Fun with Dick and Jane seems proud of its satirical association with the recent corporate scandals. But the movie wants the credit without doing the work.
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12/21/05
Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
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Reviews Counted:127
Fresh:37
Rotten:90
Average Rating:4.9/10
Consensus: This muddled comedy has a few laughs, but never sustains a consistent tone.
Runtime: 3 hrs
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Dick (Jim Carrey) and Jane (Teá Leoni) are a typical suburban couple. They have a nice house in a development, she works as a travel agent to supplement his white-collar income, and their son's... [More]
Starring: Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni, Richard Jenkins, Alec Baldwin
Director: Dean Parisot
Reviews for Fun with Dick and Jane
The Bonnie and Clyde formula gets a healthy dose of laughing gas with this hilarious and apropos slice of social commentary.
12/21/05
If ever there was a paycheck movie, Fun with Dick and Jane is it.
12/21/05
This kind of zany stuff is Carrey's forte, and so it is for Leoni, too. They make a grand pair, and their willingness to look stupid -- not to mention risking injury with various leaps and pratfalls -- gives the movie humour and energy.
12/21/05
The comic payoff is slow to come and culminates in a kind of triumph-of-the-little-guy ending that only Frank Capra can pull off.
12/21/05
This Dick & Jane is precisely the kind of social-problem comedy you'd expect from well-intentioned millionaires unaccustomed to putting their money where their mouths are.
12/21/05
It's fun, and that's fine.
12/21/05
Noticing these echoes leads the viewer to consider -- and even at 85 minutes, the film allows the mind to wander -- what a comedy built around the talented Leoni might be like.
12/21/05
One of the least appealing elements in Hollywood movies now is the element of entrenched hypocrisy -- especially the sleek, anti-capitalist messages embedded in films that are absolutely slick corporate products (and sold accordingly).
12/21/05
The desperation isn't made real, and yet their robberies are all too real. It's in this weird zone, not weird enough for drama, not wild enough for comedy, and only Carrey's moment-by-moment zaniness squeaks out any laughs at all.
12/21/05
Other than its 85-minute running time, the movie is in all other ways imperfect, which is just about what you want from one of Jim Carrey's slapdash slapstick comedies. Perfection would ruin it.
12/21/05
Would somebody, please, find the right comic vehicle for Téa Leoni?
12/21/05
Likable, inventive and occasionally very biting.
12/21/05
Fun with Dick and Jane isn't the least bit interested in the corporate satire it could have created.
12/21/05
Remarkably redundant.
12/21/05
Dick and Jane are fun enough, just not nearly as much fun as they should have been. This is a comedy that's all about the message. It needed to be more about the laughs.
12/21/05
There's something quietly but unmistakably angry underneath all the slapstick. In its own crowd-pleasing way, Dick and Jane '05 wouldn't be out of place on a double-bill with Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.
12/21/05
Speaking of corporate malfeasance, Fun with Dick & Jane cost a disgraceful $100 million -- approximately 33 times the price tag of the 1976 original.
12/21/05
Fun With Dick and Jane is instantly forgettable. Heck, it’s not even that much fun while you’re watching it.
12/21/05
The problem is Fun With Dick And Jane doesn’t have the surehanded direction and timing to work as slapstick, and it’s not smart enough to work as satire.
12/21/05
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