A flattened jumble.
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... 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 first language is Spanish thanks to spending so much time with nanny Blanca (Gloria Garayua). Things change in the blink of an eye when Dick is promoted to vice president of communications at Globodyne, where he has worked for years. His first order of business: to appear on a popular news show about business and money and lend his magic touch to news of Globodyne's earnings. But Dick doesn't know that Globodyne is about to tank, and in the midst of his interview the situation goes from bad to horrendous and he becomes the scapegoat. In the blink of an eye he is unemployed, his pension is bust, and he can't find a job to save his life. Their front lawn is even repossessed. To make matters worse, Jane quit her job as soon as Dick was promoted, their house has lost value, and their savings was in Globodyne stock. Months later the Harpers find themselves in increasingly dire straits. They resort to paying their nanny with appliances, selling all of their possessions and are facing foreclosure on their house when Dick has a brainstorm: he'll start to steal. Jane joins him, and soon the duo is dressing in elaborate costumes and robbing local businesses and homes. When their final job goes bust, they decide to go for the big heist: scamming Globodyne president Jack McAllister (Alec Baldwin) out of his stolen fortune. Dean Parisot (HOME FRIES) directs this remake of the 1977 film of the same name, which has been cheekily updated to incorporate the phenomenon of white-collar crime. Richard Jenkins and Carlos Jacott round out the cast. [More]
Starring: Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni, Richard Jenkins, Alec Baldwin
Starring: Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni, Richard Jenkins, Alec Baldwin, Carlos Jacott, Gloria Garayua
Director: Dean Parisot
Director: Dean Parisot
Producer: Brian Grazer
Composer: Theodore Shapiro
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Reviews for Fun with Dick and Jane
Anyone familiar with the infamous Enron or WorldCom accounting scandals could have written this film (and possibly a better one)
The movie's closing dedication to corporate scandals, including Enron, Tyco, Adelphia and WorldCom, is funny. Too bad the film itself isn't as clever.
The rare Hollywood remake that, by daring to reinterpret its source material within a fresh political context, actually has a reason to exist; the results, if not exactly subtle, are still fun enough to fend off any charges of titular false advertising.
The film's overall frantic tone can't disguise the fact that the picture offers little delivery for all its buildup. Everyone involved with this production must have known there was a good movie somewhere, but no one's been quite able to find it.
It's hard to find too much fault with a movie as cheerfully twisted as this one
It's inoffensive material with few laughs and even fewer jabs. And when the end credits thank guys such as Jeffrey Skilling and Bernie Ebbers, you'll swear it should be the other way around.
Remakes, which rarely make sense, are even more questionable when what's being remade was underwhelming to begin with.
The fun in the film's title comes from watching comfortably middle-class people do without the usual buffers and privileges.
It's so incoherent, you actually feel sort of insulted that the filmmakers think little enough of you to release it in this condition.
It may be the holidays, but Carrey and his cohorts offer precious little cheer here...The first movie of this title...wasn't much fun, and this updating is even less so.
Starts out as a nifty satire, then turns ghastly for most of its running time.
[This] second-rate Jim Carrey movie is still better than most comedies.
A sendup of Enron and companies like it without the earnestness of the documentary "Enron" but with the high spirits of a man who tries various ways to get back.
Parison keeps the action well paced so that there is not one minute that drags. This is a comedy of ultimate revenge. At 90 minutes, it's silly and enjoyable.
Social commentary mingles with stupid comedy in this humorless update of a 1977 George Segal-Jane Fonda romp.
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