Evan Almighty is an ungainly melding of religious paean, big-budget studio comedy, feel-good family niceties and summer-blockbuster spectacle.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2008

For long after the waters have subsided, there remains a very wide gap between havoc and hilarity.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 21, 2007

Should have been a lot more amusing than it turns out.

Full Review | Aug 3, 2007

Safety over satire at almost every turn.

| Aug 3, 2007

Avoid like the Ten Plagues.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 3, 2007

One very expensive flop.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 3, 2007

Staggeringly unfunny.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 3, 2007

Beyond Heaven's help.

| Aug 3, 2007

As modern-day re-stagings of Bible stories go, this is oddly less funny than The Reaping. Next time, for real laughs, do the story of Job.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 3, 2007

Mildly amusing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2007

Evan Almighty belongs to that sorry cinema subgenre, Comedy without the Funny Bits.

| Jul 15, 2007

'Evan Almighty' misses so many tricks, it ultimately misses the mark.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 14, 2007

Evan Almighty simplistically preaches the value of faith, and its overriding belief is that beneficial societal and familial change can stem from "one act of random kindness."

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2007

Evan Almighty strains consistently to pave the way for topical humor, yet lacks inspired comedic charm and a cogent message.

Full Review | Jul 11, 2007

This is PG-rated proselytizing tinged with Al Gore self-righteousness, all with the narrative thrust of a film about the apocalypse starring Kirk Cameron.

Full Review | Jun 27, 2007

It's a paper-thin alleged comedy with a laugh drought of Biblical proportions.

Full Review | Jun 25, 2007

It's like a lazy summer day - too light and inconsequential to really get excited about, but you have to be pretty cranky to complain too loudly.

Full Review | Jun 25, 2007

This is the Old Testament minus the wrath, divine retribution as chicken soup for the soul -- where's the fun in that?

| Jun 22, 2007

It's an almighty, humorless bore.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 22, 2007

Neither biblical disaster nor heavenly treat, the underwhelming Evan Almighty can still lay claim to a superlative: it's the bravest (or craziest) movie of 2007.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 22, 2007