A large part of the premise seems to be that Steve Carell is told to build an ark, and everyone thinks he’s crazy. But as we can clearly see from the trailer, fairly early on in the story, pairs of weirdly anthropomorphic animals start following him around everywhere he goes. I have never seen a single hippopotamus follow a man, let alone two, let alone two followed by pairs of every other kind of animal on earth, including breakdancing chimpanzees. On top of that, he seems to have developed a superhuman ability to grow a beard instantaneously. What logical explanation could the filmmakers possibly come up with to explain why people would not be swayed by this evidence?