Illogical, but sometimes funny

Rating: 3/10 (16 January 2005)

I rarely get bothered by illogical events in movies, but this one has a few huge defects in that department. Where did the rest of the soup in the bowl go when Bruce did the split? And how come no one seemingly observed the moon being dragged towards earth? Such annoyances make "Bruce Almighty" just another average flick. As usual in an average Jim Carrey movie, it has a few very funny scenes. Like the rival anchor man contender being forced to talk nonsense and make funny faces (which is technically messing with free if you ask me, still funny though), the Jimmy Hoffa discovery and the Clint Eastwood imitation are all simply hilarious. These miniature Carrey-sketches saves the movie from being just totally ridiculous. None of the other actors make great appearances and the plot is more or less the blueprint of 10,000 other light Hollywood comedies. It gets sappy and uninspiring at the end too. Good enough for a lazy post party Sunday perhaps, but there are better Jim Carrey movies for that use.