Defamer
The weekend of reckoning has finally arrived for Evan Almighty, aka The Most Expensive Comedy Story Ever Told, an occasion marked by dozens of nervous Universal executives kneeling before makeshift shrines and praying that their religious marketing partners are going to deliver the arkloads of Christians they promised. And while the reviews have not been kind, they have most certainly been creative, taking full advantage of the movie's biblical themes in trumpeting, amidst Almighty's zoological bounty, the arrival of the summer's biggest turkey. A smattering of memorable headlines:
· 'Evan' can wait: Silly concept flick just God-awful [FortWayne.com/UPS]
· Noah way! Slapstick of 'Evan Almighty' tempered by strong performances [KCChronicle.com]
· Just say Noah [Star-Telegram.com]
· 'Evan Almighty' could have used some divine intervention [Freep.com]
· God tells Steve Carell to build an ark, but nothing keeps sequel from sinking [SF Chronicle]
· "Evan Almighty": Comedy begets a multitude of winces [DenverPost.com]
· Thou shalt not laugh at 'Evan' [Memphis Commercial Appeal]
· You can sleep through 'Evan Almighty's' flood [Kansas City Star]
· 'Evan' just all-righty [Detroit News]
- Previously: Universal Ready To Knock Over Christians And Steal Their Collection Basket Money [Defamer]
Comments
To: Jon Stewart
From : Steve Carell
HA HA HA! That whole "movie" thing was so funny, huh? I can't wait to get back to my "real job" on the Daily Show.
Steve Carell Jumps the Sheep
You know, if I gave two shits about what critics though, I'd be worried.
*thought. Dammit. I NEED the weekend.
250M + Tom Shadyac. Honestly, no one saw this coming? This is the man who gave birth to Patch Adams.
Oh... you did see it coming? Never mind.
Am I the only one comfortable in overestimating the bad taste of the American public?
Animals + God + PG rating + hot weather = Box Office Gold
It's like Dr. Doolittle meets the Passion of the Christ! For the whole family!
To ELP:
But are there any pandas in it?
See, if they'd asked Steve to go with the heartbroken, suicidal, gay persona, they'd have had a hit on their hands.
Holy Camel Crap
A Beast of a Movie
What a Great Big Raft of Shit!
@NotReadyForPrimeTime: The unrated director's cut will showcase a full thirty minutes of pandas fucking, and repopulating the earth entirely with pandas, making way for a threequel: PANDAS ALMIGHTY.
Damn. Another crappy movie with Lauren Graham in it.
@Everybody Likes Pandas: If you put premiere tickets on Ebay, I will mortgage my life to go: Butterstick on Lin-Lin - that is entertainment.
Oh God! Not another cheesy bible story. I just spoke to God and he said to skip this one!
Could this be proof that God does not exist?
I love Steve Carell, I loved the original, but when you have a separate marketing website for the religious right that's just too much for me. Plus, they gave away the whole movie in the trailer. Wouldn't it have been more fun if we didn't know it was really going to flood?
@WasatchMan: Seriously. She deserves better.
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