6. The Mask (1994)
Tomatometer: 76 percent

One of the only films to ever net its star nominations from both the Golden Globes and the Golden Raspberries, 1994's The Mask presented filmgoers with something of an early '90s trifecta: State of the art special effects, some marvelously over-the-top mugging from Jim Carrey, and a heaping helping of va-va-va-voom from instant star Cameron Diaz, who turned Carrey's nebbishy bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss into a leering Tex Avery wolf (and had roughly the same effect on male viewers). It's loud and far from subtle, but The Mask is also a lot of fun, not least because Carrey's impossibly limber performance ultimately proves to be as much of a special effect as anything else on the screen. Variety's Leonard Klady spoke for many of his peers when he summed it up as "adroitly directed, viscerally and visually dynamic and just plain fun."

5. Dr. Seuus' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
Tomatometer: 79 percent

Carrey's first brush with a Seuss-inspired adaptation didn't go so well, which may have scared a few viewers away from the CG-animated Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! -- but it was their loss, as attested by the mostly quite positive reviews that greeted the second film adaptation of this timeless tale of a good-hearted elephant who teaches his detractors that "a person's a person, no matter how small." As Horton's voice, Carrey did a better job of adding marquee value than bringing hidden layers of meaning to his character, and critics were quick to point out that Horton suffers most of the same difficulties that are bound to trouble a 90-minute film based on an illustrated short story, but for most, the movie's charms proved impossible to resist -- such as Brian Webster of the Apollo Guide, who happily reported that "taking on Seuss has proven a challenge for Hollywood, but a nice balance has been struck here between authenticity and new ideas. This one's a winner."