(Soundbite of movie, "Evan Almighty") MASTERS: Special effects, including a biblical flood in the nation's capital. "Evan Almighty" cost about $175 million, if you believe Universal's numbers.

The problems with "Evan Almighty" mostly boil down to questions of scale. The movie warns of an imminent flood, yet delivers ... and the special effects during the climactic sequence are at ...

Riding on a tidal wave of publicity and burdened with a budget that would sink an ark, “Evan Almighty ... effects – and there are plenty of them during the 10-minute flood scene ...

The budget for Universal Pictures' Bruce Almighty sequel, Evan Almighty starring Steve ... a comedy -- has swelled to $160 million due to visual effects costs and the seemingly unexpected ...

Released by Universal, "Evan Almighty" has Carell as a new congressman instructed by God (Morgan Freeman) to build an ark for a coming flood ... from costly visual effects. If it can hold on ...

Steve Carell plays a modern-day Noah who is called upon to build an ark in Evan Almighty. It's a "mildly ... A featurette on visual effects shows us how the techno geeks replicated the animals ...

That’s where animal trainer Mark Forbes comes in, not that he was responsible for eating up that budget (that honor goes largely to the special effects, including a vast flood scene).

‘Evan Almighty” has a very funny man at its center, and a climactic flood bombastic enough to fit into “The Day After Tomorrow” or any one of DeMille’s biblical forays. But the divine ...

This does mean that Tom Shadyac’s “Evan Almighty ... the visual effects unit and production designer Linda DeScenna put together the ark, animals and the biblical flood required.

By Kirk Honeycutt, The Associated Press This review was written for the theatrical release of “Evan Almighty ... cinematographer Ian Baker, the visual effects unit and production designer ...

Bruce Almighty was the one ... worrying that the story of the Flood suggests a wrathful and judgemental divinity, Freeman’s God reassures us by telling Evan that murdering every man, woman ...