Sentences with phrase «carrey character»

No doubt everybody knows by now: how the Carrey character is living in an artificial town that is actually an enormous television studio.

The former shadow chancellor dressed up as the Jim Carrey character The Mask for his latest performance.

Not exact matches

However, things take a dark turn as Carrey's character deals with serious emotional issues off camera.

Carrey played the role of Kaufman in the movie, and continued the feud with Lawler, while he spent 80 straight days in character as Kaufman.

Breastfeeding isn't sexual, yet we still see instances of grown male characters either coveting nursing mothers» breasts or actively breastfeeding, like Jim Carrey's character in Me, Myself & Irene.

Jim Carrey did a brilliant job portraying the character Truman Burbank in 1998's The Truman Show, and Will's last name is Truman in the popular sitcom Will and Grace.

As a graduate student, David saw Yes Man, a 2008 film in which Carrey's character is forced to say yes to all propositions.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is difficult to watch as Carrey's character flails around in confusion and loss.

If he had received reconsolidation therapy, Carrey's character would not have forgotten Winslet's.

My favorite holiday character is probably Jim Carrey's Grinch!

So because Carrey won't play mean or even dull, there's no real room for the character to grow, and change.

It will be in that moment that you lose your status as Awesome Person Who Takes the Kids to the Movies and Buys Them Candy because it is then that you will have to explain to your child that, in real life, Jim Carrey's character would be considered a delusional pet hoarder endangering the lives of creatures that need special care and that the mean zookeeper is the good guy and not some kind of animal prison warden kidnapper.

Without divulging too many details, Carrey has a sudden, unexplained change of character at a crucial point in the story that undermines the rest of the picture and evaporates its emotional hold on the audience.

Happily, Jim Carrey is actually enjoyable to watch in Mr. Popper's Penguins as he goes through several character arcs.

It's mostly cute and funny — Carrey and Carell both bring a refreshing dimension to their characters without overdoing it.

It sounds predictable, and it is, for there's not a single surprise in the whole damn movie except for Carrey himself, who sells it pretty well even if this character is a bit like the ones from Liar, Liar and Yes Man.

Carrey's character is also far too nice and decent, lacking an inherent Scroogeness that would have made his journey that little bit more compelling and emotional.

Mr. Carrey is the kind of performer whose shtick reliably trumps psychological sense, and the film's blithe incoherence with respect to its main character is one of its virtues.

Jim Carrey rarely cuts loose and, when he does, he's merely imitating Steve Martin's great All of Me performance or his own In Living Color characters.

Zellweger is a good comedienne, but her character isn't written to be particularly funny, and it's hard for her to find any room to roam when Carrey is stealing every bit of the focus.

Silly supporting characters are tossed in to give Carrey more characters to play off of, including an albino that may or may not be a sociopath and Charlie's three sons, who are written to be jive - talking geniuses.

Carrey looks to be wearing a bit of prosthetics to get the character's look just right, and it should be fun to see him in action when the film hits theaters.

«Kick - Ass 2» added character posters for Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz - Plasse, Chloe Moretz, and Jim Carrey while James Wan's «The Conjuring» got its very first design, rocking an unsettling shot of a seemingly empty noose.

«Comedy is all about timing,» says Carrey's character in an early scene.

The strongest attribute of the first film was the character of Big Daddy, memorably played by Nicolas Cage channeling Adam West: having been set fire to in the last film, he's unlikely to return, though there's a juicy supporting role for Jim Carrey, of all people.

Carrey also often feuds with Man on the Moon director Milos Forman, who even has to call him «Andy» on set because this was his requirement while playing the character.

Penn's commitment to a wild and crazy comedy, in which he would have starred alongside Jim Carrey (as Curly) and Benicio Del Toro (as Moe), always seemed out of character, but excitingly so.

For all of the Farrelly shtick, it's Carrey that provides the right tone and timing for the film, with every other character seeming to fade into nothingness around him.

Carrey is surrounded with a solid lineup of supporting actors, but some of them play characters that are quite familiar.

Carrey's performance strikes new notes of bitterness both apt for a character who's grown surly in the way of people who don't progress for one reason or another, and «meta» - feeling, given that the actor's essentially landed back at square one after decades of struggling to branch out, though it's important to note that Carrey himself instigated the project and that, whatever frustrations he may have about typecasting, he attacks the role with gusto.

Jim Carrey made a career out of playing silly characters like Ace Ventura and The Mask, but the actor has demonstrated in the past that he has a lot more to him than just a funny bone.

According to one fansite the directors» «screwball comedy angle» was «starting to interfere with what the character of Han Solo is really about», and Alden Ehrenreich's portrayal of a young Han Solo was described in the report as being «oddly comparable to Jim Carrey's performance in Ace Ventura at times».

Yet Carrey is the movie's ace up its sleeve; as the heartless, audience - pandering performer, he so completely occupies his character's mystical, vicious persona that you want to applaud.

Carrey has built a career playing chaotic and ridiculous characters, so his playing a pensive, serious role feels a bit absurd.

«No one inhabits a character like Jim Carrey, and this role — which is like watching Humpty Dumpty after the fall — is going to leave television audiences wondering how they went so long without him,» said David Nevins, President and CEO of Showtime Networks.

Chris Smith's documentary delves deep into the philosophical implications of Jim Carrey's erasure of the boundary between self and character, exploring what it really means to be «the dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.»

At the film's recent press day, Carrey and Daniels talked about reprising their roles in the sequel, how it was driven by fan demand, what it was like getting back into character and finding their chemistry again, the love between the characters, which one is Dumb and which one is Dumber, how the characters hold a special place in their lives as they do for the fans, the return of the Mutt Cutts van and other callbacks from the original film, working with Kathleen Turner, their favorite scene, and where they see their characters in another 20 years.

Q: I'm curious about the idea of Jim Carrey's character pretending to be in a coma for 20 years.

The writer - director's adaptation also merges some characters — Â Colonel Stars and Lieutenant Stripes unite in the form of Jim Carrey's star - spangled - bat - wielding Colonel Stars, for example — Â and gets rid of others, streamlining the story fans already know from the paneled page into a much more palatable package.

Featuring Chloe Grace Moretz and Jim Carrey, the two character one - sheets show the Justice Forever members at their most intimidating.

Jim Carrey lends his voice to a character intent on saving an entire world in Horton Hears a Who.

One is a street magician played by Jim Carrey, whose character's idea of magic is to engage in various masochistic activities, from hammering a nail into a table with his forehead to scalding his arm over birthday candles so that the blisters spell out «Happy birthday» to drilling a hole in his skull with a power tool.

He's tired and cynical and full of vinegar (Carrey's character is, in one bit, full of the substance that usually precedes that liquid and follows «full of»).

It's painful to think how much Jim Carrey could have done with the central character.

In essence, the makers of this film don't concern themselves so much with the characters or plot, except to provide ample time for its superstar, Jim Carrey, to chew up as much scenery as possible.

There's little doubt that Kick - Ass 2 fares relatively well in its opening stretch, as writer / director Jeff Wadlow does an effective job of catching up with the various characters from 2010's Kick - Ass and, as well, introducing scores of new (and admittedly) intriguing figures - including Donald Faison's Dr. Gravity, John Leguizamo's Javier, and Jim Carrey's Colonel Stars and Stripes.

Plus, Jim Carrey sat down for a nearly 30 - minute conversation about comedy, characters and existence at the Toronto International Film Festival, and Adult Swim released the full version of the «Fathers and Daughters» song from this past weekend's Rick and Morty.

Reynolds (who's been vocal about his desire to reprise the Deadpool character after the missed opportunity that was X-Men Origins: Wolverine) doesn't shut his yap for virtually the entire movie, a difficult task for even the most seasoned onscreen comedians (Jim Carrey and the late Robin Williams took on many a gabby, cartoonish role in their respective careers, and even they had their fair share of missteps).

Carrey ironically brings a little bit of his Liar, Liar character into this light - hearted take on Steven.

More impressive is Carrey's ability to work through the knotty, tortured complications of his character, providing the necessary gravity and even a hint of plausibility.