Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Fun with Dick and Jane review


Dick Harper (Jim Carrey) is promoted to VP of Communications at Globodyne Corporations he thinks he's got it made. His wife, Jane (Tea Leoni) quits her job because of his promotion. However, Globodyne tanks and soon their life goes from great to terrible as their lawn is repossessed, their electricity is turned off, turning in their leased car and selling their possessions. Eventually they are forced to become armed robbers.

The Film:

Where do I start. The film is very unfunny for most of the first hour. There just isn't anything really funny until they actually forced to become robbers. Until that happens we are forced to watch unfunny skits about their misfortunes such as Jane's cosmetics test, stealing the neighbors grass and plants and watching them fail at new jobs.

It doesn't get somewhat funny until they actually start robbing places. But even some of those fall flat and even those that are funny only bring a smile or a short chuckle. Eventually they scheme to steal 400 million dollars from their ex-boss and there are some funny moments in the finale. But it's too little too late.

Jim & Tea try their best with the script as do their costars, but it's to no avail. For a comedy it fails for it never made me laugh out loud once. For a 90 minute film it seemed so much longer.

Even Jim Carrey fans will find this one lacking. In fact I feel sorry for Jim to have been cast in this mess.

Can you tell I didn't like it much. I'd say skip it.

Features:

First we get a 3 minute montage of bloopers. Some of which is funnier than what wound up in the film itself.

Next we get 6 deleted scenes. Just more dull scenes that deserved to be deleted and none would have helped the film anyways.

Press Junket Highlights runs about 4 minutes and is exactly what is sounds like. A few smiles, but nothing laugh out loud funny here either.

Audio Commentary: Sorry didn't listen to it. Just not going to watch the film again just to listen to it, it's just not worth it.

Conclusion:

A huge letdown. A comedy that almost completely lacks in anything that would make me laugh out loud. Sure there are a few funny moments, but they are absent from almost the first hour of the film. The last half hour is really the only thing that's even remotely funny. But it's simply too little too late for what may perhaps be one of the saddest attempts at a comedy I've seen in years.