The film tells about some imaginary and comedy situations through the appearance of God to a man who works as assistant manager Gerry and shows him God in the form of a good old man and following the events of the imagination when hearing the ringing of the public phone meet Gerry with God again.
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.
Burns is everything we could hope for in a benevolent God--a kindly, reassuring voice; a sympathetic smile; a modest, unassuming manner; everyone's favorite uncle.
Burns is the Lord, Denver is a store clerk. Yet it all works, thank God.
New York Times
May 09, 2005
An uneasy amalgam or inconsistent attitudes, without enough humor or zaniness to divert attention from its questionable premise.
Flipside Movie Emporium
October 03, 2002
Somewhere deep down, I think we all hope that God turns out to be like George Burns.
TV Guide
March 19, 2008
Reiner does one of his best directing jobs and never resorts to some of the silliness he's demonstrated in other films. Denver is very affable and could have had a good movie career given the right material.
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.