Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)

Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)

4/10

Starring

Jim Carrey
Téa Leoni
Alec Baldwin
Richard Jenkins
Gloria Garayua

Directed by Dean Parisot

Although I had some laughs and I did, this movie is not meant to be made at all as it lacks all the needed things to make it something you like to see again or want to ask someone to go see.

The movie is based on Fun with Dick and Jane by Gerald Gaiser.

About Dick who had a high-paying job, he and his wife Jane (Téa Leoni) live in an expensive house in the suburbs with their son Billy and housekeeper, Blanca (Gloria Garayua).

Their life crashes head-on into reality when the firm Dick works for turns out to have been losing money but has been lying to everyone. To make matters worse they made Dick the fall guy for some of their dirty dealings.

Now broke and with no money and losing everything, Dick and Jane start getting involved in anything they can, to make money.

The problem with this movie is the script and then the screenplay. Some events in the movie are too ridiculous to even consider that they were added at all. If you now add that to the acting skills of Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni and Alec Baldwin you have great actors doing a good job acting some really stupid scenes.

Nothing really added up or made much sense in the movie, the whole setting Dick up to be the fall guy, was silly and unrealistic. The whole movie felt rushed. It was like the writers were on steroids and were in a hurry to get the movie done, no good solid foundation or anything, just here is Dick, here is Jane, here is the bad guy and let’s go.

While filming the coffee shop robbery scene, Leoni seriously injured her shoulder while sliding on the counter. During the scene where Carrey jumps into the ceiling and hangs above the bank desk, when he was stepping down, he accidentally fell and smacked his face on the floor. This painful blooper made it into the film.

Fun with Dick and Jane came out after Series of Unfortunate Events. Now series was a wonderful movie while this just fell through the cracks. The movie was directed by Dean Parisot, who also directed the not so good RED 2, so his name is on my, “not so good at this yet” list.

Now this movie actually was a financial success, and I did laugh enough times to enjoy it, but as I said I can’t recommend it.