Is this for kids?

Rating: 4/10 (21 January 2004)

This comedy (?) had maybe 3 good laughs in it. I'll explain why it is terribly flawed, even though it made several hundred million dollars:
-I am not a Jim Carrey hater, but he was totally miscast for this role. You needed more of a straight man to pull off the transformation to having the powers of God. Instead, Carrey seems only mildly different from before.
-The movie was for some reason set in Buffalo, but it looks to have been mostly filmed on a back lot in southern California. This was very disconcerting to me - Buffalo is a very gritty, post-industrial landscape, and blue screening a few shots of the skyline or the falls doesnt make it. And that street set looked like something out of "Singin' in the Rain".
-It had no edge, despite the whole work conflict and breakup with Anniston's character. An edge would provide better contrasts and better comedy - instead, it comes across like a rated G film with a few sexy jokes.
Only good thing was Morgan Freeman.