Evan Almighty is an ungainly melding of religious paean, big-budget studio comedy, feel-good family niceties and summer-blockbuster spectacle.

For long after the waters have subsided, there remains a very wide gap between havoc and hilarity.

Should have been a lot more amusing than it turns out.

...a hit-and-miss comedy that ultimately fares best within its lighthearted, sporadically funny first half...