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The movie warns of an imminent flood, yet delivers only sprinkles of laughter or anything approaching magic.
Brian Lowry
Variety
It's mildly diverting for kids and families in a way that would be perfectly fine as an ABC Family cable project (perhaps before "The 700 Club"), but sails into the summer anchored to all the baggage and expectations a comedy with an enormous budget invites. Universal has courted church groups and will need them to line up, two by two and then some, to fully recoup on their epic investment.

Bottom Line: The animals have all the best lines.
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
Situating the biblical story of Noah and the Ark in a Washington that closely resembles Frank Capra's "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" makes for one determined stab at a populist comedy. In Hollywood's newfound desire to court Christian audiences, nothing apparently is too over the top.

Right-wing commentators who fulminate about the absence of God and Holy Scripture in Hollywood movies should be pleased
David Edelstein
New York Magazine
Evan Almighty runs out of comic invention early, and the filmmakers fall back on what real politicians do when they exhaust their small stash of ideas: brainless piety.

“Evan Almighty” is a heartwarming adventure
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve
Yes, it's sentimental and you have to suspend disbelief (why would the crowd mock Evan as a loon, since after all, 100 pairs of animals are watching him build the ark?), but it's an entertaining enough pic albeit one not crammed with laughs.