If God is a cow,being a vegetarian might be a useful option......

Rating: 4/10 (4 January 2008)

Find the concept of God as an old white man with a beard just a tad patronising?Or maybe racist?How about.....wait for it......making him an old black man with a beard?You can give him a white suit to appease the Klanners of course,but,basically,is that radical or what? Mr M.Freeman isn't quite as cool as Mr S.L.Jackson but he's cool enough to steal this movie from under the nose of Mr J.Carrey quite effortlessly.Miss J.Aniston - game as a young Debbie Reynolds - plays Lois Lane to Carrey's Superman(for what is God but Superman after all?)and is - in my opinion - a far better actress than she is given credit for.She radiates intensity and determination and it is not her fault that she is required to replicate Miss M.Ryan in a totally unnecessary and faintly embarrassing sequence where our Jim tests out his supreme power in a predictable manner. "Bruce Almighty" does not travel well.Mr Carrey is an acquired taste. When he demands of Miss Aniston "Love me,love me,love me" he is echoing the command many American comedians issue peremptorily to their audience ,one which does not settle too well with the more delicate stomach of the average Brit. There is a breakthrough role in the history of canine cinema for Mr Carrey's dog whose thespic skills are tested to the limit when he is required to sit on the can whilst reading a newspaper,now there's a first for you.You may find this the highlight of the whole movie. What,one wonders,would God make of it?Well,presuming he/she is human and not,as Gary Larson suspected,a cow,then I hope that for Mr Carrey's sake the saying "To err is human - to forgive divine" has at least an element of truth in it.If however God is a cow,being a vegetarian might be a useful option.