It offers plenty of opportunities for Carrey to show off his wonderfully elastic comedy muscles.
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05/24/03
Bruce Almighty (2003)
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Reviews Counted:167
Fresh:82
Rotten:85
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: Carrey is hilarious in the slapstick scenes, but Bruce Almighty gets bogged down in treacle.
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Jim Carrey returns to his zany, manic roots in this Capraesque comedy from director Tom Shadyac (ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE and LIAR LIAR). Carrey stars as Bruce Nolan, a television reporter in... [More]
Starring: Jim Carrey, Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Aniston, Philip Baker Hall
Director: Tom Shadyac
Reviews for Bruce Almighty
Bruce Almighty has a great premise that collapses into feel-good stickiness, after an often-hilarious 45 minutes.
05/24/03
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05/24/03
Based on its wasted potential, something tells me the cinema gods wouldn't be nearly as forgiving.
05/23/03
[Director]Tom Shadyac . . . has taken this predictable, hackneyed, and astonishingly unentertaining script and rendered it lethargic, the pacing tedious
05/23/03
Jim Carrey gets the chance to shine in funny and serious scenes as he cavorts through 'Bruce Almighty'-- and he's got the power to do both.
05/23/03
It starts in darkness, moves into safe Liar Liar-type territory, and ends with boring Significance.
05/23/03
I’ve seen more wit in straight-to-video Ernest flicks.
05/23/03
One gets the feeling that for a movie star like Carrey, being God is a lateral move at best.
05/23/03
[Carrey] is so gifted a physical comedian that even mediocre material shines in his talented hands.
05/23/03
The script takes the safe, formulaic route to a predictable happy Hollywood ending, Frank Capra-style.
05/23/03
Something between an indiscretion and an atrocity, in the key of that most human yet loathsome of self-indulgences, vanity.
05/23/03
Everyone is well cast and no one more perfectly than Freeman, who is far more God-like than George Burns ever was.
05/23/03
Are you there God? It's me, Moviegoer. Please, why do movies like this happen?
05/23/03
...as much as "Bruce Almighty" has charm - it's a drab charm at best.
05/23/03
Carrey seems engaged in a kind of war with his own best comic instincts.
05/23/03
The tale goes all sentimental and preachy, which might have worked had the director been Frank Capra. But it isn't; it's Tom Shadyac.
05/23/03
The film, particularly in its first and last third, seems sadly devoid of imagination.
05/23/03
Carrey makes the most of the material, but his is only a mediocre effort and clearly far from his best work.
05/23/03
Carrey's shtick is beginning to seem tired.
05/23/03
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