Bruce Almighty

On Saturday night I went to see Bruce Almighty with Katie and Val while we were in Herkimer visiting the Diamond Mines (more on that in a seperate post). What a funny movie! I thought it was more like Liar Liar than Ace Ventura, but it was still incredibly hilarious. It also had a cute romance plot.

So as not to spoil it for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, I’m going to cut the rest of the review!

You can read a plot summary and lots of good and bad things about it at the IMDB link above. The one major criticism I have about the movie is that they took the “you need to pray, god is listening” thing a bit too far. I do have to say that Morgan Freeman played a very believable god character (much better than Alanis Morrisette in Dogma!), but at the same time I felt that by the end of the movie I was having some religion spoonfed to me.

I don’t think that they were necessarily trying to convert anyone, but I do think there was a religously-motivated agenda someone somewhere was trying to push. I wouldn’t necessarily mind that because it was a Jim Carrey movie, afterall, but it was a little overtly obvious.

I think the review from Delaware Online said it best:

“Bruce Almighty” looks like Jim Carrey’s big return to the kind of broad physical comedy he made his name with. And it is — until about two-thirds of the way through, when it turns into a very special episode of “Touched by an Angel.”

Everything else was classic Jim Carrey and absolutely amazing, my only complaint being that it was a bit too religous. If you can look past that, it was a great movie!