Evan Almighty: Movie Review, DVD Review, HD DVD Review

A Steve Carell vehicle that drives the actor into a wall.

This ecologically minded, so-so sequel to the superior “Bruce Almighty” stars the ever likable Carell as Evan Baxter, who has been ordered by God (Morgan Freeman) to build an ark, because, you know, a devastating flood is coming.

Carell isn’t the problem here--he’s doing his best. Instead, it’s the crude, predictable execution of the premise that drains the movie of laughs, with the filmmakers essentially taking one of the Bible’s better known stories and lacing it with poop jokes.

How that will go down at the Pearly Gates is their problem.

As for audiences, not the talented Carell nor a divine intervention--designed by Hollywood or otherwise--can lift this movie above mediocrity.

Rated PG. Grade: C