Evan Almighty provides delightful and wholesome entertainment for both kids and adults alike. It is both fun and serious. Evan Almighty imparts important messages about family values, ecological responsibility and the importance of small acts of kindness.
It is also one of the few recent movies that has a biblical theme albeit a modern parable. Evan Almighty is based on the Noah’s Ark story to some degree. It would have been a better movie if it featured a global deluge rather than a localize flood.
Here is an interesting acronym for ARK coined for the movie:
- ARK: = “Do An Act of Random Kindness”.
- Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
Don’t leave the theater before Evan Almighty film credits ends. Watch the cast’s hilarious dance sequence to the big 1980s dance hit - “Everybody Dance Now!” by the C+C Music Factory. The movie is a sequel to the hugely successful Jim Carrey’s “Bruce Almighty” which is not really a faith-based movie like this one. Steve Carell who starred in both "Almighty " movies, plays the reluctant modern Noah in this movie.
Evan Almighty may not be perfect, it does have some redeeming parts. In all, it a wholesome, uplifting film that will appeal to most families
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The final (deluge) scene is fairly intense, maybe even scary for very young kids.
There are some mild language used like the "Oh my G--" swearing. Profanity is limited to a few "almost" curses that get diverted at the last minute. There is some bathroom and body part humor, mostly to do with animals.
While Christians may embrace the movie's theme on the obedience to the creator, they are likely to reject to the movie's central premise that God is more concerned about ecological issues rather than with sin and other evils plaguing the earth.
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