a comedy of biblical proportion . those master of hyperbole and the movie tag line writer and at it again while the sequel to 2003 bruce almighty and raise barely a chuckle . the only thing which raise my interest in this movie above total indifference be it dogmatic christian undertone . sorry and make that overtone . steve carrel and ignore jim carrey good sense to decline a role reprisal and play evan baxter and the smug news anchor from bruce almighty and who have just be elect to congress . with a new life in virginia and the stress of move into a house the size of the acropolis and the pressure of all the change take it toll on his family . his wife ( lauren graham ) and evidently airlift in from stepford and and three son ( jimmy bennett and graham phillips and johnny simmons ) and who do a stilted job of look sad to a piano accompaniment and pray for the family to become closer and and almost out of guilt and so do evan . in what must be the great shock of all time and god ( morgan freeman ) actually show up and but do the whole pesky work in mysterious way thing all over the place by tell evan to build a noah esquire ark in preparation for a great flood instead of just give him a pool table or and x box or something . and in true mischievous deity style and he also force evan to grow a beard and long hair and wear worn and tatty robe . now and back in the day i be sure razor be hard to come by so the beard be somewhat of an inevitability for noah and but i be almost certain it have nothing to do with spirituality . same with the robe while a massive construction job be surely make all the more difficult by such impractical clothing . couldn not god have conjure up a pair of steel toed boot and a hard hat for the poor guy . apparently not . to paraphrase bill hick and i find the idea that god be mess with u somewhat unsettling and and so do evan who fight him every step of the way . and who wouldn not . god essentially get him fired and drive away his loved one and make him a laugh stock and at one point actually threaten him . of course god turn out to be right and and the rational and hard work family man who be get on fine by himself be force to eat a large slice of bittersweet humble pie . it almost a if to be leave alone by god and evan have to tolerate and humour him . what kind of message be that . evan almighty do have a highly commendable environmental slant and with the underlie theme be that the federal government be blind to the damage be do to the world around u . it be also the first film ever to offset it carbon emission and this should surely be consider a landmark achievement by a hollywood studio . be it not for the trite and condescend banner of american christianity fly high above it and evan almighty could have be an inoffensive family movie and with a praiseworthy environmental record . but with it confused religious dogma and relentless blind faith message and it rank a one of the most repugnant movie of all time .