Movie Review - Bruce Almighty

The movie takes place in present day where Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey) plays the role of a news reporter who seems to have nothing going his way. Bruce’s dream is to work at the desk at there local news station, instead of his current position as a field reporter. When the office prick receives the job instead of him, he flips out, and is in turn fired from his job. He then meets God (Morgan Freeman) who endows Bruce with all of his powers for one week. While Bruce is God, things go awful. He starts to hear voices in his head, which he realizes are people’s prayers. Bruce then grants everybody everything they want, and the chaos begins. At a party Bruce is throwing, his girlfriend of five years Grace (Jennifer Aniston) catches

A comedy movie should move people. It should not only make them laugh, but even make them feel that they learned something from the movie. A movie that only tells jokes or only puts people into funny situations, leaves the audience with nothing but a witty punch line to use on the first person they see. Bruce Almighty however, uses brilliant acting, funny situations and a well thought out theme that brings the entire movie together, delivering a cinematic experience that leaves the audience with more than a joke to tell around the water cooler the next day.

All the jokes in the world however, cannot makeup for a poor plot that has no theme. In Bruce Almighty, Bruce continually blames God for his problems saying, “It’s not that God hates me, he’s completely ignoring me! Yes I have much to be thankful for, his blessings are raining down upon me. Oh wait that’s not rain!” Yet after becoming God, Bruce realized that God cannot make all people happy all of the time. Rather it is up to people to make the best of what they have and to find a way to be happy with that. Bruce also learned that some things just are the way they are and you cant change them no matter how hard you try.

Bruce kissing another woman. Grace storms out of the party and out of Bruce’s life. Bruce then

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