Two thumbs DOWN!

Rating: Null/10 (14 September 2003)

I am shocked and must ask 4 questions about this movie: 1) How the heck did the get an $81 million budget? 2) How did the average user rating for Bruce Almighty on the IMDB make it up to 6.4? 3) Has Jim Carrey lost it? 4) Why the heck did I pay back my friend the 6 bucks my friend lent me to see it?
I have seen a lot of really good movies, and I've seen a lot of really bad ones. When looking at my experience with the movies and after seeing the first 20 minutes of Bruce Almighty I have to say that this is one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
Now it's one thing to have a bad/cliche storyline in a movie, but at least the majority of them are enjoyable. Crossroads was an awful movie, but at least I could sit there and make fun of the characters to myself (and plus, Britney Spears alone in the movie made it worth my wasted time). Bruce Almighty was just obnoxious and embarrassing! There were so many times when Jim Carrey (one of my favorite comedic actors) would try out his goofiness and fail miserably. There is nothing more humiliating than a comedy that isn't funny.
To make it even worse the movie pretty much offended me. A normal movie in this type of cliche where the main character obtains a special power and has himself some fun with it and realizes it's more work than he/she thought in the end--teaching them a valuable lesson in life--would at least make me think to myself "I wonder what I would do if I had those powers." I could not say that throughout the movie I was daydreaming about becoming God because that is just evil, and so is the way it is portrayed in this movie. Jim Carrey becoming God? Walking on water? Parting his soup? I am definitely not a religious freak but I still say BLASPHEMY! Now I wouldn't think this film was blasphemous if it actually had a point, purpose, or if it was even entertaining, but all this movie did was just play. The writers were probably sitting around one day trying to think of a way to write a cliche screenplay with a new premise, and decided it would be fun to PLAY God for once. I wouldn't care if I saw a movie that encouraged the worship of Satan as long as it had a point and/or a message. So I am offended not because a normal guy challenges my beliefs of God's ultimate power by becoming him, I am offended that the filmmakers toyed around with this subject (very poorly, I have to remind you, and without any hint of entertaining material) just to please Hollywood studios, say they worked with Jim Carrey, and to make a chunk of change while they're at it.
In the end I give this movie zero stars for not only having a crappy storyline, but by the lack of comedic/entertainment value, and by taking the subject of "God" and exploiting it disrespectfully, illogically, and completely half-@ssed.