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Bruce Almighty (2003)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:20
Rotten:15
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: Carrey is hilarious in the slapstick scenes, but Bruce Almighty gets bogged down in treacle.
Theatrical Release:May 23, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $242,589,580
Synopsis: Jim Carrey returns to his zany, manic roots in this Capraesque comedy from director Tom Shadyac (ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE and LIAR LIAR). Carrey stars as Bruce Nolan, a television reporter in... [More]
Starring: Jim Carrey, Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Aniston, Philip Baker Hall
Director: Tom Shadyac
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Reviews for Bruce Almighty
Top CriticMr. Carrey gets some of his biggest laughs in years by playing up the darker side of his character's small-mindedness.
06/13/03
Top CriticBruce 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.
05/27/03
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.
05/27/03
Top Critic[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.
05/26/03
Top CriticThe laughs in Bruce Almighty are thinly spread across a vast, bland cake of uplifting sentiment.
05/24/03
Top Critic[Carrey] is so gifted a physical comedian that even mediocre material shines in his talented hands.
05/23/03
Top CriticSomething between an indiscretion and an atrocity, in the key of that most human yet loathsome of self-indulgences, vanity.
05/23/03
Top CriticEveryone is well cast and no one more perfectly than Freeman, who is far more God-like than George Burns ever was.
05/23/03
Top CriticCarrey seems engaged in a kind of war with his own best comic instincts.
05/23/03
Top CriticCarrey's shtick is beginning to seem tired.
05/23/03
Top CriticAt the end of the day, Carrey is far more palatable and sincere under a devil's mask than a cardboard halo.
05/23/03
Top CriticAlthough the movie never quite explores all the heavenly possibilities, it does provide some wicked chuckles.
05/23/03
Top CriticRambunctiously funny.
05/23/03
Top CriticWhen Carrey is doing his thing as the Almighty, histrionically whipping up one miracle after another and relishing the power, Bruce has you spring-cleaning your lungs with laughter.
05/23/03
Top CriticIt's Carrey who must carry this film, and he lifts Bruce Almighty to the heavens.
05/23/03
Top CriticYep, this is the Carrey America loves -- off-the-wall, over-the-top, elastic, spastic and fantastic.
05/23/03
Top CriticVery snappy, sweetly moral.
05/23/03
Top CriticA charmer, the kind of movie where Bruce learns that while he may not ever make a very good God, the experience may indeed make him a better television newsman.
05/23/03
Top CriticBasically, Bruce Almighty is about getting Carrey to stop acting up. But without his misbehaving, there's no movie.
05/23/03
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