Year: 2007

Director: Tom Shadyac

with a budget of about $200 million, Evan Almighty is the most expensive comedy every made. and if i was giving it a dollar:laugh ratio rating it would be about $100 million per laugh. okay, maybe i'm exaggerating. if i think really hard, maybe i can remember laughing three or four times during the film so to be fair lets put it at $500 000:1 laugh.

either way, this film is a huge piece of junk. not that laughs are the only thing that matters in a comedy. but, the term "comedy" does imply that jokes/laughs/humor are kind of important don't you think? well, obviously someone forgot to tell that to screenplay writer steve odenkirk and the rest of he people involved in this disaster of biblical proportions. even wanda sykes, who usually is able to bring the funny to things, couldn't even come close to saving this thing (although of the four laughs in the film, she provided at least three of them).

i love steve carrell on The Office, but he brings nothing to this film that is of any interest. i was pretty disappointed in the first film, Bruce Almighty also - it felt like a one joke movie idea - but at least jim carrey was funny and made the most out of that one joke premise. Evan Almighty is a one-joke premise without a joke attached to a rather predictable, family-friendly, safe, forgettable, huge-budget disappointment.