"Evan Almighty" **1/2 (out of four): Nominal sequel to "Bruce Almighty" finds Steve Carell assigned Noah's job. Once you stop laughing at that, there's not much left.

An attempt to build a franchise around Jim Carrey's mildly comic mild hit, “Evan Almighty”, the nominal sequel to 2003's “Bruce Almighty”, finds an ordinary guy given Noah’s job. Ditching the Bruce character entirely, this "Almighty" focuses on Steve Carell's scene-stealingly tongue-tied newsman Evan Baxter (endowed with the Lord's powers, Bruce had memorably made Evan trip over his words on-air). Like its predecessor, "Evan" has an intriguing comic premise but collapses under its fear of theological commitment.

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