Hate it when those darn rivers cover up our usable land! How dare they get in the way of our urban sprawl! Look, you're right that I didn't see the movie, and my understanding of the details is based on a few trailers and reviews. Nobody dies, nobody gets hurt, nobody loses their livelihood? So that makes it a good comedy? Absolutely not. My point is that this movie should be seen in its cultural context, which includes a very recent and very real disasterous flood. The fictional flood, treated as it is in this mediocre comedy, cheapens the hardship of those who suffered in Katrina. And those who suffered the worst in the real storm were largely very poor and African American. Does "Evan Almighty" deal with these issues at all? Or does it pretend that poor and disadvantaged groups are literally in the same boat as the middle- and upper- classes, whose insurance plans will give them the funds for a fresh start? Comedy and satire can be very good ways to deal with tragedy. Pirandello did it brilliantly in his tragicomic plays. So did Art Spiegelman in his graphic novels about the Shoah. And there have been many, many poignant political cartoons about Katrina and FEMA's inadequate response. But this film is of mediocre comic quality. It treats a natural disaster so freshly stamped on our national memory (and even sets it up with corrupt politicians and a weak levy), and by my estimation it ignores all of the big social problems that were exposed when Katrina hit. Pretending that racism doesn't exist isracism, whether Morgan Freeman is playing God not. Pretending that it's not such a big deal to lose your home trivializes the plight of the thousands who did lose their homes two years ago.