EVAN ALMIGHTY
In one of the weirdest splnoffs of all time, TV news anchor and newly-elected congressman Evan Baxter (Steve Carell) is visited by God (Morgan Freeman) and asked to build an ark in preparation for a great flood. Baxter's character, also played by Carell, was Jim Carrey's nemesis in 2003's Bruce Almighty, in which Bruce (Carrey) thinks he can fix the world's problems better than God himself (Freeman), with moderately humorous results.
Films like The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Evan Almighty are putting Steve Carell in clanger of becoming a comedic one-note. While his dramatic career is beginning to blossom (Little Miss Sunshine), his physical comedy and PG-rated …
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