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The Cable Guy's dark flashes of thought-provoking, subversive wit are often -- but not always -- enough to counter its frustratingly uneven storytelling approach.
All Critics (77) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (36) | DVD (4)
The Cable Guy is a gutsy move on Carrey's part, suggesting a willingness to grow just where commercial good sense would say to stand pat. Mar 10, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
The Cable Guy is a gutsy move on Carrey's part, suggesting a willingness to grow just where commercial good sense would say to stand pat.
Dave Kehr
Carrey's life-of-a-bad-party manner is a major hoot as he toys with Broderick over legal and illegal installations. Dec 12, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Carrey's life-of-a-bad-party manner is a major hoot as he toys with Broderick over legal and illegal installations.
Gene Siskel
Whether Carrey's fans will like it or not, the film is easily his best crafted piece of work to date. Dec 12, 2018 | Full Review…
Whether Carrey's fans will like it or not, the film is easily his best crafted piece of work to date.
Jay Boyar
To watch Carrey leering with joy at the prospect of making respectable people guess dirty words, and Broderick trying to avoid the whole thing, is to enjoy their best comic synergy. Dec 12, 2018 | Full Review…
To watch Carrey leering with joy at the prospect of making respectable people guess dirty words, and Broderick trying to avoid the whole thing, is to enjoy their best comic synergy.
Desson Thomson
[The Cable Guy] is so repellent as to be almost literally unwatchable. This comedy isn't dark, it's extinguished. It isn't entertainment, it's pathology. Dec 12, 2018 | Full Review…
[The Cable Guy] is so repellent as to be almost literally unwatchable. This comedy isn't dark, it's extinguished. It isn't entertainment, it's pathology.
Joe Morgenstern
While not the truly incisive film it could have been, this cautionary tale proves that there's more to Carrey than stupidity with an inflated price tag. Dec 12, 2018 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
While not the truly incisive film it could have been, this cautionary tale proves that there's more to Carrey than stupidity with an inflated price tag.
Jeff Shannon
Sure, in the title role [Carrey] plays another in-your-face, over-the-top, wild and crazy guy. But for once he is not a lovable goof. He is a rather unsavory psychotic. And the movie itself is not pure farce: it is satire, with a disturbing edge. Mar 22, 2019 | Full Review…
Sure, in the title role [Carrey] plays another in-your-face, over-the-top, wild and crazy guy. But for once he is not a lovable goof. He is a rather unsavory psychotic. And the movie itself is not pure farce: it is satire, with a disturbing edge.
Brian D. Johnson
While it makes a convincing case that too much television is ultimately brain-rotting, it does so with an unjustifiable smugness. Mar 10, 2019 | Full Review…
While it makes a convincing case that too much television is ultimately brain-rotting, it does so with an unjustifiable smugness.
Michael Dwyer
This is a darker film for Carrey, but he's still Jim Carrey. His shenanigans keep even the blackest moments goofy. Mar 10, 2019 | Full Review…
This is a darker film for Carrey, but he's still Jim Carrey. His shenanigans keep even the blackest moments goofy.
Mark Bazer
As a supposed summer blockbuster, this is a very eccentric film: The Cable Guy mocks its star as a pathetic jerk and comes close to telling its audience that we are, too. Mar 10, 2019 | Full Review…
As a supposed summer blockbuster, this is a very eccentric film: The Cable Guy mocks its star as a pathetic jerk and comes close to telling its audience that we are, too.
Mark Steyn
Those who like enjoy seeing performers open up their ids in the name of comedy might get a kick out of Carrey's spooky malevolence. Others, however, enter at their own risk. Mar 10, 2019 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
Those who like enjoy seeing performers open up their ids in the name of comedy might get a kick out of Carrey's spooky malevolence. Others, however, enter at their own risk.
Wallace Baine
It barely matters that The Cable Guy fails [to satirize TV], because it is crammed with other pleasures, not least Carrey, who lets us glimpse the human being behind the sociopath. Dec 12, 2018
It barely matters that The Cable Guy fails [to satirize TV], because it is crammed with other pleasures, not least Carrey, who lets us glimpse the human being behind the sociopath.
Ryan Gilbey
Funny dark comedy, but not so good as look like. Rotten.
Super Reviewer
Jim Carrey shines as usual, but the film can be easily forgettable with the amount of simplistic humor and tone. The Cable Guy has its moments but is easily brought down from its bland comedy and sometimes creepy undertone. 2.5/5
24/01/2013 (Quickflix, PS3)
A big hit and miss, yet it's a pretty good cult film. Confusing and not amazing during the first watch. However the second time, it was funnier and certain lines became more recognised. Lets face it, this is for Jim Carrey fans. 'The Cable Guy' is not as iconic as 'Ace Ventura'. It isn't as touching as 'The Truman Show', but you either watch it or you don't, you love it or hate it.
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