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That you may not have seen...

Last night we watched "Fun With Dick And Jane"....(The 2005 version with Jim Carrey and Téa Leoni)

It's absolutely hilarious....

I'm not a huge Carrey fan, (for me, a little Jim Carrey goes a long way; I liked The Mask, and Cable Guy, but the movie I liked him best in was as The Riddler in Batman Forever where he wasn't playing the main character)

I knew the plot line and vaguely recalled the original with George Segal and Jane Fonda, but I think this version is much funnier...

Like the original Out Of Towners, (with Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis; not the hideous remake with Steve Martin) there's a laugh in practically every scene...

The chemistry between Carrey and Leoni is first rate; and Tea Leoni is a fantastic comedienne with great comedic presence and timing...I don't understand why she doesn't get more work... (She was also excellent in Tower Heist, which has a similar kind of theme, but she didn't get to showcase her comedy talents the way she did in this flick)

And Alec Baldwin also does an excellent job playing an Über Asshole, but of course that's not really much of a dramatic stretch for him...

I saw that some years ago and detested it. Jim Carrey has had, imho, exactly one movie that was funny, Liar Liar.

But hey, chocolate and vanilla eh?

Refuse to watch anything with that Carrey/Stiller/Ferrel person in it on principle.

Gob wrote:Refuse to watch anything with that Carrey/Stiller/Ferrel person in it that features American actors on principle.

Fixed that for you...

Kinda with Gob on that one. The odd thing about 'The Out of Towners" (original version) was that I thought it wonderful the first time I saw it - kind of amusing the second time and utterly awful the third time. Even the third time, LJ's right - it was better than the remake.

I guess sometimes there are movies that one thinks are terrific on first viewing but later are just a bit of a shame.

The odd thing about 'The Out of Towners" (original version) was that I thought it wonderful the first time I saw it - kind of amusing the second time and utterly awful the third time.

Well, I couldn't disagree more...

I have the flick on DVD and re-watch it probably every three or four months and every time I still get a laugh out of it...

The movie was made more than 40 years ago, (1970) but it still holds up remarkably well...

Gob wrote:Refuse to watch anything with that Carrey/Stiller/Ferrel person in it on principle.

I recommend The Truman Show.

Don;'t start me o that shite! Do you know how many schizophrenic people I have had on my caseload who have believed that that was actually happening to them?!?!??

I reccomend the number 23 and eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

Crackpot wrote:I reccomend the number 23 and eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

We all could use a little of that.