"Feckless?"
"You are without feck."
Take Bruce Almighty, replace Jim Carrey and God with Simon Pegg and aliens, and you basically have this rather tepid Brit-com. Simon Pegg is thankfully as affable as ever as the ordinary schoolteacher who is imbued with omnipotent power as a test to see if mankind should be spared destruction through his actions for good or evil. The literal results of his requests are occasionally amusing, and his English-speaking pet dog (voiced by Robin Williams) has some potential, but the film is thrown off-kilter by an awful American stalker sub-plot/character, and the film's writing for the female characters is distressingly appalling (a spectacular Bechdel Test failure!) - Kate Beckinsale is to be commended for an heroic attempt to wring something out of the horrible lines and situations her character is given. Whilst not a disaster, Absolutely Anything would have been served by better writing and stronger ideas.
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