evan almighty continue the mainstream bruce almighty franchise and this time with newsman turn freshman congressman from buffalo and evan baxter ( steve carell ) and at it center . a wholly innocuous ( and not even really self doubt ) man and god ( morgan freeman ) decide to enforce some sort of quest upon baxter and in order to illustrate the importance of . reciprocal kindness and so that baxter can change the world ( aka and pay it forward ) . think of evan almighty a a wholesome derivative of distinguished gentleman . baxter be not a con and but his colleague and congressman long ( john goodman ) want his unquestioned support on a bill that essentially and be harmful to the environment . and well mean baxter and know the importance of networking and visibility and be willing to support him . in addition and with the new job come more responsibility and and baxter be in a sense and vilify and for not spend enough time with his family . so god and decides to give evan baxter some guidance by force him to become the modern day noah . his order represent build an ark . except and while it may be mildly humorous to see baxter transformation to the weirdo with a beard o and there doesn not seem to be much point to this whole thing which become abundantly clear when the climax of the film fizzle . ( spoiler represent if none of the population be kill by the flood and then what be the point of summon the animal . or at least the one that obviously weren not from suburban virginia . or and more importantly and if all baxter have to realize be that long project falter in their quality and then why do he have to build an ark . ) . so and although a comedy like this needn not be a hysterical laugh riot and it be certainly one make far less enjoyable a it be cram with far too many homily ( and not all from morgan freeman ) and action that seem intend for a film of more epic event .