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Plot Summary
Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey) is a
reporter who is trying to get “anchorman” on his TV news station.
He never gets a chance to report on the big events and keeps
getting the silly trivial local stories.
He is constantly moaning to his girlfriend, Grace (Jennifer
Aniston), about how “hard-done-by” he is.
When he loses out to a colleague for the “anchorman” job he
rants and raves about how life isn’t fair and that it’s all God’s
fault.
God
(Morgan Freeman) decides that if Bruce thinks he can do the job better he
can go and do it while he takes a vacation!
God gives Bruce his powers and sends him on his way…
Review
This comedy is very much a Jim
Carrey vehicle. He gets up to
his usual antics of slapstick comedy, pulling faces and fooling around.
In this regard he doesn’t really offer anything new.
Your enjoyment of the movie with probably depend on whether you
like Jim Carrey or not as he very much takes centre stage for the whole
movie.
The movie is funny and
entertaining enough in a light-hearted frivolous way but don’t expect
too much from the plot which other than the main idea of God giving Bruce
his powers doesn’t really go any further and ends up fairly predictably.
For example when Bruce gets the powers of God he is fairly shallow
and not very imaginative. He
gets a sports car and evens some scores with his employers.
There was definite an opportunity for some big ideas here!
Rather than have Jim Carrey
“carry” the whole movie I thought better use could have been made of
the supporting cast. Jennifer
Aniston offers good support as Bruce’s girlfriend Grace but should have
had more opportunity to get involved in the comedy.
Likewise with Morgan Freeman, his straight performance balanced the
goofy antics of Jim Carrey but I thought he should have played a bigger
part.
Bottom Line:
Funny enough but nothing special.
If you like Jim Carrey you’ll probably enjoy the movie but if
you’re not a fan of his face pulling and slapstick antics give it a
miss.
Lasting
thought: Sometimes
unanswered prayers are best.
Reviewed by Niall
Quinn,
Premier Movie
Reviews 2003
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