This Friday is the release of the "sequel" to Jim Carrey's 2003 Bruce Almighty.
Why?
Maybe a look at the plot will help:
Why?
Maybe a look at the plot will help:
Newly elected to Congress, Evan leaves Buffalo behind and shepherds his family to suburban northern Virginia. Once there, his life gets turned upside-down when God appears and mysteriously commands him to build an ark because of a flood coming upon the earth. But his befuddled family just can't decide whether Evan is having an extraordinary mid-life crisis or is truly onto something of biblical proportions.
Nope, still not sure why they want to take a movie where a regular guy has the powers of God and follow it up with a movie where God tells a guy to build an ark.
Maybe they just had a new batch of ark and bible jokes ready.
The tagline calls it "A comedy of biblical proportions", which makes me think it's definitely not going to be funny. Even though I've stayed away from the good book, I know it doesn't read like Without Feathers, so unless infanticide, murder, adultery, and war has become funny (although they are a little to me), where's the yuks?
No, not there either. Steve Carell was great on The Daily Show, The Office, and The 40-Year Old Virgin, but steering into PG territory (yes, the movie gets more family friendly than the first one) doesn't bode well. Does it look bad when your principal actor doesn't participate in the follow up? I'm sure everybody in Branson will rush out to see it, but I don't know if we cultured city folk will flock to it -- although we'll know exactly how many we number after the weekend box office, and I suspect very few.
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