As the setting for the Jim
Carrey movie «The Truman Show,» this tranquil Gulf Coast location in Northwest Florida might already seem familiar.
However, I think that audiences expecting a typical manic Jim
Carrey movie like Liar Liar or The Mask would probably be disappointed.
Enter another Jim
Carrey movie - you know what to expect, lots of facial expressions, gesticulating and downright stupidness.
A Jim
Carrey movie is always worth seeing, even if it doesn't re-create the guileless shock and scintillation of «Dumb and Dumber.»
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.
Perhaps someone needed to tell him: This is not a Jim
Carrey Movie.
i loved the books when i was younger and even liked the jim
carrey movie (and i very much dislike jim carrey lol) so i totally watched season 1 and i'm absolutely going to watch season 2!
A Jim
Carrey movie inspired computational biologist Lawrence David to change the course of his research.
Not exact matches
In fact, Jim
Carrey did a
movie a while back on this very premise.
It's like a real - life version of the
movie Liar Liar with Jim
Carrey, but at the same time it was very liberating in some ways.
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.
«There is a lot of interaction between
Carrey and me when we were filming the
movie,» said Lawler.
«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.»
So whether you're in the mood for Jim
Carrey's take on «Dr. Seuss» How The Grinch Stole Christmas,» watching Buddy eat spaghetti covered with maple syrup in «Elf» or more classically beloved flicks, chances are, you can find a
movie that fits.
The summer
movie season's first live - action family comedy event stars Jim
Carrey, whose chilly relationship with his family heats up after he inherits six adorable, lovable and mischievous penguins.
Today,
Carrey is one of America's top
movie stars — and he credits his constant visualization with helping him get there.
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.
The parallel stories allow the
movie to cut back and forth between the antics of Horton and the mayor (or more precisely,
Carrey and Carell), as each one - lines his way toward a predictable end (Whoville is saved).
Old - timers — those with vivid memories of Mr.
Carrey's «Ace Ventura»
movies — will notice, with a sigh, that his rubbery limbs have lost a bit of stretch and his highly mobile face has acquired some lines.
The
movie stars Jim
Carrey, who is in his pleasant mode.
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.
The nicest thing about the
movie is that it incorporates fleeting footage from several Charlie Chaplin comedies, as
Carrey discovers that the penguins are mesmerized by his waddling Little Tramp figure on his television screen.
With his role,
Carrey successfully sells himself in a children's
movie without simultaneously scaring the crap out the target audience like he did in A Christmas Carol.
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.»
It's not long before the
movie's vigorous efforts to channel Charlie Kaufman and Andrew Niccol, not to mention Ferrell's efforts to follow in Jim
Carrey's footsteps, leave Stranger Than Fiction looking rather familiar, not strange at all.
Here when
Carrey elongates his already gaunt face, wears a wool overcoat and slicks back his hair (you know he's snapped when the gel holding it in place wears off), he looks well on his way to being able to play a youngish Montgomery Burns in a live - action «Simpsons»
movie.
But it's when the devilish old
Carrey materializes that the
movie — which Mark Waters directed and is credited to three screenwriters — dares to be more than a greeting card.
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.
Carrey's two personalities fight each other during a road trip with a female prisoner - who is on the run from some typical
movie bad guys.
While she was on the show from 1987 to 1995, Loughlin also starred in several TV
movies, including the critically praised drama Doing Time on Maple Drive (1992) with a pre-Ace Ventura Jim
Carrey.
Rumors of
Carrey going over the edge while playing Andy Kaufman in the latter may explain why he needed a simple
movie like Me, Myself & Irene to unwind.
Soon after his breakout in «Bottle Rocket,» Wilson had a small role in Stiller's second
movie as director, the dark Jim
Carrey comedy «The Cable Guy,» then paired with him on addiction drama «Permanent Midnight,» but the film that really launched them as co-stars was Stiller's absurdist comedy «Zoolander,» with the actors playing moronic male models.
But hey, it looks like enough strings were pulled, favors promised, and back - end points awarded, because
Carrey is indeed set to co-star in the follow - up to the jazzy deconstructionist comic book
movie.
Carrey has flirted with superhero
movies before (his Riddler was arguably the saving grace of «Batman Forever») and is reportedly a big fan of the first «Kick - Ass»
movie.
There's an enormous amount of utterly captivating footage, as
Carrey actually had a cameraman following him around during the making of the
movie.
Being a Jim
Carrey film, there are some funny moments in the
movie, but the story really focuses on a man who is living a lie and slowly beginning to realize that.
The two elaborate on the project's development, the title and why it was changed, the hugely important role music played, «the
movie you write, the
movie you shoot, and the
movie you edit,» the cast, the dark places of both men that inspired the film, what Jim
Carrey contributed, and how Luke Wilson's process was a gift to Pellington.
The likes of Jim
Carrey, Benicio Del Toro and Sean Penn were all linked to the Farrellys»
movie at one time or another, but the project arrives with a decidedly less starry (though perhaps just as effective) cast.
«Dark Crimes» has
Carrey, who seems like he's auditioning for an HBO procedural, but the rest of the
movie is motionless when it isn't baffling.
His stardom, however, is harder to classify than Will Ferrell's or Adam Sandler's or Jim
Carrey's: they're comic brand names who carry their
movies on the force of their trademark personas.
Yes, this
movie is just as silly as it looks, with Jim
Carrey pratfalling all over the screen alongside a bunch of adorable (sometimes animated) critters.
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While Fall Out Boy are hoping to create their own memorable
Movie Awards moment, Wentz admitted his favorite from the show is Jim
Carrey's hippie disguise from the 1999 ceremony as he accepted his award for The Truman Show.
«Wonderstone» will be
Carrey's first film work since the 2011
movie «Mr. Popper's Penguins.»
Carrey has done excellent dramatic roles before, especially in
movies like «Man on the Moon,» «The Truman Show» and the highly underrated «The Majestic.»
Jim
Carrey becomes a good actor looking for a better
movie.
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.
That someone is Dave Sheridan, most recognizable as Deputy Doofy in Scary
Movie, whose uncanny resemblance to Jim
Carrey in Frank McKlusky C.I. had me doing double - takes at times.
The interrogation scenes between Csokas and
Carrey are the only moments with actual tension in the
movie.
Danny Wallace is a British writer and comedian whose memoir «Yes Man» was adapted into a
movie starring Jim
Carrey.