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Giving Steve Carell a long-overdue leading role in a mainstream Hollywood comedy, Evan Almighty is the sequel to the huge Jim Carrey hit Bruce Almighty. And while Carrey isn’t on the cast list this time round, director Tom Shadyac and Morgan Freeman are among the many returnees.
The focus of Evan Almighty switches to Carell’s Evan Baxter, last seen as a newsreader but now an elected official, who is chosen by God (Freeman) to build a new ark. And this ark needs, as you’d expect, to hold two of each species on the planet. Naturally, all the people around Evan think he’s gone mad, and this proves a healthy comedy mine that’s well exploited.
Evan Almighty isn’t without a few problems, though. The focus of the film isn’t always tight enough on generating the laughs, and Carell is surprisingly under-used. He’s on form when the material allows him to shine, but its often (admittedly impressive) special effects that end up taking centre stage, an odd road to choose for a comedy.
That said, Evan Almighty is still an enjoyable family comedy, and it’s not without rewatch value. It’s a fun little movie, and one that deserves extra credit for promoting Carell to top billing--that's a move long overdue. --Jon Foster
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Steve Carell (The 40-Year-Old Virgin), reprising his role as the polished, preening newscaster Evan Baxter of Bruce Almighty, is the next one anointed by God to accomplish a holy mission in the hilarious new comedy Evan Almighty. Blockbuster comedy director Tom Shadyac (The Nutty Professor, Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty) returns behind the camera for this next episode of divine intervention. This time, however, his cast grows two-by-two.
Newly elected to Congress, Evan leaves Buffalo behind and shepherds his family to suburban northern Virginia. Once there, his life gets turned upside-down when God (Morgan Freeman) appears and mysteriously commands him to build an ark. But his befuddled family just can't decide whether Evan is having an extraordinary mid-life crisis or is truly onto something of Biblical proportions...
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Aria-May
Format:DVD
I was reluctant to watch this file as I thought that it might be similar to Bruce Almighty - fortunately my fears were quickly laid to rest. I found this film to be a lovely, gentle comedy and really great entertainment on a wet Sunday afternoon. What I loved about it was the script's complete awareness of the absurdity of the situation - a US politician (Steve Carell) told by God (Morgan Freeman)to build an ark, well in land and with no rain in sight - I winced with embarrassment for him more than once as the story unfolded, and yet at the same time I chuckled into my cocoa.
I don't think this proports to be an amazing film, and the ending is fairly predictable right from the start, but it is a happy, feel-good film and worth watching. I heartily recommend it.
I don't think this proports to be an amazing film, and the ending is fairly predictable right from the start, but it is a happy, feel-good film and worth watching. I heartily recommend it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Made me laugh and it was clean family fun - not two things I often find together!
28 Dec 2010
By lightinglife
Format:DVD
I really enjoyed this film. I found it was funny (I preferred it to the original). It also was not at all crude and totally suitable for children. It had good morals about the environment, power, greed etc and had an underlying positive theme re God and the Bible. All in all I don't think I've seen a film that has all these ingredients together which makes it pretty special in my book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Enjoyed this film more than I'd expected (low expectations due to the negative reviews on its initial cinema release). Steve Carell is terrific!Main thing I wanted to add to what you can already read in other amazon reviews is to mention how interesting I found the DVD extras. It was fascinating to see how they filmed with so many highly trained animals, how they built a full-sized version of the ark, how they combined the use of CGI with the live action, particularly for the flood scenes at the end (and to prevent predators gulping down prey animals!) and - above all- how the film makers (including a director with a really strong drive and vision) attempted 'green' film status. This included planting 2,000 trees to balance their carbon footprint, donating the reuseable timber from the sets (especially the huge ark) to a home-building charity (along with the money generated by melting down and selling the steel frames used under the wood laminate for parts of the ark). It makes sense doesn't it? As someone mentioned in the mini-doc, making a set with a view to its future disassembly for reclamation and re-use is very different from making one designed just for demolition. The director even bought bicycles for members of the cast and crew who wanted one (I think he was surprised how many took up his offer - 400!) The bikes were used during the film shoot - to reduce car use for short journeys. Now I know some of this will seem suspect - part of the promotional budget you could say, but I'd never come across any such attempt in the film industry before.
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Funny
Bought as a gift and watched it with my family. It was very funny and the whole family enjoyed it.
Published 5 days ago by AshleighB
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Great video
I thought this was extremely funny, and exciting towards the end. Children thought it was great. Good for any age.
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Even Almighty
This DVD is brilliant i really enjoyed I have watched it a few times and haven't got bored if it.
Published 19 days ago by Barry Hathaway
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Nice movie
I enjoyed watching this movie on TV, thought my son should like it too he did... keeps watching the funny features.
Published 24 days ago by DD
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Follow up films are usually not as good but .......
This breaks the rule, every bit as good if not better with a good story line
Morgan Freeman is superb as always
Morgan Freeman is superb as always
Published 2 months ago by HB
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Evan Almighty - Laugh Almighty
It is truly a brilliant film. I laughed all the way through it. Its a tonic worth watching.
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Published 3 months ago by Michael George Skinner
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Brilliant
This film rates as one of the most hilarious Ive seen. With a unique story line and laughs from one end to the other its a definate family film for a sunday afternoon.
Published 3 months ago by PCDATALINCS
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Can recommend
A lovely film for all ages and great on a winter day. A very moral story for all of us
Published 3 months ago by Mary
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Evan Almighty
I recorded this film on my freeview box and loved it so much that I wanted to keep it on dvd. I looked it up on Amazon, and the price was so good that it wasn't even worth setting... Read more
Published 3 months ago by N J
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Hilarious film!
I must admit before watching this I didn't know if I wouldn't enjoy because although Bruce almighty was good it wasn't amazingly funny adni had hoped .. Read more
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