Evan Almighty, the spinoff of Bruce Almighty is a lesser forced cashgrab that falls apart as soon as you try and even remotely think about it. The movie is only saved by the comedic talents of Steve Carell, thanks to whom the movie does have some fun gags. Most of them you'll see in the trailer though so I'll leave it up to you If you'd find this movie a waste or time or not. For me, I don't mind the movie as background noise when it is already on TV, but it would never occur to me to watch it from my own will. I don't mind watching it, but there are some major problems.
The first one is right there in the title. They wanted to let the audience know that this was related to the better received Bruce Almighty, but the problem is that Evan isn't indeed "Almighty". Evan is LARPing Moses from the bible, but is not allpowerful god as Bruce was.
The Moses Larping is also problematic. It is very clear that they wanted to make a movie where the character of Evan builds an Arch and some animal related gags. Those are OK, but the problem is that they failed to come up with a compelling reason for all this. When said Arch should have saved the inhabitants of the urban area that is flooded, then what was the point of bringing Elephants and Lamas from god knows where on board? They could have had a valid reason by showing us a Zoo in the neighborhood, but they couldn't be bothered. And the endgame of the story isn't some personal growth, a moral lesson but something about real estate law. Let's not pretend that Bruce Almighty is some sort of masterpiece, but compared to this movie it is. It's title and plot while simple, at least makes a remote kind of sense. Here the plot is bult around the idea of having a dude turn into Moses and build an arch? Why? Who cares...
This lack of effort makes the movie feels forced and ultimately forgettable. Viewing the Box Office results, the movie didn't even break even, which is not surprising at all.
The first one is right there in the title. They wanted to let the audience know that this was related to the better received Bruce Almighty, but the problem is that Evan isn't indeed "Almighty". Evan is LARPing Moses from the bible, but is not allpowerful god as Bruce was.
The Moses Larping is also problematic. It is very clear that they wanted to make a movie where the character of Evan builds an Arch and some animal related gags. Those are OK, but the problem is that they failed to come up with a compelling reason for all this. When said Arch should have saved the inhabitants of the urban area that is flooded, then what was the point of bringing Elephants and Lamas from god knows where on board? They could have had a valid reason by showing us a Zoo in the neighborhood, but they couldn't be bothered. And the endgame of the story isn't some personal growth, a moral lesson but something about real estate law. Let's not pretend that Bruce Almighty is some sort of masterpiece, but compared to this movie it is. It's title and plot while simple, at least makes a remote kind of sense. Here the plot is bult around the idea of having a dude turn into Moses and build an arch? Why? Who cares...
This lack of effort makes the movie feels forced and ultimately forgettable. Viewing the Box Office results, the movie didn't even break even, which is not surprising at all.
