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- 2005
- PG-13
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
- 2005
- PG-13
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
Summary A simple tale of two people who lose their minds while trying to hold on to the elusive American dream. (Sony Pictures)
Directed By: Dean Parisot
- 2005
- PG-13
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
- 2005
- PG-13
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
Fun with Dick and Jane
47
5.8
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Summary A simple tale of two people who lose their minds while trying to hold on to the elusive American dream. (Sony Pictures)
Directed By: Dean Parisot
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
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24% Positive
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8 Reviews
58% Mixed
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
18% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
47
24% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
58% Mixed
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
18% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
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.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 94 User Ratings
5.8
38% Positive
36 Ratings
36 Ratings
45% Mixed
42 Ratings
42 Ratings
17% Negative
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 94 User Ratings
5.8
38% Positive
36 Ratings
36 Ratings
45% Mixed
42 Ratings
42 Ratings
17% Negative
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
A greatest and hilarious movie. More funny and critic, and have a good interpretacion of **** for Jim Carrey. It´s very worth it.
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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.
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.
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While certainly worlds away from Jim Carrey's best work, Fun with **** and Jane provides plenty of laughs and satisfactory poke in a world where embezzlement and fraud within large corporations is very much in control.
Carrey plays **** Harper, a man who has worked his whole life to achieve what he feels he deserves, the VP of Communications at the firm he works at, Globodyne. What he is unaware of, which eventually he finds out live on air, is that the company's stock is plummeting after CEO Jack McCallister mysteriously buys out 80% of his stock, thus surging the company into bankruptcy.
As **** and his wife Jane (Tia Leoni) contemplate life without all of their luxuries, which eventually winds down to life even without the basics, they must come up with a way to get out of their predicament, which of course involves the other side of the law.
The film starts off in style, with Carrey's pristine comic timing setting up a wild ride of hilarious missteps for the hapless couple, but there are too many gaping plot holes that prevent this film from being so much better than it ended up being.
The scenes involving our two leads turning to crime are quite funny, and also when hundreds of employees apply for the same job sets up quite a hilarious surge to the top floor. But the dramatic downturns of the Harpers fortune definitely brings down the intended tone of the film, with one mishap after another, the film seems to open up avenues but doesn't explore them to their potential, instead shortening the film to give Carrey room to play, while Leoni tags along, seemingly undeterred by how quickly her marital life has spiralled out of control.
On the case of the cast, Carrey is on fine form as **** Harper, is bursting energy which is now his signature is in full force here, but his screen time is shared mostly with Leoni who also puts in a good performance, again, the problem here being that there isn't much in the way of chemistry outside of these two, again something not fully explored.
Alec Baldwin also stars as greedy Globodyne CEO McCallister, his limited screen time is unfortunate as he is played out as quite an interesting character, buy one who ultimately isn't done much justice.
Its got its flaws, but for an easy sit down of enjoyable quips and far-fetched situations, this is a movie that might be worth a look.
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Awards
The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
• 5 Nominations
BMI Film & TV Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Kids' Choice Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
