Bruce Almighty
What would the world be like when Bruce finally gets a chance to act in the stead of God?
24 November 1973, Carol Stream, Illinois, USA
19 August 1960, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
25 September 1998, Fallbrook, California, USA
10 January 1980, Grand Rapids, Minnesota, USA
16 January 1963, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
13 May 1922, Chicago, Illinois, USA
13 August 1971, San Salvador, El Salvador
24 February 1961, San Antonio, Texas, USA
12 March 1953, Long Island, New York, USA
28 March 1977, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2 July 1974, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
31 October 1941, New York City, New York, USA
29 April 1952, Chicago, Illinois, USA
6 June 1967, Redwood City, California, USA
14 October 1961, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
31 May 1974, El Paso, Texas, USA
April 29, 2009
It fails to really use Carrey's comedic ability and it ultimately wastes the potential it reaps.
August 07, 2008
The inspiration flags after a while, but there are many hilarious moments, and the resolution (thanks to Jennifer Aniston as Carrey's put-upon girlfriend) is sweetly touching.
August 11, 2007
This is another of Jim Carrey's surefire vehicles that can be whittled down to a phrase: Jim Carrey is the Grinch; Jim Carrey is God.
September 21, 2010
Ultimately, Bruce Almighty is an excuse for Jim Carrey to be crazy and zany. He puts on his comedy hat and has fun with the script. It's made for the Jim Carrey fan.
May 29, 2003
It drowns [Carrey's] hilarious physicality in an ocean of sap.
December 22, 2010
Happily deranged comedy has typical Carrey humor.
May 27, 2003
Bruce takes over for the vacationing deity, but despite an initial surge of jolly, somewhat cruel chaos (as when he forces the new anchor to unreel paragraphs of gibberish on camera), things soon turn soggy.
June 24, 2006
Director Shadyac and his three scriptwriters prove much more fallibly flawed than their omnipotent hero.
January 09, 2010
For all its swings for the fences, the movie never rises above being lightly amusing.
June 13, 2003
Mr. Carrey gets some of his biggest laughs in years by playing up the darker side of his character's small-mindedness.
May 27, 2003
... on at least three or four occasions, Carrey made me laugh so hard I had tears in my eyes -- and that's a heck of a trick.
July 29, 2008
There's remarkably little done with a premise snatched from high-concept heaven, adding yet another file to the growing cabinet of under-realized comedies.
