Word: cuteness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said that fastidious filmmakers retreat in dismay muttering, ``Does he mean, like, bathroom jokes?'' Ignoring the advice, they end up dying out there with cute, cautious comedies like Speechless and I.Q. (not to mention spineless farces like Mixed Nuts). Meanwhile, Dumb and Dumber becomes the most popular movie in America. ``Gross-out grosses,'' its rivals may sniff, and they would not be wrong. But so what? The fact is that D and D--in comparison with which Jim Carrey's other pictures look as if they were scripted by Oscar Wilde--makes you laugh out loud for almost its entire...
...opening scene, Gwyn Marcus (Sarah Jessica Parker), a twenty-something advertising copywriter, recounts her past love life to the camera, explaining that she is currently experiencing a dry spell. This déjà-vu-inducing scene (remember the cute old couples describing their romantic history in "When Harry Met Sally?") takes the camera into her past to show us what she's talking about. There it explores Gwyn's relationship with her then boyfriend Matt (Gil Bellows), a sensitive chimp researcher...
...Gwyn's punch lines are written to precede an immediate cut to the next scene This Woody Allen technique renders the film fluid enough that one can ignore the potentially annoying surplus of Gwyn's cute witticisms...
...said that fastidious filmmakers retreat in dismay muttering, "Does he mean, like, bathroom jokes?" Ignoring the advice, they end up dying out there with cute, cautious comedies like Speechless and I.Q. (not to mention spineless farces like Mixed Nuts). Meanwhile, Dumb and Dumber becomes the most popular movie in America. "Gross-out grosses," its rivals may sniff, and they would not be wrong. But so what? The fact is that D and D -- in comparison with which Jim Carrey's other pictures look as if they were scripted by Oscar Wilde -- makes you laugh out loud for almost its entire...
...elaborate drawings of pyramids under construction and of wall paintings are busy and interesting. (Readers of Stephen Jay Gould, the Harvard paleontologist, will recognize Gerrard's agreeable drawing style as "neotonic" -- all faces. Those of adults as well as children are drawn with the wide eyes and short, cute, chubby faces of toddlers.) Best of all, for quick-witted nine-year-olds, there are 10 secret messages written in real hieroglyphs, with a key to translation...