Bruce Almighty (2003)

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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.

July 29, 2008 Full Review

Robert Koehler

Variety

Top Critic

Director Shadyac and his three scriptwriters prove much more fallibly flawed than their omnipotent hero.

June 24, 2006 Full Review

Time Out

Top Critic

Mr. Carrey gets some of his biggest laughs in years by playing up the darker side of his character's small-mindedness.

June 13, 2003 Full Review

Andrew Sarris

New York Observer

Top Critic

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.

May 27, 2003 Full Review

Ed Park

Village Voice

Top Critic

... 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.

May 27, 2003 Full Review

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

Highly watchable.

May 26, 2003 Full Review

David Edelstein

Slate

Top Critic

Happily deranged comedy has typical Carrey humor.

December 22, 2010 Full Review

Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

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.

September 21, 2010 Full Review

Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

For all its swings for the fences, the movie never rises above being lightly amusing.

January 9, 2010 Full Review

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

It fails to really use Carrey's comedic ability and it ultimately wastes the potential it reaps.

April 29, 2009 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

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.

August 7, 2008 Full Review

Jim Lane

Sacramento News & Review

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.

August 11, 2007 Full Review

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

The premise sounds good, but this time around the result is forced and undercooked.

July 14, 2007 Full Review

Joe Lozito

Big Picture Big Sound

If only the writers had thought to open up the concept beyond dog-on-toilet gags.

June 9, 2007 Full Review

David Cornelius

eFilmCritic.com

Bruce Almighty is the kind of movie that Jim Carrey should stick to.

June 20, 2005 Full Review

Bill Clark

FromTheBalcony

Up until the last act, Bruce is a decent, if not stellar Jim Carrey comedy.

March 5, 2005 Full Review | Comment (1)

Ethan Alter

NYC Film Critic

[Aniston] contributes another professional outing in what's little more than a supporting role, indicating she's a serious actress and not just one of those jerks on Friends.

October 7, 2004 Full Review

Tony Medley

tonymedley.com

It is laugh out loud funny and yet, heartfelt.

August 13, 2004 Full Review

Mark Sells

Oregon Herald

The dearth of imagination is stupefying. Carrey is alternately embarrassing and terrifyingly detached, [and] Freeman has sold out.

July 6, 2004 Full Review | Comments (4)

Jake Euker

F5 (Wichita, KS)

Never before have I heard the F word used in a film about God, though I'm sure there were times in Passion of the Christ when Jesus was thinking it...

May 26, 2004 Full Review

Oz

eFilmCritic.com

[Carrey's] latest is a comedy-thank heaven-that might even cause the guy upstairs to fall down laughing.

February 24, 2004 Full Review | Comment (1)

Thomas Delapa

Boulder Weekly

'You can see Carrey straining to reign in his more extreme comedic tendencies - and losing the battle.'

January 31, 2004 Full Review

Lori Hoffman

Atlantic City Weekly

Consistently amusing, despite being formulaic and occasionally sappy.

January 15, 2004

Andrew Manning

Radio Free Entertainment

Freeman is one of the delights of the film, as an avuncular Deity with a sense of humor.

January 4, 2004 Full Review

Daniel M. Kimmel

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

• 1. Bruce Nolan: Anyway, I'm here with Katharine Hepburn's mum. Now tell me, why did you throw the "Heart Of The Ocean" jewel over the railing of the Titanic? Did you feel bad at all letting Leo DiCaprio drown while you were safe floating on the big door? Would you have taken turns or were you just to afraid to freeze your big fat ASS OFF?
  – Submitted by Matthew D (21 days ago)
• 1. Bruce Nolan: My blood type is IB positive. IB positive that they ain't touchin' me with no needle!
  – Submitted by Samantha A (4 months ago)
• 1. Bruce Nolan: Smite me, O mighty smighter!
  – Submitted by Samantha A (5 months ago)
• 1. Grace: Hey, I just woke up this morning and I felt like my boobs were bigger. Do they look bigger to you?
  2. Bruce Nolan: No. Bigger? Um....
  3. Grace: Oh come one! [jiggles boobs] Look at them! They are definitely bigger! They feel so huge to me.
  4. Bruce Nolan: Listen I have to go but this has been the breast break, I mean the breast break, thank you.
  5. Grace: Where are you going?
  6. Bruce Nolan: To get my job back!
  – Submitted by Domenica D (5 months ago)
• 1. Evan Baxter: The prime minister of Sweden visited Washington today and my tiny, little nipples went to France.
  – Submitted by Jonathan M (6 months ago)
• 1. Grace: You know, I have a very rare blood type. AB Positive.
  2. Bruce Nolan: Sounds delicious... [bares teeth]
  – Submitted by Augusta M (7 months ago)

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