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Noah Kidding!!!!
by T (movies profile)
May 24, 2008
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17 people found this review helpful
Evan Almighty like the ark takes a Long (no pun intended) time to build into a great comedy. Most of the jokes are forced on the audience and the chemistry with Evan (Carrell) Baxter and his wife never materializes.
Evans' life goes upside down after he leaves his job as a news anchor in Buffalo to congressman in D.C. His whole life changes: job, car, new home, new location in the elite suburbs of N. Virginia.
God appears played by Morgan Freeman who sends Evan on a quest to build an ark. There are hilarious one liners that Wanda Sykes throws into the mix and John Goodman plays the prototypical powerful congressman Long who wields power and makes deals to funnel money to his future campaign and bank account. Evan is Long's scapegoat to get a land development deal going so the heat will be on the new congressman and Long looks like the hero.
Evan's transformation and the animals following him 2 by 2 is very amusing. Evan eventually gives into God's plan as mysteriously piles of wood from a company called Go-for-Wood drops tons of wood and tools on his doorstep.
On the 22nd of September the prophecy says the rains should fall but its at this point the movie gets rained on and never quite fixes the flood damage. Building permits, new land being bought, family leaving , coming back. There is just too much fill in the blanks for this movie from how he gets elected to Congress to reading "build and Ark for Dummies" book. The special effects seemed cheesy in some sections other parts brilliant.
There are great images and principles of caring for others. Act of Random Kindness (ARK), putting your family first and praying which seems taboo and it shouldn't be in many Hollywood movies.
This is a solid family movie and some terrifc animal and bird sequences with Carrell. I recommend this film but was hoping it would have
left this viewer feeling it could have been so much better. |
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