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Evan Almighty

Author

anonymous

Date reviewed

2007-11-30 15:50:24

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DVD Review

When the original's star walks away from a franchise it's normally means the series either retires gracefully, or makes DVD stores clear their shelves for a barrage of ever increasing cheap future instalments until even the most die hard of fan is screaming for it to stop.

What you don't do is hire a second string character from the first, build a new story around him and throw over $100 million at it. To be fair, Steve Carell wasn't the box-office name he is now when the first one came out, but it was still a risky move. And it's a risky move that backfires in almost every way.

The idea of Carell being summoned by God (a role once again reprised by Morgan Freeman) to build an ark is a fairly promising one - but it's washed away by inane jokes (that normally resolve around animal droppings) and a general sense that neither of the star cast really warm to the whole thing.

And so why you would buy it on DVD is a mystery - but at least the outakes are funnier than anything in the script.

Some critics called it a biblical mess - it's not that bad but if the Devil made all the best songs he seems to have been a dab hand at screenwriting too. Either way God needs a new agent and fast.