Bruce Almighty | | Cast : | Jim Carrey, Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Aniston | | Director : | Tom Shadyac | | Studio : | Universal Studios Ho | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | May 23, 2003 | | DVD Released Date : | November 25, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | August 08, 2005 | | Summary | i'll say that this movie sucks "the day a monkey comes out of my butt" | Content
 | when Bruce Nolan has the worst day of his life, he complains to god claiming that god is the one that is not doing his job. so the next day Bruce gets a call from a mestyrious place, where Bruce meats God and God gives Bruce all of his powers to see if Bruce can do the job better. from then on Bruce has fun with his new powers but with some consequences, from bugging prayers to a dog that pees in the toilet. but as Bruces life starts to tip to the worse, he starts to regret what he has done with his powers.
thismovie will have you laughin on the floor from the begining, andwill give you a sense of satisfacation when your done with watching the special features, thinking that it was worth the money. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 05, 2005 | | Summary | Amorality Runs Wild In Hollywood, The Moral Sinkhole!!!!!!!! | Content
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Note the absolutely calculated sarcasm in this opening line: What a biiiiiig surprise that Hollywood, the entertainment industry, filled to the brim with "people" who're ALWAYS crowing about their constitutional rights to free expression and censorship, are, AS USUAL, then deliberately doing wrong and not adhering to the same so-called standard of "principles", when it comes to other areas, namely religion and Hollywood's relentlessly long-standing desecration of the truth that God, as a deity, exists. Sordidly, even though it's enormously obvious, this double-standard hypocrisy out of the left-wing entertainment "community" comes as NO SURPRISE AT ALL, when you, in an ignominious retrospect, look back at the wickedly pro-communistic and anti-war stance from these dangerous leftist-lovers, disclosed never as infernally as the past couple of months, when they had a whole myriad of things to take advantage of, namely the Iraqi war and the signature-signing backing of Fidel Castro! In other words, when it comes to big show matters that grab a severity of publicity, Hollywood, the maker of this religiously offensive fare disguised as a comedic movie, ruthlessly pretends to be at the forefront of morals when it suits them, yet in more basic issues of morality, mercilessly and willfully misjudges, such as this movie of blasphemous enormities.
Particularly distressing is the tactically menacing plan by the sinister distributing studio to hide these severely heavy dilemmas inside of a comedy, where "people" are unfortunately more likely to forgive it or not notice all together, and worse even, to boot, featuring a purportedly "popular", slapstick actor, who'll just continue to aid and abet, and conceal the ethical violation of writing a movie where God is taken in vain through the whole sacrilegious train wreck by being lowered to human's standards. Quite clearly in fact, the Decalogue---or Ten Commandments---for those heathens who might read this and thus be totally lost, spells out about 2 different, straightforward contraventions that this adverse movie from Universal and by non-believing atheist Tom "heretic" Shadyac perpetrates. Specifically line 2, where the Catholic Bible says to not take the Lord's name in vain, or abuse it. This intentionally irreligious production--with single-minded determination on only making a profit--definitely qualifies for the deadliest breach possible that a person could commit, by representing the Morgan Freeman character first as God, and then by dictating that a human (Carrey) could ever be anywhere as great as God, by handing him God's "powers".
A potential ordeal that mislead the filmmakers to blaspheme lowering God onto a human level is probably a total lack of enlightenment in theology, an all too common predicament for the lost souls out there who qualify as agnostics. It's worse than ridiculous to describe God's abilities as "powers", like He'd be a meanly superhero or villain, because in catechism, God is represented as a being eternally the most superlative force in the universe, Whose status as the almighty is never temporary, and thus would never have his "powers" "revoked" from Him. Another misdirection that this impure movie dissipates into is the totally inexpert struggle by the spin doctors who were hired by said studio to, in a version of `damage control', explain away the sacrilegious theme of the movie. They ineptly stumble to this by reasoning out that the "message" of the film is really "positive" because it shows that if someone "prays" for something that they'll get what they want, and that God (Freeman) will teach those a lesson who question Him (Carrey). Inevitably, I'm pressured to retrospect, "What the heck?!?!?!?!?!?!?" This is yet another dissoluteness confessing the humiliatingly brittle education those atheists have about theology because the church itself teaches that, since this is a matter of the mystery of faith, God doesn't reward people who ask selfishly only for favors unto themselves, otherwise religion would be cheapened to an equivalent of selling indulgences! Furthermore, most of the time, even people who licitly have much more righteous and serious requests don't get their prayers answered, and certainly not "people" who beg of God these blackly idiotic and nauseating requests to prove Himself to them, incidentally another sacrilege, since you're not supposed to put God to the test. Also low-brow is the sophist "reasoning" that God teaches Carrey a lesson, so this makes for a "positive" "message". That impious premise is really an outlandish degradation of what theology strictly forbids: namely the fact that anyone will never be on a comparable level with God.
Rest assured, those $85 million worth of you religiously unconscientious atheists who outrightly put materialistic pleasure over virtuous to go see this film, you can still catch intentionally unprincipled Hollywood's assault on core family values in almost all their releases anyway. More affronting in this movie is the purposeful monstrosity of swearing, which was utterly unnecessary, and only serves to malignantly worsen an already fearsomely God-assailing movie. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 07, 2005 | | Summary | One of the comedian's funniest, most entertaining movies in years | Content
| He's already been a pet detective, a lawyer who couldn't lie, and a multiple personality, so it only seems fitting that funnyman Jim Carrey, aka the modern Jerry Lewis, try his hand at being God Himself. The result is one of the comedian's funniest, most entertaining movies in years, despite that his character is a not-all-too-likeable, self-centered, chronic whiner.
That pretty much sums up Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey), a frustrated newscaster who's fed up with presenting "the lighter side of the news", and has his eye on a soon-to-be-available anchor position. When Bruce discovers during his first live news broadcast that the promotion has been awarded to someone else, the news goes to his head. In a single day he ruins his newscast, gets fired from his job, is beaten up by a gang after trying to defend a homeless man from them, and crashes his car into a pole. Dissatisfied with his mediocre life and his supportive girlfriend, Grace (Jennifer Aniston), Bruce gives the Almighty a piece of his mind.
The Man Upstairs (Morgan Freeman), tired of Bruce's constant carping, offers him the chance to do a better job by bestowing the job wannabe with all of His powers. Bruce wastes no time using his new abilities for his own gain, taking revenge on everyone who has wronged him and even spicing up his love life.
But not everything is as simple as it seems-being the Almighty means answering the innumerable prayers of the entire world, or, at least, those of Buffalo. His attempt to answer all of them blindly causes disaster and throws all of creation out of whack. Worse, his neglected relationship is in shambles, and suddenly Bruce is learning just what it means to be lonely at the top. After begging the real God to fix everything, he also learns an important lesson in being careful for what you wish for.
If there's a flaw here, it's the trite, predictable ending, which ties everything up neatly and has a bit too much of a goody-goody feel to it. The script, although quite funny, could also have taken the premise a little further. However, Carrey, reunited with Pet Detective and Liar director Tom Shadyac, is in fine form. The humor is divided equally between the verbal and the physical, and Carrey excels at both. It's a part tailor written for him-no one else could play the part to quite such a goofy extent as Carrey.
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| Rating | | | Date | June 29, 2005 | | Summary | My second favorite Carrey movie | Content
| Jim Carrey is back. In this hilarious, he's basically GOD. This happens after he complains about how terrible a job God is doing. So God played exceptionally well by Morgan Freeman gives his powers to Bruce for one week to make a point. He gives them to him to see how good a God he would be. And of course, Bruce realizes that it's no piece of cake. The movie is so absolutely hilarious because of Jim Carrey. He once again has proven himself as a really talented and funny comedian. The movie also though has a good moral at the end. But, believe me, this is just hilarious. Bruce makes his dog pee in the toilet and then puts everyone's prayers in his e-mail box. (Yahweh instead of Yahoo)
Well the movie certainly delivers a lot of laughs and I find this and Liar Liar to be two Jim Carrey movies that should be in everyone's collection. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 20, 2005 | | Summary | Cute, harmless, and mildly entertaining | Content
| This innocuous film starring Jim Carrey is familiar comedic territory: a man who doesn't appreciate what he has is given a unique means of insight. Bruce (Carrey) is a Buffalo, New York television reporter assigned to cover all the fluff pieces despite his ambition of making it big as an anchorman. While he loves his girlfriend Grace (Jennifer Anniston), he fails to take their relationship seriously, instead concentrating on himself and his career goals. He blames God, and not himself, for everything that has gone wrong in his life. After an on-air breakdown, he applies for a job and instead finds himself meeting God in the kindly, sly form of Morgan Freeman. God decides he will go on vacation and leave Bruce in charge since Bruce already believes he can do a better job. Of course, we all know that Bruce cannot possibly have the necessary wisdom and heart, and what follows is predictable in general, humorous in the specifics.
The humor in this film is not as wild nor as irreverent as Carrey's movies often are. As a result, when Carrey tries to break loose with his familiar over-the-top style, it is jarring. Still, there are some good, if not memorable, moments: when Bruce discovers his new powers, when he uses them to subvert the success of his rival (a hilarious performance by Steven Carell), when he hits upon a method to organize the millions of prayers coming in. The real problem of the script is that Bruce uses his powers for selfish means and yet never comes to that realization. His job as God never seems to get in his way, and the trouble he causes is always in the background instead of creating obstacles his character must surmount. As a result, Bruce's "growth" is predictable and shallow. He might as well been given superpowers from the X-men instead of God. Despite this, the pacing ensures that the viewer is swept along with the action, laughing at Bruce's antics while knowing all along what will happen.
"Bruce Almighty" delivers a few good laughs and a feel-good, unchallenging ending--exactly the type of entertainment one might want after a long day I suggest renting instead of buying since its comedy fades as soon as the screen darkens. |
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