Smiling All The Way Through

Rating: Null/10 (28 January 2004)

I am like a lot of people who are not real Jim Carrey fans. Fortunately this film did not drop to the level of being just another vehicle for him to make faces in. For a bit I thought it might do that when he first got the power but it got on to tell a pretty cute story.
No, it was the funniest movie I have ever seen but yet it kept me smiling all the way through without dropping down to the toilet bowl humor that is so often protrayed in films and music today. Where are we going to go after everybody gets used to the proper words for genitalia being used as the punchline?
I have heard some complaints about it being to much like some of the other classics from yesteryear. However, there is nothing completely new anymore unless you refer to genitalia, as referenced to above. It's a Wonderful Life follows this film a bit, but it is much different in the actual scene structure. A film that leaves you going home with a smile on your face needs to have a happy ending, and Bruce does that; and to do that, you need a certain amount of drama before the happiness results. There are only so many ways you can do that, so a certain amount of simularity is certain to be there.
I thought Morgan Freeman was just about perfect, as were most of the others in the cast. My wife and I both enjoyed it and would not be afraid to show it to most anyone. If your faith is so weak that you must protest any reference to God, then you are to weak to pass any test.