Evan Baxter turns into Noah (who isn't all that "almighty", but I guess they have to make the sequel connection SOMEWHERE) and must build an ark before Morgan Freeman floods the world, as Morgan Freeman is apt to do.
The Good: Um, animals are cool sometimes. And Morgan Freeman plays a kindly old black man well, even one that happens to be God.
The Bad: It's not funny. At all, really. Which is an impressive feat of writing, given that it stars Steve Carrell, who happens to be innately funny.
The Ugly: Did you know that animals poop? The writers do, and they think it's HILARIOUS.
Points Pondered
-This was written by Steve Oedekerk of Kung Pow: Enter the Fist fame. I thought that movie was awesome, and I STILL wasn't entertained by this.
-When you're relying on face-making, thumb-hammering and bad haircuts to make your movie funny, you're wandering dangerously close to Three Stooges territory.
-The fact that NO ONE believes that a flood is coming even when warned by someone whom pairs of animals are obviously flocking to / he has amazing control of AND magically has all the stuff to build an ark seems like a stretch. Sure, I'd probably be somewhat skeptical (although there'd be an awful lot of stuff to try and explain away), but there would probably be tons of end-of-days folk flocking to him.
-Wanda Sykes is useless. Something happens in the movie, cut to her saying something "urbanly." Genius!
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