Bruce Almighty
God actually contacts Bruce; a guy who blames him for his misfortunes and offers him all of his powers if he thinks he can do a better job.
12 March 1953, Long Island, New York, USA
16 September 1998, Newport Beach, California, USA
8 December 1952, Troy, Michigan, USA
10 January 1980, Grand Rapids, Minnesota, USA
13 October 1979, Ventura County, California, USA
July1974, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
4 April 1968, Mt. Vernon, New York, USA
1 June 1937, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
1970, Santa Monica, California, USA
5 February 1984, Santa Monica, California, USA
3 August 1963, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
14 October 1961, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
2 May 1931, San Francisco, California, USA
19 August 1960, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
13 May 1922, Chicago, Illinois, USA
5 December 1931, New York, New York, USA
January 09, 2010
For all its swings for the fences, the movie never rises above being lightly amusing.June 24, 2006
Director Shadyac and his three scriptwriters prove much more fallibly flawed than their omnipotent hero.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.April 29, 2009
It fails to really use Carrey's comedic ability and it ultimately wastes the potential it reaps.December 22, 2010
Happily deranged comedy has typical Carrey humor.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.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.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.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.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.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.May 29, 2003
It drowns [Carrey's] hilarious physicality in an ocean of sap.