Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Bruce Almighty

Hilarious in parts but with a vaguely unpleasant aftertaste of big country, small town religiosity. It's odd that in a movie that is essentially a Jim Carrey vehicle, the ad-libbing star seems to be thrashing around in a choppy sea of comic ideas. A plot like this has almost too many possibilities. In this case you get the impression that the writing team brainstormed the concept to death and then tried to fit as many of the gags as they could into 101 minutes. Even then I could help but spend time fretting about the enormous range of unrealised possibilities.

Clearly one of the perks of omnipotence is having your coffee served up by Juan Valdez in person, complete with burro - surely one of the most waggish product plugs yet attempted in celluloid?

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