It's been done before...better

Rating: Null/10 (1 July 2003)

I suppose this was ok, but really no great shakes. I see there are over 250 comments on the movie on IMDB, and I have only read about 40, but surely I cannot be alone in stating the obvious; Bruce Almighty is a reworking/remake - call it what you will - of Groundhog Day.
Vain, shallow minor media celebrity, thinks he deserves a lot better than he's got and goes through a bizarre supernatural experience to find redemption and make himself a better person.
But Groundhog Day did it with imagination, wit and emotion (the benefits of a great idea, a clever script and superb actors).
Bruce Almighty is just a tired re-tread showing little imagination and going for obvious belly laughs. Even the incomparable Morgan Freeman can't really do much with this material.
Jim Carrey has his moments I suppose, but he is a one trick pony.
I really am an incurable optimist. Time after time I go to movies like this hoping for the best, and always coming out disappointed. Oh well!