest and Bruce uses his powers to do what any normal red blooded male would do with God-like powers: Cause his woman to climax from an entirely different room. While the scene was meant to be funny, every guy who watches this is going to be thinking "I wonder if you can really do that..." Every girl will probably be thinking the same thing. The suprising thing about the movie is that the basic story is one of a very serious and religious nature. The comedy is just the wrapping paper that conceals a concept of deep philosophical and religious consequence: God's wisdom and will versus the will and wisdom of man. My pastor has even toyed with the idea of showing this film to the congregation (slightly edited, of course) as a lesson about how we should view God. It is a very good film with some great comedy thrown in. Plus it has Jennifer Anniston faking an orgasm. How can you possibly go wrong? =)
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Summary: Pure Comedy!
Review: When you go to see a Jim Carey movie, you expect nothing less than a comdeic genious at his best performance. Well, Bruce Almighty has exactly that! This is a hilarious movie with a very interesting storyline. It also stars my favorite actress, the beautiful Jennifer Aniston as Jim Carey's love interest in the movie. What would you do if you had all of the powers of God? If I were him, I'd zap a copy of this movie into every household on the planet so that everyone could enjoy it countless times! One of Jim Carey's best films!
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Summary: Good acting, but plot has been done too many times....
Review: Although funny in places, and despite excellent performances by Jim Carrey, Morgan Freeman and Jennifer Aniston, the plot was weak. Bruce gets denied a job he wants, starts feeling sorry for himself for having a mediocre life, and winds out getting a little hand up from God himself; who endows Bruce with all his Godlike powers. Bruce likes using the powers to better his own life, but finds it impossible to meet the prayer demands of the other millions of souls in his hometown alone. The funniest part of the movie is when Bruce takes revenge on the anchorman whose job he wanted, making him speak idiotically and rant and rave on the air. Pretty hilarious. But the plot, while seemingly a great idea, does not have enough gas to fuel an entire movie; leaving us with a sappy, predictable ending and bringing it down to the level of just another movie to rent. Three stars only, worth a rental but not a purchase.
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Summary: Pariah Carrey
Review: bruce almight is more of the same stuff that jim carrey always does. but he does it so well. he makes faces. he contorts his body. he does three stoogey type of slapstick humor. the story is cute. very cool special effects. it didn't knock me out. it didnt put me to sleep either. morgan freeman...is god! jack e. jett
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Summary: Warning: UNINTERRUPTIBLE! Advertising ahead
Review: I LOVE this movie, it is warm, funny, and only the least bit irreverent... but I HATE the DVD. Why? You are FORCED to view about 10 minutes of "previews". That's right folks, not only do you get to read the FBI warning, but you also get nearly 10 minutes of UNINTERRUPTIBLE previews! Stop won't work, select another chapter is prohibitted - at least on my recent vintage progressive scan Panasonic DVD player. Someone needs to be taken out the the woodshed! Note without this annoying feature, the movie would get 5 stars from me. With the unwelcome previews... well, you can pop the corn, teach your dog to flush the toilet, and brew a pot of coffee before you'll be able to start watching what you actually paid for! BONUS FEATURES! Of interest are the "bonus features" including scads of deleted scenes and outtakes. For example, there is one scene (shown on TV ads) where the conniving news anchor can't seem to say anything intelligible. It is side splitting funny! Fortunately what is left in the movie is *tastefully* mean. The alternative you find in the deleted scenes involves nasty bodily mayhem to the poor S.O.B. The treatment is so mean spirited it makes Bruce's character disgusting, not amusing. In this case, I give two thumbs up to the editors for choosing the high road. Some other scenes are similarly justly removed. And a few even give you some insights into things that might not otherwise make sense. If you've seen the movie you may recall a big party scene in a large mansion. One of the coffee tables is covered about a foot deep in shrimp. In the deleted scenes, you learn why! Yeah, the editors did a good job - but the numbnuts who wrote the DVD script... they deserve massive nosebleeds and flaming hairdos.
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Summary: i like full screen
Review: it's a funny movie it's one of Jim Carries best movies. i like wide screen but i like full screen better.
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Summary: bonus features included mastercard commercial....
Review: I do not consider it to be a bonus feature to get to watch a mastercard commercial (yes, this is listed as a choice in bonus features).
What is really irritating with this DVD is that you have 4 or so previews of other movies that are advertised as coming to DVD before you get to the point where the DVD will let you into the menu to start the movie. I have to fast forward through previews to get past them (I am using WinDVD on my pc).
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Summary: there is a message
Review: when i bought the DVD, i brought it in to my thology class in my school, and we watched it. the movie was hilarious in many ways, and it had my class rolling on the floor. the movie really grips you and makes you want to continue watching. my theology teacher enjoyed the movie and had us write a paper on the central theme. We are gods arms and legs. be the miracle. the movie is about a news reporter who is a little down on his luck. He begins to grow angry with G-d because he felt G-d was ignoring him. He little by little begins to go insane, from bottling up his anger. When he gets promoted to the live news, he lets it all out. Because of this, he looses his job. That's the last straw. He throws the prayer beads his girlfriend gave him into the ocean and begins yelling at G-d. He then gets continuous pages from 555-0123, telling him to go to a warehouse to relieve him of his problems. He meets G-d there and receives g-ds powers to show bruce that its not as easy as it looks to be g-d. when havoc breaks after bruce avoids the peoples prayers, he surrenders to g-ds will! really a great movie.
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Summary: Great Fun!!!!
Review: Carrey at his best! I went to see this in the movie theatre and i was laughing the whole way through, buy! buy! buy! especially if your a Carrey fan, this is his stongest point in his career, this movie is so funny, everyone in the theatre was on the floor, literally (really!), I let my mother watch who doesn't really laugh at things easily, and i put this movie on, and the scene with Bruce making his rival anchor talk jiberiah was the first time in my like that i have every heard her laugh so heard, really! You have to have a sense of humor though. It's great fun i recommend it to anyone with a sense of humor. Carrey's the best!
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