Popper's family is used as a prop
so Carrey can be with the penguins and have his hard heart melted while taking care of them.
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.»
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.
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!
So because
Carrey won't play mean or even dull, there's no real room for the character to grow, and change.
But
Carrey, like
so many comic actors, is still a comedian first, and one with an unquenchable thirst for attention.
Through twists unnecessary to describe, he hooks up with the perky, pretty Irene (Renee Zellweger), and they become fugitives from the law, pursued by the evil Lt. Gerke (Chris Cooper) for reasons that have something to do with environmental scandals, country clubs, bribery and cover - ups; the plot is
so murky we abandon curiosity and simply accept that
Carrey and Zellweger are on the run, and the bad guys are chasing them.
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 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.
It helps that, after his being
so «serious» for a while, that
Carrey has thrown himself into a role perfectly suited to the rubber - faced and rubber - bodied actor.
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.
From «The Truman Show» to «Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind» and
so many more,
Carrey has proven himself a bona fide master of physical and emotional storytelling.
In a way, it is nice to see
Carrey and Daniels take on these roles again as it's like catching up with old friends, but nostalgia can only carry it
so far.
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.
I have even more respect for
Carrey now and wish I could sit and talk with him about life for hours, as he has
so much to teach us.
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.
So, how is «Dark Crimes», in which a brooding and bearded Jim
Carrey marble - mouths a Polish accent throughout?
I really wish this was «Tyler Perry's Dark Crimes», just
so that Jim
Carrey would have to play a guy named «Detective Dirk Crimes».
The draw of «Dark Crimes» may be
Carrey in an uncharacteristic role, but then again we've seen him veer away from the comedy antics he's known for in the past,
so this isn't anything all that new.
So boasts a pair of titles at the start of I Love You Phillip Morris, the true story of straight cop - turned - gay grifter Steven Russell (Jim
Carrey), who funds his newly flamboyant lifestyle with a series of small cons and fraudulent law suits.
Jim
Carrey's star making vehicle is a modern day classic and rightfully
so.
So, for nearly two hours,
Carrey and Daniels (both showing their ages) toss - out hundreds of awful, offensive, gross and just plain dumb jokes, in their ridiculous «D&D» voices.
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.
How was it like working with Keanu Reeves and Jim
Carrey, and at least in
Carrey's case making him
so unrecognizable?
I'd like to think
so, even though the film's producers would probably like to sell it as a Jim
Carrey comedy.
The success of
Carrey's role depends on him playing the
so - called «straight - faced man» - the only one who's sane while everything around him is strange or unusual.
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.
JIM & ANDY: THE GREAT BEYOND There is
so much more going on here than the behind - the - scenes footage of Jim
Carrey's extreme method performance as Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon.
Carrey doesn't seem to mind, since he has
so many other opportunities to earn laughs, and for the most part, he does just that.
So they try and come up with something fresh to top their streetwise rival, Steve Gray (
Carrey)-- and in the process, split up.
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.»
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.
There are still many moves and subplots that are avoided here just
so Carell and
Carrey can make another dumb joke or fall over.
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.
From Jim
Carrey to Liam Neeson, Tina Fey and tag along Amy Poehler, John C. Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kirsten Dunst (although I'll admit to not noticing her in this unholy cameo lineup of cameo lineups), Marion Cotillard, Will Smith, and even Kayne West, there's
so much going on that you're helpless but to laugh.
If only Jim
Carrey's uninhibited and completely unhinged, sweet - and - sour insanity was by itself enough to carry a movie, it might not matter
so much that the plot of the Farrelly Brothers» «Me, Myself and Irene» is nothing but an undercooked on - the - run road movie.
Carrey does get to run wild with a lot of this film, and rightfully
so.
The world may have moved on since «dumb happened,» but Harry and Lloyd remain wonderfully oblivious, and Jeff Daniels and Jim
Carrey — 59 and 52, respectively — have somehow managed to rekindle the infantile chemistry that made these fools
so beloved.
Originally, Benicio Del Toro, Sean Penn and Jim
Carrey had their eyes on the leading roles,
so going with Knoxville means a major change in tone for the piece.
Thankfully Jim
Carrey, Alan Arkin, and Olivia Wilde provide a laugh or two each,
so all things considered, I'm still looking forward to seeing The Incredible Burt Wonderstone when it hits theaters in March.
Even before they open their mouths to deliver a line of the Farrelly Brothers» flabby comedy dialogue, we're already sad to see Jeff Daniels and - less
so - Jim
Carrey back in those silly haircuts, mugging away for cash.
Jim
Carrey as a Criss Angel - type performer is funny in and of itself — especially when performing a riff on the Joker's disappearing pencil trick —
so I look forward to seeing more of him in the film.
Plot: Man (Matthew Broderick) is cruelly dumped by his mean girlfriend (Mann),
so turns to his weird cable man (Jim
Carrey) for friendship.
Ultimately, though,
Carrey is just a victim of the clumsy script; he works
so hard to sell its tepid jokes that you can never quite buy him as someone as smooth and cagey as Russell must have been.
So it's not really a surprise that
Carrey has now penned a children's book... [Read more...]
In the end though, I'm going to keep on thinking of Ellie as Ellen Page just because I'm Can (eh) dian, and
so is she, and even though that's where my knowledge of her as a person starts and stops, I'd rather go on believing that a Canadian will be among The Last of Us, when mankind's downfall begins it's spiral into aftermath, and Ellen Page in a post Apocalyptic situation (Canadian wise) is more believable than say Jim
Carrey, Brian Addams, Justin Beiber, Celine Dion Alanis Moressett or heck, even Billy Shatner.
It
so happens that the same Jim
Carrey was made to take down some of his wall art done on the front of his studio in (big city) New York because it offended some bylaw or other — don't know which or what value it was supporting.