Stop to Smell the Plastic Roses

Rating: Null/10 (10 October 2007)

Another one-gag wonder by Tom Shadyac, Bruce Almighty is the equivalent of a McDonald's hamburger--predictable, dependable, and gone if a matter of seconds. The story of a shallow TV news reporter who is given the chance to have godlike powers, thereby giving him some depth, some appreciation of the world around him, is not a real mind-bender for originality, but it does have a slew of frenetic Jim Carrey moments, an always-lovely Jennifer Anniston, and the presence of a whimsical Morgan Freeman as the God who reminds Carrey of what is important.
It's all fluff and stuff. You can't get mad at Bruce Almighty because it has enough of what you came to see to keep you from getting bored and thumbing through a King James Version.