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Bruce Almighty

Bruce Almighty (2003)

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Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 183
Fresh: 89 | Rotten: 94

Carrey is hilarious in the slapstick scenes, but Bruce Almighty gets bogged down in treacle.

57

Average Rating: 6.1/10
Critic Reviews: 37
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 16

Carrey is hilarious in the slapstick scenes, but Bruce Almighty gets bogged down in treacle.

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After a bad day at work, a man suddenly gets a new job -- as the world's new Heavenly Father -- in this comedy. Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey) is a television reporter working in Buffalo, NY, who has been growing increasingly dissatisfied with his existence, and after an especially bad day, he flies into a rage and curses God for making his life miserable. To Bruce's great surprise, the Supreme Being Himself (Morgan Freeman) appears, and tries to convince Bruce of the enormity of his task. Bruce,

PG-13, 1 hr. 42 min.

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy

Michael O'Keefe, Steve Koren, Steve Oedekerk

Nov 25, 2003

$242.6M

Universal Pictures

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Critic Reviews for Bruce Almighty

All Critics (186) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (92) | Rotten (95) | DVD (23)

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 Source: Variety | Comment
Robert Koehler
Variety
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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 Source: New York Observer | Comment
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
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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 Source: Village Voice | Comment
Ed Park
Village Voice
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... 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 Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comment
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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Highly watchable.

May 26, 2003 Full Review Source: Slate | Comment
David Edelstein
Slate
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[Carrey] is in loose-limbed form, with healthy doses of fury, in a film that mostly succeeds at fusing his slapstick talents and more heartfelt inclinations.

May 26, 2003 Comment
Sheri Linden
Hollywood Reporter
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Happily deranged comedy has normal Carrey humor.

December 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
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 Source: 7M Pictures | Comment
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

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

January 9, 2010 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
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 Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment
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 Source: Sacramento News & Review | Comment
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 Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

Move over Meg Ryan: When Harry Met Sally's climactic luncheonette scene will never be the same after Aniston's eye-popping rendezvous with her maker.

August 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Long Island Press | Comment
Prairie Miller
Long Island Press

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

July 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | Comment
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 Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
David Cornelius
eFilmCritic.com

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

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment
Time Out Source: Time Out

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

June 20, 2005 Full Review Source: FromTheBalcony | Comment
Bill Clark
FromTheBalcony Source: FromTheBalcony

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

March 5, 2005 Full Review Source: NYC Film Critic | 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 Source: tonymedley.com | Comment
Tony Medley
tonymedley.com Source: tonymedley.com

It is laugh out loud funny and yet, heartfelt.

August 13, 2004 Full Review Source: Oregon Herald | Comment
Mark Sells
Oregon Herald Source: 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 Source: F5 (Wichita, KS) | Comments (4)
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS) Source: F5 (Wichita, KS)
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Remember when Jim Carry was funny... the only thing I took from this is God probably does look like Freeman.

January 27, 2012
Joshua Wilburn
Joshua Wilburn

Super Reviewer

As goes the director, Tom Shadyac, I usually don't care for him. Both ACE VENTURA films were dumb enough to make Sandler look like Einstein, and LIAR LIAR was one disturbingly hyperactive performance. It seems the only two Shadyac films I remotely enjoyed were EVAN ALMIGHTY (which I saw first) and THE NUTTY PROFESSOR.

June 14, 2011
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Alexander Diminiano

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Bruce Almighty Quotes

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    1. Bruce Nolan: Okay. How many hands are behind my back?
    2. God: Seven.
    3. Bruce Nolan: Ah HA! AHH!
    – Submitted by Domenica D (41 days ago)
    1. Bruce Nolan: I'm Bruce Nolan for Eyewitness News. Back to you, FUCKERS!
    – Submitted by Dave M (57 days ago)
    1. Bruce Nolan: And that's the way the cookie crumbles.
    – Submitted by Dimitrakis Z (58 days ago)
    1. Grace: I woke up this morning and I swear my boobs felt bigger. Do they look bigger to you?
    – Submitted by Jacob D (3 months ago)

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