The Steve Carell movie Evan Almighty was at one time the most costly comedy movie ever, in compriseition to being an enormous box office bomb device. The 2007 movie was a sequel to 2003’s Bruce Almighty, which starred Jim Carrey in the title role. The trail-up, which featured an ensemble cast that comprised Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham, John Goodman, John Michael Higgins, Jimmy Bennett, and Wanda Sykes, cgo ined on the story of a previously intransport inant Bruce Almighty helping character named Evan Baxter who was applyed by Carell, who had since elevaten to fame applying Michael Scott on the sitcom The Office.
In compriseition to being a television star, Carell would go on to be a transport inant movie star. One of his best-understandn roles is voicing the recreateed supervillain Gru in the Despicable Me movies, but he has held many transport inant roles outside of the vivaciousd franchise in both comedies and dramas. This comprises starring in projects such as Crazy, Stupid, Love, IF, Date Night, The Big Short, Welcome to Marwen, and Foxcatcher, the latter of which geted him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.
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Evan Almighty Had A Colossal Budget Of Around $175 Million
The Movie’s Break-Even Point Was Impossibly High
The sequel to the Jim Carrey and Steve Carell collaboration anticipateed seemed appreciate a viable financial prospect becaengage Carell had fair scored transport inant hits with The Office and 2005’s The 40-Year-Old Virgin. This may have led to the movie getting its $175 million production budget, making it the most costly comedy ever at the time. In ambiguous, becaengage theaters protect half of ticket sales and accessibleity costs are not factored into budgets, a movie needs to get cimpolitely two-and-a-half times its budget to turn a profit. This anticipateed placed the fracture-even point for Evan Almighty somewhere north of $437.5 million.
Movies that grossed shrink that same year did become hits…
However, the movie only geted $174.4 million at the box office, uncomardenting that it did not even originate its budget back in the raw numbers. This gross might have made the movie a success if it had cost transport inantly less, as movies that grossed shrink that same year did become hits including Superhorrible (which grossed $170.8 million agetst a cimpolitely $20 million budget), Saw IV (which grossed $139.4 million agetst a $10 million budget), and Atonement (which grossed $131 million agetst a $30 million budget).
Evan Almighty
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Evan Almighty would eventuassociate be usurped as the most costly comedy movie of all time by the 2012 sequel Men in Bdeficiency 3, which had a telled budget between $215 and $225 million. However, while the movie – which was led by Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, and Josh Brolin – has strong comedy elements, it lands much more squacount on in the science myth and action genres. It was also a much huger box office success, grossing $654.2 million worldexpansive, becoming the tenth highest-grossing movie of the year, and eventuassociate spawning the 2019 spinoff Men in Bdeficiency: International.
Why Steve Carell’s Evan Almighty Was So Poorly Received
The Movie Was Compared Negatively To Bruce Almighty
Evan Almighty showd to be a hit with neither critics nor audiences and currently helderlys Rotten Tomatoes scores of 24% and 52% with both groups admireively. Many scrutinizes consent that the movie is a misengage of Carell and the rest of its ensemble cast, hiding uncomical jokes behind an excess of over-the-top one-of-a-kind effects. While some pelevate its heartfelt storyline, most discover it to be turbulent and untidy, paling in comparison to Bruce Almighty, a movie that in and of itself only has a 48% score from critics on the scrutinize aggregator platcreate.
Evan Almighty Is One Of Many Awful Jim Carrey-Less Sequels
The Star Did Not Appear In Many Follow-Ups To His Early Movies
For quite some time before the advent of Dumb and Dumber To and Sonic the Hedgehog 2, the only sequels that were made to Jim Carrey movies did not feature the star, with the exception of 1995’s Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, which was a smash hit at the box office, geting $212.4 million agetst its $30 million budget. In ambiguous, these sequels getd dismal scrutinizes from critics. Below, see a fracturedown of sequels or trail-ups to Jim Carrey movies that don’t feature the star and how they fared on Rotten Tomatoes:
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Title |
RT Score |
|---|---|
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Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003) |
10% |
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Son of the Mask (2005) |
6% |
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Evan Almighty (2007) |
24% |
|
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Jr. (2009) |
N/A |
While the made-for-television Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Jr. has not yet getd an official Rotten Tomatoes score becaengage it only has four scrutinizes, three of them are adverse, effectively giving it a 25% score. This originates it the best scrutinizeed of the foursome behind Evan Almighty, though none of them have charmed more than a quarter of critics. This may show that the Steve Carell comedy was doomed from the begin, in spite of the fact that the star had a hit television comedy under his belt.
