Did people seriously think this was going to be a discussion on the nature of God?

Rating: 4/10 (19 August 2003)

PROBABLY SPOILERS ABOUND:
No sense in beating around the bush: this is not a comedy. It's a thinly disguised sentimental snoozer with Jim Carrey in it. "Oh, that Jim Carrey! He's so wacky!" Unfortunately, his act begins to seriously grate in 'Bruce Almighty' and when the inclusion of him spouting various clumps of nonsense is the only thing REMOTELY funny in this film you know it's in trouble. The music is far too syrupy and floats around in the background in a kind of "Isn't everything so great?" way.
The plot, as I gathered it before my brain went walkies, is that Bruce fails at everything in life and decides to blame God. So God (in the form of a criminally under-used Morgan Freeman - I had a theory that any film featuring Morgan Freeman would be, at the VERY LEAST, watchable, but 'Bruce Almighty' has just blown that out of the water) comes down and gives Bruce super powers in order to show him how hard being a deity is. This opens up a huge can of worms and plotholes.
Like I said earlier, this is not a comedy. There is nothing worth new or interesting in this film, except for Jim Carrey cemented his place as The Most Irritating Man Ever.