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The
people who made this movie don't know dick about
comedy.
It doesn't get more ridiculous and insipid than
this. If we haven't had enough of Jim Carrey's
mugging in stinkers like "Bruce
Almighty" and his other comic misfires,
this one certainly takes the comedians inane
shenanigans and allows them to plow right through
this steaming pile of donkey shit giving us
little more than his smuggy mug to latch onto.
It's as if the powers that be at Sony hired
Carrey, producer/writer Judd Apatow and director
Dean Parisot, gave them a hundred million dollars,
a camera, a set and a copy of the original 1977
movie and said, "Here. Take a look at this and
see what you can come up with." Then, after
a month of boozing, snorting coke and fucking
whores, the trio thought, SHIT, WE BETTER DO
SOMETHING.
This is the most inane and lackadaisical film
of 2005. Nobody gives a fuck here. Carrey does
his goofy schtick for 90 minutes and seems rightly
embarrassed for it. Tea Leoni, who replaced
the effervescent Cameron Diaz at the last minute
(who obviously did her coke and then smartly
left), is about as lackluster of an actress
as one would expect in this trite, ridiculous,
innocuous crapfest.
I'm not saying the original was a great film.
The 1977 version with George Segal and Jane
Fonda was pretty silly too. But silly and inane
are yards apart and Carrey, Apatow, Parisot
and everyone else who was in this piece of runny
cinematic diarrhea would be wise to invest their
money in something other than Sony stock. If
the general public had one iota of common sense,
these guys would be roasting on a spit under
the Hollywood sign right now. Luckily for the
greedy bastards who had anything to do with
this film, the public seems to be as idiotic
as they are. (With, of course, the exception
of you dear reader.) This is the kind of film
that gives donkey shit a bad name.
Notes:
Also with Alec Baldwin (who tries to skewer
George W. Bush here and fails), Angie Harmon,
Stephanie Weir and Jason Marsden.
Carrey and Brian Grazer are producers.
Barry Sonnenfeld was set to direct but left
citing personal reasons.
Paramount paid Sony $100,000 to interrupt filming
for one week so Carrey could do promotional
appearances for "Lemony
Snicket."
Viewed
in Austin in December of 2005.
Report Card
Script:
F
Acting:
F
Cinematography\Lighting:
F
Special
Effects\Make Up: D
Music:
D
Final
Grade: F
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