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This was not the film for Alex--a boy who feels Carey's career peaked with "Ace Ventura II: When Nature Calls." I'm not entirely sure, in fact, whom this is a film for, other than future stalkers of America. While Carey does provide just enough moronic humor to induce vomiting, his role does not hearken one's mind back to the salad days of "Dumb and Dumber." Instead, we are greeted with an eerie and disturbing tale, meant, it seems, to expose to us the dark side...
...film's more touching moments (which isn't saying much), we are shown vague, blurry flashbacks of Carey's parentless childhood. His father abandoned him and his mother left him nightly to pick up men in sleazy bars, leaving the TV as his only guidance. Sniff sniff...
...when Carey challenges Broderick to a joust that we see the stormy seas of psychosis on the horizon? Was it when he plays "Dirty Password"--"The adult version of the popular game show"--with Broderick's mother and girlfriend? Or how about the time he sets Broderick up with a girl who later turns out to be a prostitute? Really, there are so many warning signs that our friend The Cable Guy is one big psycho...
...partial understanding, however, is probably more than you'd really want anyway. Do you really want to watch the love triangle developing between Carey, Broderick and Broderick's girlfriend--who, incidentally, rushes to get back with Broderick after Carey hooks her up with free cable...
Free cable is, after all, the force that binds this movie together. In the world of "The Cable Guy," Carey, the giver of cable, becomes the brazen icon of a false god, pulling a motley crew of followers under his spell and making them cheer his vaguely pornographic karaoke rendition of "Somebody to Love...