- Box Office Bomb: Budget, $175 million (to date, it's the most expensive live-action comedy film ever made). Box office, $100,462,298 (domestic), $173,418,781 (worldwide).
- Celebrity Paradox: Jon Stewart makes a cameo appearance making fun of Evan on The Daily Show. Carell started off as a correspondent for The Daily Show along with Stephen Colbert in the "Even Stevphens" segment.
- Creator Backlash: Steve Carell willingly brings this movie up as one of his less successful films while appearing as a guest on Between Two Ferns
.Zach Galifianakis: What is the thing that you're most proud of in your career?Steve Carell: Oh, Evan Almighty, of course! That's what I'm proud of!Zach Galifianakis: That's a good movie!Steve Carell: Fuck you, fatty!Zach Galifianakis: Steve, I'm not-Steve Carell: Just lead me right into that and smack me across the face.Zach Galifianakis: It's a great movie! Regardless of- that it lost a lot of money and all that stuff. No one saw it and the budget was way over and no one was interested in seeing it... It's a great movie! - Creator Killer: The massive failure of the movie torpedoed the careers of director Tom Shadyac and screenwriter Steve Oedekerk; the former quit Hollywood,note and has mostly stuck to directing documentaries, while the latter hasn't worked on another film since, instead working on children's TV shows until the cancellation of Planet Sheen also sunk his career in that field.
- Deleted Scene: Several scenes that mostly feature expanded versions of scenes in the final film can be found in the bonus features, but the most notable of these scenes is one where Evan rushes to rescue the stray dog that had been hanging around his house, and freeing another dog it was trying to help. The stray dog is shown inexplicably among the crowd of humans in the final film as the ark crashes into Capital Hill; this scene was meant to explain why it was there.
- Distanced from Current Events: The flood that Evan foresaw was meant to indeed be global. But Hurricane Katrina seemed to have changed the minds of those involved in production, resulting in the flood being more localized.
- Franchise Killer: Crushed any ideas of continuing the "Almighty" film series after two movies.
- Genre-Killer: After the huge box-office success of both this film's predecessor and The Passion of the Christ, many predicted a resurgence in the market for major films with strongly faith-based messages. This film's underwhelming performance quickly put an end to any such hopes, with faith-based films going dormant for several years before eventually re-emerging as much lower-budget and lower-profile efforts made by the likes of Pureflix.
- The Other Darrin: Despite being dubbed in the same studio as the last movie, the Brazilian Portuguese dub has Alexandre Moreno dubbing Evan instead of Marco Antônio Costa, and Dário de Castro dubbing God instead of Márcio Simões. Simões still appears in the dub, this time voicing the Ark Reporter played by Ed Helms.
- What Could Have Been: Production did express interest in getting Jim Carrey back to make this a direct sequel; however, Carrey doesn't like reprising his roles. According to Steve Carell, Jim Carrey was interested in doing a cameo, and suggested a gag where Bruce sees news footage of Evan building the Ark. Bruce would then look upward (as if wondering if God has something to do with this), before dismissing it, and saying, "Naaah, couldn't be". The cameo ended up not happening, because studio execs felt that if Jim was going to be in the sequel in any capacity, then he should actually star in it instead of Carell. Carrey, not wanting Carell fired, backed off — a parallel to Bruce letting Evan keep his job as an anchorman back in Bruce Almighty.
- Working Title: It was originally going to be called The Passion Of The Ark before it became a Dolled-Up Installment and was rewritten as a spin-off of Bruce Almighty.
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