A rather entertaining movie

Rating: 6/10 (2 February 2004)

Why does it seem so difficult in this day and age to make a movie which aims at amusing an audience by means of good innocent fun? Fun has tended to become obsolete in present day motion pictures and any attempt at restoring light-hearted amusement should be encouraged. Bruce Almighty gives us a great feeling from the very beginning on: it's opening scenes are very promising and we get the impression that this is going to be a worthy sequel to movies such as "Mask": fast and hilarious.All this is relatively true:some great gags and visual virtuosity right up to the moment God points out to Bruce that he's basically an irresponsible and unworthy human being.After this moral reprimand, Bruce is never the same any more and neither is the movie. It slumps, becomes sluggish and loses its appeal. A real pity as both Jim and Morgan were seemingly enjoying themselves immensely up until the moment the script really let them down. All in all a rather entertaining movie