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I think this movie needs to be skipped.
Contrived and silly to say the least.
It's a small, nice return to form by Jim Carrey.
The first time I saw Yes Man, I thought the concept was getting kind of stale toward the end. As it turns out, that was only the trailer.
If you own the superior Liar Liar, you might as well stay home and watch it again. When Hollywood can't be both-ered to come up with new ideas, we have every right to just say no.
There are flat performances in the film, false situations and bad lines, but the laughs are there and the message about personal transformation is timeless.
As self-help comedy, the movie is no more overdetermined than its own highbrow counterpart, Happy-Go-Lucky.
It's a decent enough time-killer for Carrey fans and those after something light and non-taxing after a heavy Christmas Day feast.
I have to admit that it was pretty funny a lot of the time.
As much as I try to convince myself I'm tired of Jim Carrey, darn it, he almost always amuses me.
A ready-made Christmas-time crowd-pleaser that pretty much plays it safe, even in its cruder moments, and will be in circulation on cable soon enough.
Mr. Carrey's performance is a return to the rubber-faced roles that dominated multiplexes in the mid- to late '90s, and that's not necessarily a good thing.
Yes Man is proof that reverse psychology works; No, it's not worth seeing because, no, it's not that funny.
The benefits of grounding comedy in reality are never-ending, and Yes Man takes advantage of most of them. Peyton Reed is officially one of my favorite comic directors.
[The] writers...pay lip service to the dark side of 'yes,' but don't do enough to explore what could have made the film more than a bouncy entertainment. [Blu-ray]
...Jim Carrey's most entertaining comedy since 1997's Liar Liar...
I found myself having a few pleasant chuckles but still frustrated at the movie for not bothering with telling a story that hasn't already been told a million times before.
A film that has little plot until the last act, yet Carrey rises above it to bring it to an acceptable level.
who wouldn't want to be in a position to say 'Yes' to everything - from learning Korean to bungee jumping?
...a feel-good movie, and while it may not become a classic, it is quite disarming and passes a pleasant few hours. (Blu-ray Edition)
...a pleasant surprise: a romantic comedy that is cute, amiable, and winning without being excessively tedious, saccharine, or gross.
Is Yes Man a riot? Yes, and no. Zooey doesn't have much to do except the laugh track thing to Carrey's antics. And on a positive note, Carrey gets to make out with three women and also moon the audience biker style, if that's your thing.
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