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Bruce Almighty’ proves the existence of holy crap

Bruce Almighty” answers the question we’ve all been wondering: Who is God? In the past, we’ve been treated to a variety of answers ranging from an old man with a beard who sits on a throne to George Burns to Alanis Morrisette.

Bruce Almighty postulates that Morgan Freeman is God. And he gets a little sick of Jim Carrey constantly whining so he makes him God. And Jennifer Aniston is thrown in for good measure.

Actually there is a little more to it. Jim Carrey plays Bruce, a Buffalo, N.Y., news reporter upset with the way his life is going. However, the movie never explains the more interesting question: why someone who is married to Jennifer Aniston would be upset with their life? I can’t imagine a Brad Pitt biopic tackling this same issue.

Nevertheless, Bruce is upset about the stories he has to cover: unimportant local events. He really wants to be the anchor of the evening news. After being passed over for a promotion, he goes insane on his first live broadcast. He is then fired.

Bruce continually talks out loud to God about his unhappiness, to the point where you want to yell at the movie to get God to appear and get it over with before we have to sit through a remake of “Ace Ventura,” “The Mask” and “Dumb and Dumber” combined.

Lo and behold Bruce meets God, and tells the big guy that he thinks he could do a better job as a deity. God agrees and Bruce temporarily gets his wish. He can do anything he dreams of, so long as it doesn’t interfere with free will.

There are lots of really cool things Bruce could have done as God. But simpleminded Bruce merely uses his powers to get back his job and make Grace (Jennifer Aniston) horny.

For example, Bruce uses his powers to make the current news anchor talk gibberish. It would have been cooler if he had the anchor speak ancient Latin and spin his head

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