Preachy formula with a few funny moments

Rating: 5/10 (29 May 2003)

Being a fan of Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston, and Morgan Freeman, I went to see this film with high hopes. After all, any movie with Freeman as God has to be pretty good, right? Perhaps not. While Freeman did once again fail to let me down, Carrey's performance was below average. However, when given a script that wasn't all that spectacular, one man can only do so much. Perhaps had I looked a little closer to see that Steve Oedekerk had been involved in the script, whose other cinematic failures include Kung Pow (also known as The Dumbest Movie in Existence), I wouldn't have been let down that much. Carrey was the best he could have been, but there's only so much he could do to save this. Steven Carrell had one of the best scenes in the movie, but even that was only able to entertain briefly before the gag just kept dragging on. Oh well, what can you expect from formula films?