Oh, God! 1977

Critics score:
72 / 100

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Janet Maslin, New York Times: An uneasy amalgam or inconsistent attitudes, without enough humor or zaniness to divert attention from its questionable premise. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: George Burns seems to be warming up for a good Second City sketch on God's return to earth as a rumpled vaudevillian, but it soon becomes clear that director Carl Reiner isn't kidding -- he really thinks this movie is going to save the world. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Carl Reiner's Oh, God! is a treasure of a movie: A sly, civilized, quietly funny speculation on what might happen if God endeavored to present himself in the flesh yet once again to forgetful Man. Read more

Time Out: The result plays like an over-extended version of the Reiner/Mel Brooks 2000-Year-Old Man sketches. Read more

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