Double Review: The Almighties!

Alright. Bruce Almighty with Jim Carrey. Sweetness.

Now, before I review this, I would like to say something: Do not, I repeat, DO NOT say this is a movie insulting God. I have heard several people say that, and ya know what? The most they've watched is the commercials. And that's prejudice. So, if I get any posts saying this movie was bad because of religious beliefs and you haven't even seen it, you can at the very least read this review. I can almost guarantee that that your opinion will change. Now, if it's just a movie that didn't interest you, fine. Cool. Whatever.

Okay. So, the movie is about a newscaster by the name of Bruce Nolan, (Jim Carrey) and basically all of the people at his work are jerks. He has low pay, gets the worst stories. In simplicity, he's a l-ay-hoo-sey-her. Iffin you get my reference. Now, he's angry cause he crashed, and thinks that God hates him and yells 'smite me, oh mighty smiter!' So, his pager gets a number that keeps happening. He gets annoyed, and throws it out, into traffic. When he goes out to his car, surprise surprise, it's still working after being ripped apart. So, since he lost his job for flipping off the camera on live TV, he called the number, which led to an address. He goes there, and steps in a deep puddle, soaking him to the knee. He gets annoyed. Goes inside. To find a Janitor, who tells him to go to Room 7 on the 7th floor. (7 days of creation, anyone?) Then the Janitor asks for help. Bruce, as a joke, says he'll do it on the 7th at 7. Bruce goes to the room, and sitting at the desk, is the Janitor, who introduces himself as God. (Morgan Freeman) Oh, and Bruce is having trouble with his girlfriend, Grace. (Jennifer Anistin) God reveals how he knows of Bruce's belief that God hates him, so God says 'You think you can do better, well here's your chance.'

Bruce goes out and over time, he finds out he has God's powers. So, like most people, he started with himself. He got his job back. A new car. He made himself anchor by humiliating the new Anchor, Evan Baxter. (Steve Carell) But, doing this causes him to lose the woman he loved. There was a catch to God's powers. He couldn't affect free will. He tried getting her back, even tried controlling her, but it never worked. But she prayed every night about Bruce. To him he became a pompous jerk.

In the end, he tried answering all prayers by carelessly answering 'yes' to all of them, and so about 50 people won the lottery and only got like...$17. So, they went on a rampage, and Bruce called out for God in his panic, and ended up back in the place, on the 7th at 7. The two had a chat, God took back his powers, and Bruce continued onward. So now, Bruce crashes his car again, and he falls in the middle of the road calling for God's help after hearing about his girl's broken heart. Suddenly a light glows, and Bruce gets happy, but is suddenly hit by a semi.

Now, he's in heaven with God, and they have a small chat. God asks him to pray, and Bruce simply asks that Grace becomes happy. So, God sent Bruce back to Earth, and he woke up in the hospital with Grace next to him. When he recovers, he and Grace get back together, and live happily ever after.

So, the moral of the story is: God gave Bruce his powers to teach him a lesson. Bruce didn't steal them, and it isn't making fun of God. If this didn't change your mind, go watch the movie. If you still think it is making fun of God, then you're just a stubborn person who really I have no time debating with. (Yes, I'm in a depressed/bad mood right now. Get over it. :D)

Evan Almighty. Some might say it's a sequel. But, it's more of a spin off. Evan Baxter is moving out of Buffalo, and into Washington DC! He's running for Congress! Yay!

I have to admit, I was a bit skeptical when I watched this, thinking 'how can God flood the world after he said he promised not to?' Well, read on. It gets better. No joke.

So, he gets a strange delivery from 'Alpha and Omega' which is a company. Sound familiar? Soon, he's visited by God, who asks him to build an Ark. He refuses, and leaves thinking this dude is craaaaaaazy. Soon, animals start following him. He grows a beard, and God gives him an outfit that if he doesn't wear, all of his clothes disappear when he leaves the house. As in all of them. Every scrap. I think God just did that as a Joke...why shouldn't God have a sense of humour anyway? He created humour after all. Anyway, so he finally gives in and starts building it, but eventually everyone ridicules him. EVERYONE. Even his wife (played by the chick who plays Lorelei on Gilmore Girls...don't ask how I know that.) and kids ditch him. While she's in a restaurant watching the news about her husband building an ark, she is talked to by a waiter, who just happens to be God, and tells her that family is everything. So, she decides to go and help. So, they all build an ark together, though the entire world is against them. Kinda sad, huh? Anyway, so they get it finished and the animals line in 2 by 2. So, there's a crowd, threatening to destroy it. And suddenly...

THE RAINS COME!

and then end about 10 seconds later. So, yeah. It was pretty much for nothing...until a dam breaks and causes several streets in Washington D.C to flood. So, the jerk-people all get in, and have a fun little Ark-ride down Main Street, ending at the Capital Building where the antagonist of the show, a senator, is accused of as a jerk and is ridiculed and fired. Yay!

All in all, it turns out to be a great movie as well. Great moral, and it brings a kind of...new understanding of the story of Noah. What he probably went through, and such. It was very well done.

So, that's my review. Yay.