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63Evan Almighty may not be enough to make you shout ''Hallelujah,'' but it's not the cinematic equivalent of a plague, either.
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63Carell and Freeman are great together and Wanda Sykes' acerbic humor is perfect for her role as Evan's perplexed assistant.
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63Though far from a disaster of Biblical proportions, Evan Almighty is a mild, sporadically funny comedy in an oversized sentimental frame.
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60What makes the film transcend its limitations is Carell, whose square, "Father Knows Best" demeanor belies a supreme comic self-confidence and whose implacability in the face of the movie's CGI-intensive animal antics can be marvelous to behold.
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58The message is so good-hearted, so inarguable, so dull.
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50Carell 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.
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50Carell's frantic mugging as a modern-day Noah barely keeps Evan Almighty afloat.
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50Ultimately, Evan Almighty is too sappy, too sanctimonious.
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50Only 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.
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50Amusing in pieces but, taken as a whole, it offers little, and the morality lesson is galling.
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50The film wraps up in a neat, environmentally friendly package that might keep some kids entertained but will leave adults yawning.
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50Wanda Sykes and John Michael Higgins have energy as Evan's aides, and Jonah Hill (hot off "Knocked Up") gets laughs as a sycophantic researcher, but Graham has no chance to show what she can do.
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50You'd hope God would think bigger for His divine intervention in American politics.
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50Carell is lovable as God's unwilling disciple. But the comedy is less than divine.
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50A movie far less interesting than its premise. It is also slightly less interesting than its hugely popular predecessor, "Bruce Almighty."
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50I 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.
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50It's mildly diverting for kids and families in a way that would be perfectly fine as an ABC Family cable project.
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50In 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.
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50Freeman's God is a mix of Old and New Testament, with a dash of both sexism and sitcom; Carell's Noah is a political fool, but that only proves he's honest and sincere. This is idiotic, but it's so good-natured I didn't mind.
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50The film is a so-so slog through a torrent of tired jokes.
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40Evan Almighty runs out of comic invention early, and the filmmakers fall back on what real politicians do when they exhaust their small stash of ideas: brainless piety.
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38Carell's pal and "Daily Show" colleague Jon Stewart has a cameo as himself, one of a chorus of godless media star non-believers who do not see God's larger plan for Evan. Yes, well. At least "The Daily Show" is funny.
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38Though it's quite possibly an even worse film than "Bruce Almighty," the sequel offers at least one consolation: The smug and increasingly unfunny Jim Carrey is replaced by the very talented Steve Carell.
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38It's an almighty, humorless bore.
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30Bland jokes and lazy contrivances.
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30Carell is on the fast track to becoming Robin Williams, a guy who lost the plot far too early on and began pouring his considerable comic gifts into brain-dead heart-warmers.
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25It's Carell who projects the movie's only sense of mischief. But it's too little and too late.
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25A limp, slow-moving and desperately unfunny comedy.
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25It goes without saying that Evan Almighty, a kid-friendly follow-up to the Jim Carrey vehicle "Bruce Almighty," is more Ronald McDonald than Holy Bible, but it didn't have to be this epically trite.
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20An unnecessary sequel to the equally unnecessary "Bruce Almighty."
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It marks an unfortunate low point in the history of recent American comedy. There goes Steve Carell's perfect game.
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20This is movie-making by and for dummies, a sappy little bible story, blissed out on its own ineptitude.
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16A colossal dud.
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