The film starts out by examining the task of playing Kaufman, and how Jim
Carrey got so immersed in the role he «disappeared from Earth» for two years and became Andy, allowing himself to only be referred to as Andy (or Tony Clifton) on set and nothing else.
Not exact matches
Actor Jim
Carrey gave a succinct and powerful explanation of this when he told an interviewer: «I think everybody should
get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.»
«He and I did not
get along at all, and
Carrey even said that Universal didn't want his backstage footage to surface because they didn't want everyone to think
Carrey was this «a — hole,» which is what he was during the making of that movie.»
While there are many, many compelling things about the film, I found myself gravitating toward a teeny - tiny subplot: when both Joel (Jim
Carrey) and Clementine (Kate Winslet) accidentally hear the tapes each recorded of the other in their attempts to erase each other from their memory, they
get a glimpse of what their former romantic partner was thinking of them at the time things went south.
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Today,
Carrey is one of America's top movie stars — and he credits his constant visualization with helping him
get there.
Tom Popper, the high - powered real estate developer
Carrey's playing,
gets a refrigerated box at the door of his Roche Bobois - furnished Manhattan penthouse.
Both Popper (Jim
Carrey, ideally cast) and his assistant, Pippi (Ophelia Lovibond), prefer to preface their pronouncements with the letter «p.» And they
get plenty of opportunity when he receives an unexpected package: six penguins, who immediately upend everything.
And Gordon's
got Jeffrey Combs in one of the great comedic performances (undoubtedly so, as Jim
Carrey aped Combs in most of his films to box office success) but he's also
got a very difficult role for David Gale.
I wish there had been even more going on here with
Carrey — maybe an outing to the zoo where he
gets to imitate every animal in captivity.
She shares nearly all her scenes with
Carrey and doesn't
get gobbled up by him.
Jim
Carrey does pull off some impressive physical slapstick, but it's all
got a been - there, done - that kinda vibe.
We've
got Sean Penn as Larry, Benicio Del Toro as Moe and Jim
Carrey as Curly.
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.
Carell
gets to wear some outrageous wigs, but he doesn't do nasty nastily enough, while Buscemi's role is under - written and
Carrey reprises his wacky guy role yet again (although he's funny doing it).
Steve Carell is an undeniably funny guy, but not in that «carry a bad film to success» way that
Carrey was able to do earlier in his career, When you realize that Carell
got more laughs in the miniscule amount of screen time he had in Bruce Almighty than he does in the 90 minutes he is in front of the camera for this sequel, that's really all you need to know in terms of this film's overall comedic quality.
«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.
Typical
Carrey comedy — it's
got a few funny moments, but more often than not it's just plain annoying.
CLIP 8 / «They're happy here» Though there are some funny scenes between
Carrey and Clark Gregg, who plays an overzealous zoologist, the penguin shenanigans
get old very quickly.
The promise of Mintz - Plasse's Red Mist turning supervillain, plus the addition of Jim
Carrey as a hero called «Colonel Stars» are reason enough to assume that we're in for a wild ride with this sequel, and we can't wait to see just how crazy things will
get.
Dumb and Dumber grosses us out mainly with toilet jokes, other jokes in bad taste, and grossly physical humor, such as Jim
Carrey's manic grimaces and Jeff Daniels's
getting his tongue stuck on a ski - lift pole while licking the frost.
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This drama has apparently been on the shelf for a few years, which isn't the best of signs, but looks like Jim
Carrey's deep, dark turn in this crime drama is finally
getting a US release date.
The last Globe drama actor champ not to
get an Oscar nomination was Jim
Carrey 17 years ago.
I had really hoped that this film would
get Carrey back on the right track in terms of film roles.
Of course, it was a long time
getting there and just one role in a long and highly diverse career that also includes a noted turn alongside Jim
Carrey in the Farrelly Brothers» 2000 «My, Myself, and Irene.»
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.
We talk about how he
got the role, what it's really like to work with Jim
Carrey and Jeff Daniels, hidden Easter eggs in the movie, how happy people were when they found out that he's still alive, and much more!
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.
Before
getting into the Marvel Universe, Peyton Reed was making mostly comedies including Bring It On, Down with Love, The Break - Up and Yes Man with Jim
Carrey.
Evan Baxter (Carell), the reporter who memorably spoke in gibberish after
Carrey's temporarily omnipotent protagonist
got to him, is leaving TV journalism (and Bruce's Catherine Bell, who makes a cameo) behind for a career as a congressman.
Get your first look at Jim
Carrey and Jeff Daniels as Lloyd and Harry in the sequel to the smash hit that took the physical comedy and kicked it in the nuts: Dumb and Dumber To.
Fans of
Carrey will, of course, flock in numbers to see this film, and if I were to guess based on how they generally received his early work, they will probably be the most forgiving of him if he makes a bad film, as long as they
get to see Jim be Jim.
All you have to do to
get your hands on this Jeff Daniels, Jim
Carrey, Peter Farrelly, and Bobby Farelly reunion is email us and give us some social media love.
Carrey does
get to run wild with a lot of this film, and rightfully so.
In Bruce Almighty, a down - on - his - luck TV reporter (
Carrey)
gets the ultimate promotion taking over for the Big Guy upstairs (Morgan Freeman) to see if he can do a better job.
Just think of all the people who
got their start on In Living Color: J - Lo, Jamie Foxx and Jim
Carrey, to name a few.
It's a shame that
Carrey will probably have to pull a Robin Williams and relent to doing some stuffy dramatic roll to finally
get noticed by voters.
The hardest thing for me to do for the entire film was to
get past how much this felt like it would have been a Jim
Carrey film.
Burt and Anton's tired shtick
gets exposed for its staleness as extreme magician Steve Gray (
Carrey) begins drawing larger crowds on street corners than the duo is able to muster in their performance hall.
You
get a better glimpse of that in «Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond,» a behind - the - scenes documentary about Jim
Carrey's literal transformation into Andy Kaufman during the filming of «Man on the Moon.»
What has as its foundation a complicated bit of metaphysics is CGI - enhanced, genre - slotted, and «atmosphered» into stultified incoherence («spooky red light» should
get a credit in the cast listing)-- and all the while
Carrey, as is his inclination, begins to overcompensate for a project that, we presume, he discovered he was a lot smarter than too late.
(2003) Total earnings: $ 484,592,874 Starring: Jim
Carrey, Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Aniston, Steve Carrell Plot: A down - on - his - luck journalist
gets more than he bargained for when he questions God.
It's
Got: Excellent performances from Kate Winslet and Kirsten Dunst, and a surprisingly restrained (and therefore tolerable) one from Jim
Carrey; visual effects that manage to be both low - key and gobsmacking at the same time; and a funny, twisted, bleak, sentimental screenplay that could only have been written by Charlie Kaufman.
Carrey doesn't
get much screen time to make an impression, but he's easily one of the film's standouts thanks to his surprisingly understated performance.
Whether or not you're a fan, you've
got to acknowledge that
Carrey is an old pro.
A feature audio commentary, proudly proclaimed «the geekiest commentary possible», is also supplied by director Waters, editor Green, and visual effects supervisor Hollander (you didn't think you'd
get Jim
Carrey here, did you?).
Getting the top - shelf guys like
Carrey or Damon Wayans most likely wouldn't fit under the budget, but Davidson's play - by - play commentary and incessant back - patting is both painful and pointless.