Evan Almighty: \"Oh My God, This Movie Sucks,\" Says Roeper

Your Bodog Beat editors were not looking forward to writing a first-hand "Evan Almighty" review for you. Luckily for us, movie critic Richard Roeper took the hit. (Courtesy Spyglass Entertainment )

Slated as the most expensive comedy of all time, it seemed to Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Richard Roeper that the money was spent on elephants and monkeys, rather than script writers. Roeper writes:

"Oh, my God, this movie sucks. I'll say this much: Kudos to Jim Carrey for pulling off perhaps the most amazing disappearing-act hat trick in motion-picture history. With his non-appearance in "Evan Almighty," the follow-up to the smash hit "Bruce Almighty" (2003), Carrey has now NOT appeared in three of the worst sequels of all time:

• "Dumb and Dumberer"
• "Son of the Mask"
• "Evan Almighty"

Talk about dodging bullets.

To be fair, this is the least awful of that horrific trio -- but that's kind of like surviving a car wreck and saying your fractured toe isn't as painful as your shattered spine or your missing nose. "Evan Almighty" is a paper-thin alleged comedy with a laugh drought of biblical proportions, and a condescendingly simplistic spiritual message. It is so bad, I came close to throwing my caffeinated beverage at the screen."

Unfortunately, it looks like the funny-man Steve Carall who garnered acclaim and popularity from stints on "The Daily Show" to his supporting role in the original "Bruce Almighty" to starring roles in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "The Office" has folded to the temptations of the big budget blockbusters with big paychecks. At the end of Roeper's scathing review, he says, "...there's no movie here -- just a concept that holds little promise and can't even deliver on those low expectations."

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