Evan Almighty is a comedic film that is the sequal to the box office hit, “Bruce Almighty”. It picks up with Evan, the small role that occurred in the first movie; an anchor man who works at the Buffalo, NY news station. In the sequel, Evan gets elected to congress, where his first task is to co-sponsor a bill to allow development in national parks. God, played once again by the incomparable Morgan Freeman, comes to Evan to build an ark, and bring aboard animals by the pairs. What this film brought with it was a message of respecting the earth and its inhabitants. In fact, because the message of the movie was specifically to support and protect the environment, this was NBC’s first film to offset the carbon footprint of the film. They calculated the carbon emissions of the movie, and planted enough trees to offset their emissions.

With all of the humor injected into this film, they managed to keep it clean and steer clear of bad potty humor, inappropriate language, and adult situations. A definite recommend.

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We’ve been waiting for a long time for “Evan Almighty” to open. My husband and I are Steve Carell fans, and we figured he’d be a good fit for this role. For the most part, we weren’t disappointed.

“Evan Almighty” tells the story of Evan Baxter, a newly elected congressman who finds himself tapped by God to build an ark - in the suburbs of D.C.. The story very quickly launches in to the main plot line, with animals starting to follow Evan early on in the movie. It’s mostly cute, but be warned: there are a lot of bird poop site gags, each grosser than the next. There’s also a very overt scene of a dog pooping on the lawn.

In terms of inappropriate language, at one point someone says “shit”, once, and at another point someone is “pissed”. And one of Evan’s children repeatedly tells people that “the Argentine Lake duck has a penis as long as its body,” which is true, but didn’t add much to the movie.

Aside from the unnecessary lapses in language, a flood really does happen, and it’s rather intense. Nobody is killed in the flood (at least as far as anybody knows), but the scene of the wall of water crashing into houses, the boat, people being sloshed around in the boat and, at one point, the boat plummeting over the falls, are all rather intense, and may be scary for a younger child (actually I found it too intense and looked away a few times).

On minor quibble: it’s hard to take Morgan Freeman seriously as God when he has such bad teeth.

If the above doesn’t scare you off, however, the movie is otherwise an enjoyable movie, and the animals steal all of the scenes they are in, which is a great many of them.

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