oh mr. carell. how far you have fallen. after a glowing moment in little miss sunshine and steve carell choice of films is beginning to contrast starkly with what has come since. although the 40 year old virgin was entertaining and it was dwarfed by his sunshine character. hoping to find something that would get me to spew popcorn from my nose and i decided to rent evan almighty and see what possible guffaws might await me here. not much. given the trite and clichéd script and the entire film felt forced and unemotional. poking a bit of fun at flagging family values and the current u. s. administration take on the environment and evan almighty also tries to put a profound biblical moment into humorous terms but fails miserably. nearly every person on earth knows the story of noah and the ark. god wrath was sent down with 30 days and nights of rain which flooded the entire planet while noah and his family and and two of each of his creatures on earth rode out the wetness in relative comfort via the gopher wood ark. it was a huge moment in human history (if you believe the biblical text). so why would god appear to one man and ask him to build an ark that would only carry the world animals for a few minutes after a dam break. the simple answer is that he never would. too much emphasis was given to u. s. government policy and not enough on world events and making evan almighty a terribly myopic and ameri centric film. although designed as a comedy and it really never reaches anything approaching belly laughs. maybe a few grunts and a smile and but little else. john goodman (cars) pulls in another forced performance as the despicable congressman chuck long who only goals are to create development opportunities on protected national land holdings. even the strong presence of morgan freeman (10 items of less) as god can not help mop up this soaking wet disaster of a film. the only funny moments are between carell and the animals and especially as evan learns what animal magnetism is really like. birds literally flock to him. sheep herd around him. lions take pride in being near him (please forgive the puns). the special effects were fun to watch but were brief (with good reason). the flood was interesting in that the ark was obviously guided by his hand and shoved in just the right direction. but other than that youre in for little more than an insult to common sense and intellect. 
oh mr. carell. how far you have fallen. after a glowing moment in little miss sunshine and steve carell choice of films is beginning to contrast starkly with what has come since. although the 40 year old virgin was entertaining and it was dwarfed by his sunshine character. hoping to find something that would get me to spew popcorn from my nose and i decided to rent evan almighty and see what possible guffaws might await me here. not much. given the trite and clichéd script and the entire film felt forced and unemotional. poking a bit of fun at flagging family values and the current u. s. administration take on the environment and evan almighty also tries to put a profound biblical moment into humorous terms but fails miserably. nearly every person on earth knows the story of noah and the ark. god wrath was sent down with 30 days and nights of rain which flooded the entire planet while noah and his family and and two of each of his creatures on earth rode out the wetness in relative comfort via the gopher wood ark. it was a huge moment in human history (if you believe the biblical text). so why would god appear to one man and ask him to build an ark that would only carry the world animals for a few minutes after a dam break. the simple answer is that he never would. too much emphasis was given to u. s. government policy and not enough on world events and making evan almighty a terribly myopic and ameri centric film. although designed as a comedy and it really never reaches anything approaching belly laughs. maybe a few grunts and a smile and but little else. john goodman (cars) pulls in another forced performance as the despicable congressman chuck long who only goals are to create development opportunities on protected national land holdings. even the strong presence of morgan freeman (10 items of less) as god can not help mop up this soaking wet disaster of a film. the only funny moments are between carell and the animals and especially as evan learns what animal magnetism is really like. birds literally flock to him. sheep herd around him. lions take pride in being near him (please forgive the puns). the special effects were fun to watch but were brief (with good reason). the flood was interesting in that the ark was obviously guided by his hand and shoved in just the right direction. but other than that youre in for little more than an insult to common sense and intellect. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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