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Max Braden: With Get Smart and adding in The Office, he's found success with pretty much the same character - ambitious lovable loser meets suburban dad, maybe a cross between Cliff Clavin and Steve Martin's characters. His style is more approachable than the noisy wind up toys that are Jim Carrey, Will Ferrell, and Jack Black. If he can repeat it and sell it to millions, he stands to be as successful as McDonald's.

Matthew Huntley: I'd label Steve Carell a moderate box office draw who happens to get lucky most of the time. People genuinely like Carell because of his everyday and humble qualities, but I don't think they're seeing his movies because he's in them. However, while it may be the franchises and appealing concepts that initially draw people into his movies, I think Carell is the reason they leave happy. He's becoming a familiar, reliable face, which is more than most actors could hope for, but I don't think he's the next Jim Carrey...not yet, anyway.

Reagen Sulewski: If anything, I think Carell is a little underrated. He's a funny man who can actually act, and provides depth that's missing in a lot of other broad comedic performances (Mike Myers is wondering what that buzzing noise is right now). So he's able to do the shtick, but he's not just doing shtick, and I think that goes a long way.

Scott Lumley: He's Jim Carrey without all the pretensions. Carell seems to have a real solid grip on who he is and what he does and I've seen very very few detours on his resume off into 'Egoland'. He's been happily married for quite some time and believe it or not, having a wife to tell you 'get a grip' can save you from quite a few disasters. I really do think we've yet to see the best of Carell. I'm fairly certain that someone's going to come along with the right script and the right director and Steve will literally kill people. They'll laugh themselves to death. He'll have the first film in history with a mega gross and a body count.

Daron Aldridge: Obviously, Steve Carell has a great agent and gets him to consider the right scripts and projects. As a huge fan, it pains me to say that it just seems to be fortuitous choices and not a testament to his drawing power for all those $100 million earners. I don't think that the success of Horton, Over the Hedge, and Bruce Almighty can really be attributed to him. That would be like also giving Jennifer Aniston credit for Bruce's tally. But that being said, Carell was the sole draw of Dan in Real Life and it also quietly made nearly $50 million against a $25 million budget. People seemed to want to see him even in low-key, average looking films.

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