Fun with Dick and Jane

Writers Nicholas Stoller and Judd Apatow remake is more devilish, hitting its targets with the reckless glee required for a round of Whac-A-Mole.

Fun With Dick and Jane has lived up to its title: It's fun, and that's fine.

Mr. Carrey is such an attention hog that most actresses have a hard time holding on to their corner of the screen when he's onboard, especially in broader comedies. But Ms. Leoni never cedes her ground. Both performers exude such acute neediness - there's a touch of Jerry Lewis and Lucille Ball in their mutual frenzy - that not to love them even a little would seem cruel.

It's the angriest comedy I've encountered all year, though it's pretty well spoiled by Carrey, who insists on turning it into a star vehicle with his slapstick and spazz attacks.

A sharply comic critique of corporate greed might have added to the national dialogue, but this is a series of hit-&-miss sketches.

None of this is funny enough to justify stealing 90 minutes of your viewing time.

The material has been dumbed down for contemporary tastes and Carrey's frantic comic style.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

The stagnant machinery of a white-collar bankruptcy: A 3.0-star "vivid" but frantic drift through corporate ruin.2011(3.0)I watched "Fun with **** and Jane" in 2011, and it remains a functional 3.0-star record in my archive—a "vivid" but ultimately "stagnant" exploration of middle-class desperation. This experience **** the fourth wall of the "raw" corporate satire by infusing Jim Carrey’s rhythmic physical comedy with a high-tension energy that felt 100% "pathetic" and frantic at the time. While the production attempted a "sensational" and rebellious take on the Enron-era fallout, the narrative rhythm felt too mechanical and "stagnant," dragging through a "pathetic" cycle of petty crimes that lacked the "chewy" intellectual depth of my 5.0-star pillars. Seeing the "vivid" but "pathetic" collapse of their domestic dream provided a rhythmic sense of irony, but the emotional payoff felt too "stagnant" and superficial, leaving me in a state of "silent frustration" at its simplistic resolution. The 95% preservation of my memory is dominated by the rhythmic, "raw" desperation of the job-hunting sequences and the "vivid" but "stagnant" absurdity of their backyard landscaping, creating a journey that felt more like a "pathetic" distraction than a permanent, "sensational" scar on my soul. Unlike the "vivid" soul of "The Invention of Lying" or the "raw" tension of "Man of Steel," this encounter possessed a rhythm that was far too "stagnant" to escape its comedic cliches. It stands in my 2011 record as a "vivid" exercise in social satire—a 3.0-star artifact of rhythmic unevenness that remained too "stagnant" to reach the "sensational" heights of my most cherished psychological archives.

Interesting movie. It's a shame that there's lives got ruined. This what they resorted to. Different type of roll to see Jim Carey in.

Usually i'm a great Jim Carrey fan! I've watched tons of his movies. Now **** is a character, that won't show you the true talent of this comedian genius.

Another Jim carey movie that falls flat on its face. No memorable lines funny or not. Another movie that calls itself a comedy when it should be called a failure.