Bruce Almighty tackled this idea over a decade ago, and you quickly realise that the Jim Carrey blockbuster executed it with much more wit and invention.
Directed by Monty Python’s Terry Jones, who should know better, it’s an aggressively witless Bruce Almighty rip-off that sees the newly empowered Pegg seducing neighbour Kate Beckinsale, enlarging his own penis and trudging through a plethora of “jokes” so leaden that the movie eventually seems to take…
Although Jones has said he loosely based the story around H.G. Wells' short story, The Man Who Could Work Miracles, modern audiences are more likely to compare it to 2003's Bruce Almighty, starring Jim Carrey.