Bruce Almighty Critic Reviews
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Based upon 15 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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Bruce Almighty would rather go runny and bland, mostly where Aniston's Grace is concerned.Read the full review
Aniston, as a sweet kindergarten teacher and fiancee, shows again (after "The Good Girl") that she really will have a movie career.Read the full review
Carrey isn't afraid to go happily psycho, like Peter Sellers or Eminem on his funniest tracks, and that's his edge. Read the full review
While Bruce Almighty does end on a modest "Candide"-like note, the getting there is too strained to be much of a pleasure. Read the full review
A woefully underwritten motion picture that starts out as a dumb comedy before taking an ill-advised detour into mawkish sentimentality. The last 30 minutes of Bruce Almighty is so godawful that it almost sent me screaming from the theater. Read the full review
Even apart from the fact that it's not nearly funny enough, Bruce Almighty is a peculiar film.Read the full review
I like my God, though, like I like my comedies: ruder, cruder, and able to show me things I haven't seen before. Bruce Almighty is sadly miracle-free. Read the full review
Although the film's jabs at TV journalism are nothing new, Carrey brings to the material the sense of someone who's too smart for his work yet loves it -- the essence, perhaps, of being a ham. Read the full review
Even more than Jerry Lewis, Robin Williams or Pee-wee Herman, Mr. Carrey, now 41 (pretty old for an overgrown kid), sustains a maniacal energy that explodes off the screen in blinding electrical zaps. Those jolts don't always feel pleasant. Read the full review
Even the most narcissistic jerk, like the one played by Jim Carrey in the loathsome comedy Bruce Almighty, would be expected to dream up untold pleasures for himself, acting as a self-serving genie with infinite wishes. Read the full review
