Cute enough, but pretty simpleminded

Rating: 4/10 (20 October 2006)

If you're looking for the edgy zany Jim Carey (like Cable Guy) you won't find it here. If you're looking for Jim Carey the good actor (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lemony Snicket's), you won't find that either.
What you get here is a cookie cutter Hollywood comedy which is cute, obvious, and doesn't make you think too much.. or at all.
The plot is simple.. ordinary nice guy becomes unhappy with his life, complains about the lousy way that god is running the universe... ZING, in pops Morgan Freeman to teach him a thing or two about what being god is all about... Which he does.. but there are no particularly deep ideas here, just pure sitcom entertainment. The major characters are all fairly well acted and there are some cute scenes eg where "Bruce" tries different ways to deal with gods huge backlog of prayers to be answered.
In short, I would watch this movie again if I was really bored or home sick from work and it happened to be on TV. It's cute, as far as it goes.. which isn't too far. If you like that kind of movie then I guess its a good date flick...