In EVAN ALMIGHTY, Steve Carell picks up where
Jim Carrey left off in the 2003 man-meets-God comedy
Bruce Almighty, in which Carrell portrayed scene-stealing, self-centered newscaster Evan Baxter. In this sequel, Evan is a newly-elected Congressman living in a suburban McMansion –-. While Evan's networking on Capitol Hill with his staff (
Wanda Sykes, who gets the best lines, and character funnymen
John Michael Higgins and
Jonah Hill), his long-suffering wife (
Gilmore Girls mom
Lauren Graham) and three sons feel neglected. God feels her pain, and proving that The Heavenly Father Knows Best, he steps in and commands Evan to build an ark with his boys, turn into an even hairier Barry Gibb doppelganger, and make good on his campaign promise to "change the world."