Monty Python's Terry Jones directs and co-scripts this silly special effects-driven comedy, reportedly inspired by an H.G. Wells story ("The Man Who Could Work Miracles"), that delivers on a few decent laughs, but not quite enough to recommend to anyone who doesn't fawn at this impressive ensemble of talent. Part of that impressive cast comes in the form of a (sort of) reunited Monty Python clan, their first full collaboration of the five remaining players since 1983's The Meaning of Life and, according to Jones, their last. They're here voicing powerful extraterrestrial CGI characters known as the Intergalactic Council of Superior Beings, interplanetary civilization destroyers who end up finding a space probe that leads them to discover Earth and determine whether the beings on it should be worthy of continued existence. To judge this, they've imbued a random person with god-like powers to do absolutely anything they want, and if, at the end of a ten day period (one wonders what constitutes a day for space-traveling beings that don't revolve around our sun) this being uses his powers for good, they'll let the species continue. Unfortunately, that person is the feckless, woebegone London-based schoolteacher and aspiring writer Neil Clarke, who soon discovers his powers and merely uses them for his own petty desires, including to impress his gorgeous downstairs neighbor Catherine and to give his scruffy dog Dennis the voice and introspectiveness of a human being.
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