Evan Almighty Critic Reviews

The message is so good-hearted, so inarguable, so dull.Read the full review

A movie far less interesting than its premise. It is also slightly less interesting than its hugely popular predecessor, "Bruce Almighty."Read the full review

It's mildly diverting for kids and families in a way that would be perfectly fine as an ABC Family cable project.Read the full review

I really hope Evan Almighty doesn't become a surprise hit with a niche audience (Christian, environmentalist 8-year-olds?). Too much worldly success might tempt Steve Carell away from the righteous path of making movies as dark, weird, and funny as he is himself.Read the full review

Only in the last 30 minutes does Evan Almighty put his gifts to decent use. Epically hairy and biblically robed, Carell suggests at that point what a bolder, more psychologically serious treatment of religious conviction would have been like.Read the full review

Carell is lovable as God's unwilling disciple. But the comedy is less than divine.Read the full review

Carell is getting quite good as these everyman characters but lacks the audacity of, say, a Carrey or a Robin Williams. He is making comedy out of dullness.Read the full review

In Evan Almighty, Mr. God goes to Washington. Frank Capra, stop rolling in your grave. At least they cared enough to steal from the very best.Read the full review

Amusing in pieces but, taken as a whole, it offers little, and the morality lesson is galling.Read the full review