A predictable, but funny comedy

Rating: Null/10 (2 February 2006)

Bruce Almighty is an about-average comedy with some stupid-silly humor, but it manages to be light-hearted and funny throughout.
Bruce is played by Jim Carrey. In this movie, Bruce is an average guy with way too many problems. His girlfriend is close to breaking up with him. His News Team fires him. His dog isn't potty trained. He has nothing better to do than blame it all on God.
So, he gets a message on his pager to visit some sort of building. He throws his pager out the window (I think the guy wouldn't stop paging him. I forgot.) and it gets run over by a car. Then, Bruce goes outside to find that his pager was still working. So, he is convinced to go to the building. There he meets a janitor played by Morgan Freeman. The janitor tells him to go to the seventh floor. When Bruce reaches that floor, he finds the electrician, also played by Morgan Freeman. Morgan tells him that he is God. (Why have you gone to comedies Mr. Freeman?) Bruce doesn't believe that Morgan Freeman/the electrician/the janitor can be God. Yet, God convinces him, and says that it isn't too easy being God. To prove this, God gives Bruce all of his powers for a week with a couple of obvious rules.
I'm too lazy to explain it, but I can tell you that two problems arise: The first is that his girlfriend leaves him, and Bruce can hardly do anything about it. The second is that Bruce unknowingly answers a bunch of dangerous prayers that turn the town crazy.
What the movie is really good for is comedy. (It's starring Jim Carrey. What did you expect?) It's a bit stupid at times, but never too stupid, and emerges looking more silly. There is about one decent joke every once in a while, which may cause a chuckle, but probably not much more.
Some of the jokes are just nonsense, but quite decent. I forgot most of them, but they could be good for a laugh. The monkey part was probably the funniest part of the whole movie.
The main flaw in Bruce Almighty is that there seems to be a delay between jokes- a passage of time. The story is predictable, but takes up too much time developing to actually get to something funny.
This will appeal to the audiences who love to laugh.
Good: Well, it is funny at times and never TOO stupid
Bad: Predictable, not enough jokes to get a high score
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