Average Rating: 4.9/10
Reviews Counted: 132
Fresh: 38 | Rotten: 94
This muddled comedy has a few laughs, but never sustains a consistent tone.
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 22
This muddled comedy has a few laughs, but never sustains a consistent tone.
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A not-so-ordinary family finds a new way of paying the bills in this comedy. Dick Harper (Jim Carrey) and his wife, Jane (Téa Leoni), would seem to have it made -- Dick has a high-paying job, they live in an expensive house in the suburbs, they have two luxury cars in the driveway, and a housekeeper, Blanca (Gloria Garayua), to help look after their son, Billy. But Dick and Jane's fairy-tale life crashes head-on into reality when the firm Dick works for turns out to have been using unscrupulous
Dec 21, 2005 Wide
Apr 11, 2006
$110.3M
Columbia Pictures
All Critics (147) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (98) | DVD (22)
Dick and Jane thereby emerge comically and sentimentally as the unlikeliest of collectivist crusaders.
The movie starts off silly, soon becomes funny and then skyrockets into irrepressible hilarity.
Fun With Dick & Jane offers the faintly depressing sight of Jim Carrey, like Dick Harper, doing whatever it takes to earn his supper.
They are funny bits, but there are too few of them. Fun With Dick and Jane just isn't all that fun.
In striving for inspiration, Fun with Dick and Jane discovers moments of cleverness, but there aren't enough of them, nor are they sustained.
Most of it plays out as sub-medium-grade farce, but Carrey has some funny calisthenic bits where he appears to have the pliability of a rubber toy.
Fun with Dick and Jane is an extended Enron joke used to give Jim Carrey plenty of opportunity to mug for the camera. Everything else is more or less perfunctory to that.
Consider it a signed confession of remake rape when a "produced by Jim Carrey" credit appears atop his noodle-limbed exaggeration of "I Believe I Can Fly." his corporate-greed satire doesn't just lack bite. It lacks gnaw. It even lacks nibble.
So-so comedy; not likely to interest kids.
With the ever-escalating assault against Hollywood by the neo-conservatives and their tightening surveillance over movie content, humor of this kind may turn out to be the best revenge.
The downward mobility of the middle class straight to the poverty level, or crime often not as evil, but rather economic desperation, are plot points hardly likely to sit well with those who control this economy and profit from it.
An entertaining and zippy 87 minutes.
In a strange way, it's fitting that a movie about people out of work should itself barely work.
This cynical look at how the American family can only achieve their dreams through crime is a bit more of a political statement rather than comedic entertainment.
Remember The Mask? The film that became so popular because of Carrey's physical comedy performances? Fun With Dick and Jane is just like that. It's not as funny neither does it have any character development but trust me. It's funny.
November 14, 2011
Super Reviewer
Funny at some parts, but mostly a bad movie, I did not enjoy it almost at all, one of Jim Carreys bad movies.
August 15, 2011
Super Reviewer
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