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...Alaska. Schwarzenegger takes the Brady Bunch into Witness Protection. Danny DeVito and Shaquille O'Neal--twins! Bill Murray goes bowling with his pet elephant. A tornado spits a giant spaceship onto the White House lawn and out steps the most destructive alien force the world has ever known: Jim Carrey...
...WEEKEND BEFORE LAST, moviegoers spent $37.8 million to see the new Jim Carrey comedy, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls--more money than the combined take of Nos. 2 through 20 on the box-office list. Few films have achieved such instant dominance, and certainly none so awful as this sequel, about the pet detective's trip to Africa to find a precious white bat and prevent a war between two backward tribes. Nearly the best one can say of Ace 2 is that it's blithely, ceaselessly racist...
...Mask, Dumb & Dumber and Batman Forever, the star created a maniacally precise comic style. Here--well, he works hard. In the 105 minutes of Ace 2, Carrey rides an ostrich; feeds an eaglet mouth to mouth; emerges from the anus of a mechanical rhino; makes his eyebrows move like kooky caterpillars; bends over and utters the Tarzan cry through his rear; sneezes on, spits at and blows paper wads into the faces of various African men; and sings Chitty Chitty Bang Bang several times more than is absolutely necessary...
This review is not the cry of a prude. Frankly, we don't care if a joke's funny as long as it's dirty. But in switching writer-directors, from the first film's Tom Shadyac to Steve Oedekerk, Carrey lost a clever farceur and got what Ace would call a la-hoo-za-her (loser). The star plays more than ever to himself; the cast stands around starched and embarrassed, like white-tie judges at a wet-T shirt contest. Wearying, stupefying, dumber than dumb, When Nature Calls would be a career ender for Carrey--except that...
...know where on Brattle Street the theatre is, let alone seek it out to watch movies. Many do not know it is the only theatre in the Harvard Square area to show classics, reissues and art films. They eschew Barbara Stanwyck and Jimmy Stewart for Demi Moore and Jim Carrey--and most don't even know what they're missing...