Though, even with the shackles of veracity,
Carrey makes a last - minute save to his case with a new discovery and a reminder about the difference between void and voidable agreements.
Once
Carrey makes the «yes» commitment, the film turns into a gag machine as he improves his life by opening up to Korean lessons, time spent with his friends, random acts of kindness, and oral sex with a toothless octogenarian.
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.
Carrey made sure of that, strategically re-teaming with Tom Shadyac, his director on the hits Liar Liar and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.
Unless you find Jim
Carrey making faces to be a laugh riot in itself, Fun with Dick and Jane is an initially promising film that only disappoints and frustrates by titillating us with the hint of intelligent thematic twists, then proceeding to inject as much slapstick as it can to go for the cheap laughs.
Hmmm Ewen McGregor and Jim
Carrey making out???? If you want to see that, then you better go see I Love You Phillip Morris!
Not exact matches
Whether you write yourself a check like Jim
Carrey did or put your biggest goal and dream on a note card like I did, just
make sure to utilize the power of a trigger card.
The Popemobile is a huge joke.I remember when Drew
Carrey was doing stand up comedy, and he
made a joke about the Pope way back then.
«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.»
If they start griping about having to clean the toilet, just remind them that Jim
Carrey once worked as a janitor before he
made it big.
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Carrey takes aim at Kent State grad who posed with AR - 10 MORE for saying she did not hear him say the United States should not accept immigrants from «shithole countries.»
The Mr. Popper (Jim
Carrey) in this case is a slick New York property purchaser who buys up iconic buildings around the city and demolishes them to
make way for something bigger and better.
They quite enjoy watching Charlie Chaplin movies, which sort of
makes up for the scene where
Carrey dances with them to the tune of «Ice Ice Baby.»
Also there are many scenes that were obviously improvised through the fading comic «genius» of Jim
Carrey, I can't imagine what director Mark Waters went through when Jimbo
made his suggestions.
Audiences go to a Jim
Carrey movie to watch the spastic comedian
make funny faces and react to outrageous situations with his trademark rubber band physicality.
The Parts Of This Film That Don't Feel Like They're
Made Entirely Of Poop: A rollicking penguins - sliding - on - their - bellies moment that takes place on the spiraling floor of the Guggenheim Museum and the presence of British actress Ophelia Lovibond as Jim
Carrey's peculiar personal assistant with a particular penchant for pronouncing words that begin with the letter «P.»
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.
It's the beaming movie - star intensity of the complicated comic
Carrey in the role of the dominant lover and Obi - Wan Kenobi McGregor as the gentle beloved that
makes this unfettered, stranger - than - fiction picture pop.
Tom Popper (
Carrey) is a top realtor (that's American for property agent, English people), the golden boy of his company and on the verge of
making partner.
I admire
Carrey for taking on a grim and sobering project
made in Krakow, Poland, that requires a range he would never be asked to show in any American sitcom, but Dark Crimes is so lurid, irrelevant and unwatchable it
makes you wonder if he ever read the script.
Carrey, returning to the crazed physical comedy with which he
made his name, plays Charlie, a repressed Rhode Island Highway Patrol officer badly in need of some therapy.
I wasn't a big fan of Bruce Almighty, so I went into Evan Almighty with strong reservations, wondering if they stood a chance to
make the premise work without the talents of Jim
Carrey.
Avranas attempts to
make use of casting Jim
Carrey against type by allowing nearly all of the morbid comic relief to be generated by a lewd and lascivious Marton Csokas, here in prime over-the-top form as a bitchy, pretentious pulp author who churns out perverse novels which would be loosely defined as torture porn.
Just a couple of weeks ago it was looking unlikely that Jim
Carrey, sought to play Colonel Stars, a member of a Justice League - like band of real - life superheroes in «Kick - Ass 2: Balls to the Walls,» would actually
make an appearance in the high - profile sequel.
Still, whatever desperation there was for
Carrey to return to co-starring with animals («Ace Ventura»
made him a star), he gamely gives his all, imitating Charlie Chaplin's walk (the penguins LOVE old Chaplin cartoons), impersonating Jimmy Stewart and taking a shot at launching another Ventura - like catch - phrase — «Yabsolutely!»
There's an enormous amount of utterly captivating footage, as
Carrey actually had a cameraman following him around during the
making of the movie.
Carrey fans will enjoy this lighthearted film, and it might even
make you want to learn Korean or, at the very least, loan a homeless guy your phone.
Lots of critics said
Carrey was the best part, or above the material, though plenty of others said he was no fun (probably because he wasn't
making his butt talk like he used to).
See the SNL audition tapes of Bill Murray, Will Forte, Amy Poehler, and more, including some that didn't
make it onto the show like Jim
Carrey and Zach Galifianakis.
Whilst heavily reliant on the broad appeal of its star Jim
Carrey, the film adaptation of Richard and Florence Atwater's 1938 classic Mr Popper's Penguins combines both children and cuddly aquatic creatures for a feel - good family frenzy tailor -
made to entertain parents and their vacationing progeny.
Someone out there must have seen a void in the ridiculously dumb comedy genre now that Jim
Carrey has progressed in his career to the point where he wouldn't
make another Ace Ventura movie.
Jim
Carrey's star
making vehicle is a modern day classic and rightfully so.
While somewhat star -
making for Cage and also featuring some of the earliest film appearances of Jim
Carrey, Joan Allen, Helen Hunt, and «7th Heaven» mom Catherine Hicks, the movie belongs first and foremost to Kathleen Turner.
PLOT: A car accident
makes Steven Russell (
Carrey) examine his life.
How was it like working with Keanu Reeves and Jim
Carrey, and at least in
Carrey's case
making him so unrecognizable?
Who: Steve Carell, Jim
Carrey, Steve Buscemi, Olivia Wilde and James Gandolfini What: After magician Burt Wonderstone splits from his longtime stage partner, he sets out to rediscover what
made him love magic in the first place.
Stiller
made his directorial debut with Reality Bites, a sweet romantic comedy that had the misfortune of being marketed as the defining film of Generation X. Stiller's next film as a director, The Cable Guy, was an ambitious black comedy that was overshadowed by the hype surrounding Jim
Carrey's then - unprecedented $ 20 million payday and dark role.
Jim
Carrey is
making a return to television in his first series - regular role in more than two decades.
Steve Carell, Jim
Carrey, and Olivia Wilde were in attendance to try to
make the audience excited, which both Carell and
Carrey failed to accomplish.
Sight gags and verbal quips all hit their marks, helped by Carrell's dorky deadpan, Buscemi enjoys the chance to display his natural comic timing, while
Carrey steals scenes with some of his best stuff in recent memory — being able to
make a David Blaine spoof funny 10 years out of date is no mean feat.
And finally, I caught up with Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond on Netflix, a documentary combining an interview with Jim
Carrey along with previously unseen footage of the
making of the 1999 Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon.
Collector's Edition DVD Review: The first disc in the Collector's Edition DVD set features everything from the original release: a
making - of featurette, deleted scenes, a Polyphonic Spree music video, a fictional Lacuna infomercial, a conversation with Jim
Carrey and director Michel Gondry, and an audio commentary with Gondry and writer Charlie Kaufman.
Despite the efforts of Jim
Carrey and Jeff Daniels, the sequel arrives at least 15 years too late, and its laughs aren't enough to
make the wait worth it.
Additionally, killer portrayals of Riddler and Two - Face from Jim
Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones, respectively,
make for a film that's equally fun to watch when the protagonists are on the screen and when it's just the bad guys» time to shine.
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.
Made at the height of the comedic giant's fame, «The Mask» sees
Carrey's Stanley Ipkiss come into the possession of a magical mask that transforms him into the embodiment of a Tex Avery cartoon.
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.
Jim
Carrey takes on a comparatively brief side role, still using his basic shtick of
making statements with suspenseful, breathtaking pauses, Olivia Wilde does fine as the team's not - so - loyal assistant, but Steve Carell is at the top of his form in what is perhaps his most flamboyant role, one that offers stark contrast to his performance as a marriage counselor in David Frankel's «Hope Springs» and, of course, his dryly humorous role in TVs «The Office.»
Bruce Almighty is an attempt by Jim
Carrey (The Majestic, Me Myself & Irene) to marry the comedies that
made him a star with the more high - concept films he has
made since becoming a more serious actor.
There are still many moves and subplots that are avoided here just so Carell and
Carrey can
make another dumb joke or fall over.