Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)

Who’s in it

Jim Carrey, Tea Leoni, Alec Baldwin, Richard Jenkins, Angie Harmon

What was good

The movie was hilarious, and the first to have a situational comedy about the big dot com’s and what happened to people when they went bust. In this case, it is fictional Globaldyne, and Jim Carrey one day after being promoted to VP of Communications is thrown into a nosedive that ends up with him losing everything.

What sucked

Not too much. Jim Carrey does a nice balanced mix of being a normal person, and being a funny man. He gets more off the wall as his circumstances appear more dubious. But if you don’t like Carrey, you obviously would stay away from this. But other than Liar Liar, this is the most I have ever heard Sarah laugh at a Jim Carrey movie, so that is a sign.

Who should go see this

People who love Carrey, and Leoni is equally funny. She doesn’t hesitate when they start to steal money, and is the perfect compliment to making Carrey work, from the robbing costumes, to the outlandish stuff they both do to make money, etc etc. Everyone should see this, it is funny, short and to the point, and a movie you could watch a bunch of times.

Here are some similar arcade posts

• Liar Liar (1997)
• Bruce Almighty (2003)
• Spanglish (2004)
• Pride and Prejudice (2005)
• Zoolander (2001)

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