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"We're in a bit of a pickle, Dick"
Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni play Dick and Jane Harper, an upwardly mobile, happily married couple enjoying their slice of American pie. Both have job fulfillment and live in the upper-middle class tax bracket. Both are so fixated on work that they have neglected their young son Billy, who prefers to speak Spanish, thanks to the Mexican maid, who has mostly reared him. <
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>Dick works for Globodyne Corporation and gets promoted to VP of Communications (but only so he could play scapegoat when the corporate stocks plummet). Globodyne goes under, Dick loses his job. At the same time, Jane quits her position in the travel agency. Their lifestyle takes a downhill turn ("We're in a bit of a pickle, Dick") - the lawn is repossesed; they have to frequent all-you-can-eat restaurants and pile food a foot high on the plate; they sell their tv (the kid piteously cries out "Don't take my Telemundo!") They manage to eke by for a while by taking on menial, minumum-wage gigs: Jane sells her body for science experiments and becomes a jeet kune do instructor; Dick works at KostMart and hires on as a day laborer (but gets deported to Mexico). Out of desperation, Dick resorts to robbery, initially abetted by a bemused Jane, who doesn't take long to get with the program. The film goes on to depict the Harpers' criminal hijinks while garbed in various disguises (my favorite is the Sonny & Cher costumes). The final 20 minutes or so reveals how Dick and Jane get even with the dastardly CEO of Globodyne. <
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>This comedy is a remake of the great 1977 Fun With Dick & Jane, which starred George Segal, Jane Fonda and Ed McMahon (!). This update is just as hilarious and, what's more, is more relevant and topical today. Globodyne Corporation is obviously patterned after Enron, in its nefarious misdealings and amoral disregard and treatment of their employees and stockholders. The film also pokes fun at the dog-eat-dog world of competitive employment and satirizes the lengths people would go to to attain a career foothold. Yeah, it's over the top but remember, this is a Jim Carrey starrer. <
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>Jim Carrey tones down enough here (not much, but enough) that you get more involved with his character. But, as usual, when he goes for the laughs, he will crack you up with his rubber face and elastic frame. It's not surprising that Tea Leoni acquits herself well. She is an accomplished comedic actress, beautiful and wry, but smoothly meshing with Carrey in the crazy moments. They should do more films together. Alec Baldwin, on the other hand, has got that sleazy corporate persona down cold. Aaron Michael Drozin as the Harpers' son Billy provided me with some of my biggest guffaws; the kid is good. <
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>The special features were a letdown for me. The gag reel was subpar for a Carrey film. The filmmakers' audio commentary left me cold - for some reason, these guys thought they were stand-up comedians and just rambled away with incessantly unfunny oneliners, seemingly not even caring enough to stay on point with the onscreen scenes - *infuriating*. I do give a thumbs-up to the publicity outtakes; once again, these promo bits prove the Carrey-Leoni comedic onscreen chemistry is real. All in all, I give it a well-deserved four stars. Enjoy.

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They really messed up, could have been hilarious.
I think the movie should have been about each of their robberies and a new zany costume each time and how it played out. That would have been funny, not some sappy story with a few chuckles in it........ Also, I didn't understand the ending at all and it was not explained.

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Has a few laughs.
This movie has some funny moments but alas, it also has Jim Carey who as usual, gives a performance that makes Jerry Lewis seem restrained. I saw this on a plane and when Carey started singing "I believe I can fly" the emergency exit started looking pretty good. <
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>Still, its hard not to laugh when Carey goes on an interview for the one decent job he has come across...only to find there are a hundred guys in line. This makes more of a statement about our current business climate than the Alec Baldwin/Bernie Ebbers thing they have going. <
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>It reminded me of Lost In America and I would have loved to see Albert Brooks (or Nick Cage) pull off those robberies!