DVD Review "EVAN ALMIGHTY" Score C- 70%

I wanted to check this one out for two reasons, I liked the first one and two I like Steve Carrel. Now first off let me say if you liked the first one this is absolutely nothing.... and I mean nothing like the first one. Other than Morgan Freeman playing GOD in both, and Steve Carrel having the same name as the character he played in the first one this is a completely different movie. I think that they had an idea for a movie where God picks a new Moses and makes him build an Ark then they said hey Bruce Almighty was a hit and made us money lets just make this the sequel and since Carrel is hot right now use him. But his character is completely different.....ah so what, but he's not Evan Almighty as in Bruce was taking over God's job for a while.....ah so what. Also this is going to be really expensive....ah so what...... WELL it was the most expensive comedy ever made and it was a world wide super flop too. And good reasons too. The first was a comedy this one is a family friendly after school special. The first one the lead became God and had all the powers too. This one he becomes Noah and has no powers at all. After watching the extras on the DVD to try to salvage the movie some...I learned where all the money went.... they build a real full sized ARK.... why? The director thought they should. Then they filmed every animal separately, why? they wanted to put a gazillion animals in the film. Other animals they created fully digitally... why? some would not cooperate as actors. And all these things they spent money on...... wasted.... When you see a film like Titanic and really look at the movie as a whole you can see where their money went... most of it is on screen or in the effects..... when you watch this you don't see anything spectacular or outstanding. In fact the opposite happens you say to yourself where did they spend all that money? Oh yea in about one minute of the extras one digital artist says he spent massive creation on a shot where all the animals are on the ARK and are reacting to the storm... this probably took him months to do and was the only shot he did....its about one half a second in the film. Really just a waste of a lot of money and a really good potential sequel. Evan the douche reporter could have been taught a lesson by GOD where he gets his powers like Bruce did in the first one and some great ending comes about. Instead what we got was a poor excuse to build an ARK an tell a family friendly Noah in Washington story. Not good. You can skip it like everyone did in the theaters.