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Bruce Nolan is a local Eyewitness News TV reporter in Buffalo, New York, best known for doing human-interest stories--which makes everyone happy but him. Bruce would much rather be replacing the soon-...( read more 
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MCT:August 20, 2008This movie was pretty clever. I know it's just entertainment, but it shows that God can work in mysterious ways.
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MCT:August 20, 2008this is another story which tells about how we cant do anything, when God commands us to do something..
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MCT:August 20, 2008oh waite a movie were a guy gets gods powers and does not stop people from killing each other shocking i know
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MCT:August 19, 2008good the way if ye put ye self in his shoes ye would know how other ppl felt when they r under alot of presure
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MCT:August 18, 2008WOO! LOVE IT! i like the part when he makes steve carell make those freaky noises...when he like poses him lol!!
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MCT:August 17, 2008I have this movie and I must say I think it is one of the funniest movies Jim Carrey has ever done plu he is one of my favorite actors.
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MCT:August 16, 2008
Doesn't hold up as well as I thought it would, but a quality flick nonetheless. And it allows us filmographic proof of what we've all known for so long...that Morgan Freeman IS God.
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MCT:August 15, 2008
There is about Jim Carrey a desperate urgency that can be very funny, as he plunges with manic intensity after his needs and desires. In "Bruce Almighty," he plays a man for whom the most important thing on earth is to become an anchor on a Buffalo TV station. When he fails to achieve this pinnacle, he vents his anger at the very heavens themselves, challenging God to show and explain himself.
One could argue that Bruce Nolan, Carrey's character, is not necessarily qualified to be an anchor, on the basis of two remote reports we see him delivering, one from the scene of a chocolate chip cookie of record-breaking size, the other from on board an anniversary cruise of the Maid of the Mist, the famous Niagara Falls tour boat. During the cruise he learns while on the air, live, that he will not be getting the coveted anchor job, and goes ballistic, even uttering the dread f-word in his dismay.
Now that may argue that he is a loose cannon and not fit to anchor anyway (although he would be replacing a man whose primary skill seems to be smiling). Nevertheless, in anger and grief, and facing the loss of the love of his faithful girlfriend Grace (Jennifer Aniston), he calls upon God, and God answers.
God is, in this case, a man in a white suit, played by Morgan Freeman with what can only be described as godlike patience with Bruce. Since Bruce is so dissatisfied with the job God is doing, God turns the controls of the universe over to him--or at least, the controls over his immediate neighborhood in Buffalo, although at one point these limited powers seem to extend directly above Buffalo to such an extent that Bruce is able to change the distance of the moon, causing tidal waves in Japan.
"Bruce Almighty," directed by Tom Shadyac and written by Steve Oedekerk, Steve Koren and Mark O'Keefe, is a charmer, the kind of movie where Bruce learns that while he may not ever make a very good God, the experience may indeed make him a better television newsman.
The problem with playing God, the movie demonstrates, is that when such powers are entrusted to a human, short-term notions tend to be valued higher than long-term improvement plans. Consider, for example, the way Bruce deals with a dog that pees in the house (the payoff shot, showing the dog learning a new way to use the newspaper, had me laughing so loudly that people were looking at me). And consider Bruce's methods for dealing with traffic jams, which work fine for Bruce, but not so well for everyone else; when you're God, you can't think only of yourself.
Freeman plays God with a quality of warm detachment that is just about right, I think. You get the feeling that even while he's giving Bruce the free ride, he has a hand on the wheel, like a drivers' training instructor. Aniston, as a sweet kindergarten teacher and fiancee, shows again (after "The Good Girl") that she really will have a movie career, despite the small-minded cavils of those who think she should have stayed on television. She can play comedy, which is not easy, and she can keep up with Carrey while not simply mirroring his zaniness; that's one of those gifts like being able to sing one song while typing the words to another.
Whether "Bruce Almighty" is theologically sound, I will leave to the better qualified. My own suspicion is that if you have God's power even in a small area like Buffalo, it's likely to set things spinning weirdly everywhere. If a butterfly can flap its wings in Samoa and begin a chain of events leading to a tropical storm in the Caribbean, think what could happen when Bruce goes to work. -
MCT:August 14, 2008
A master of a film and a master of a performance from jim carrey who plays bruce noland a news reporter struggling for a new promotion in the news buisness.
With hilarious laughs and funny scenes this film deals with how one man beleives he is getting picked on by god ... how wrong indeed he is .. 5 stars -
MCT:August 13, 2008
even though the movie is quite funny, ilearned a lot of lessons from it. And we even use it as a movie presentation for our Theology class.
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MCT:August 13, 2008
It's a good film, quite funny...I did go and see the sequal (Evan Almighty) I came out of the cinema and realised how much time i had just wasted on seeing a crap film!
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MCT:August 11, 2008
just take a nice sit & enjoy this hilarious movie. dont be such an smartass-relating-anything-with-religion.
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MCT:August 10, 2008
How would you handle the most awesome responsibility in the universe?Now either you like Mr Carrey's humour or you don't. and i love this guy and his acting!!
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MCT:August 10, 2008
great movie and teaching tool. jim carrey and morgan freeman were excellent as usual and i fell in love with steve carrell in this film
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MCT:August 10, 2008
PREFERABLE TO THE WOEFUL SEQUEL. IT DOESN'T PRETEND TO BE ANYTHING IT'S NOT. WITH A HILARIOUS PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE BY CARREY IT RISES ABOVE IT'S AVERAGE SCRIPT. SIMPLY,A POPCORN CHOMPING FEEL GOOD MOVIE.
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MCT:August 10, 2008
lmao thats all i have to say
Omg also my fave movie!!!!!!!!!!! It's Halerious! Love it! -
OMG!!
I got the powerrr!!
jim carrey beats steve carell any day with that evan almighty shit!!
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MCT:August 7, 2008
me encanta Jim Carry, y esta peli esta buena, sobre todo cuando el recien se da cuenta de que tiene poderes :D
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MCT:August 7, 2008
The movie itself had a nice story but to be completely honest I think Jim Carrey can overdo it a bit sometimes.
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MCT:August 7, 2008
A unique Jim Carrey's performance, as he really IS funny, not just tries to be... A disappointed man blames God for his failures, so he becomes gifted with God's power himself. And, of course, discovers that it's not so easy to make everybody happy, despite trying hard...
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MCT:August 7, 2008
Funny. Great acting. Great script. The idea itself is enough and they executed it well. It was a tad cheesy but still entertaining.
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MCT:August 6, 2008
Seriously funny. Great movie to watch if you want some assurance that God is there and if you need a little pick-me-up.
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MCT:August 6, 2008
Ah, this is okay. It was sooo funny, but it makes me wish I could do everything and that is not possible. Too bad 4 me.
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MCT:August 5, 2008
wena pelicula divertida y muy entretenida un toq muy interezante y con razones px su actor principal es de categoria px.........
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80saremylifeposted 106 days ago -
this movie whit Jim Carrey is funny.I love you Jim you are so funny!!realy
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i love this movie,it's great.
"And I do da cha cha like a sissy girl...I likea do da cha cha."
ha ha so f****** good movieposted 304 days ago -
this is the funniest movie i´ve ever seen!!!
i love jim carrey...he is so funny...i like jennifer aniston too and morgan freeman!!!posted 310 days ago -
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Fantatic funny film, makes you laugh, think and maybe, for the more-emotionally challenged among us, cry. Classic Carrey,with great on-screen chemistry with Anniston, Morgan is a perfect god and It all works really well. Love the Evan bits!
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