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Movie Overview
Cast
• Jim Carrey
• Téa Leoni
• Richard Jenkins
Director
• Dean Parisot
MPAA Rating
PG-13 - brief language, some sexual humor and occasional humorous drug references.
Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)

REVIEWS
NEWS
INTERVIEWS
OTHER
OFCS Rating: 34% Rotten
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"Jim Carrey is hilarious as a man who slowly goes insane when his American Dream turns into a nightmare."  ReelTalk Movie Reviews  Betty Jo Tucker

B
"The film coasts on Carrey's enthusiasm alone and without him, I can only imagine how lackluster this remake would be."  FilmJerk.com  Brian Orndorf

"For a comedy with so much politico-cultural baggage on its mind, Dick and Jane remains curiously inert."  PopPolitics.com  Cynthia Fuchs

2/4
"Carrey, in particular, seems to be working overtime in an effort to elicit laughs from some decidedly underwhelming material."  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

D
"The only honest thing about the film was they didn't put a gun to your head and make you buy a ticket."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

2.5/4
"Ridiculous, but gleefully so."  DustinPutman.com  Dustin Putman

B
"It's hard to find too much fault with a movie as cheerfully twisted as this one"  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

2/4
"Fun with Dick and Jane feels like a toothless financial fable desperately trying to weed out its satirical naughtiness."  Movie Eye  Frank Ochieng

D
"It may be the holidays, but Carrey and his cohorts offer precious little cheer here...The first movie of this title...wasn't much fun, and this updating is even less so."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

2/4
"In striving for inspiration, Fun with Dick and Jane discovers moments of cleverness, but there aren't enough of them, nor are they sustained."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

3/4
"Se puede ver simple y sencillamente para pasar el rato, con una buena bolsa de palomitas y un refresco al lado."  Moviola  Jorge Avila Andrade

3.5/5
"Instead of being a satire of the boom-time keeping up with the Joneses, it morphs into more of a "consumption is king" reaffirmation of that dangerous attitude...would be funnier if it hadn't hurt so many people."  Cinerina  Karina Montgomery

2/5
"It didn't totally suck."  7M Pictures  Kevin Carr

"The film proposes Carrey as an Everyman for the 21st century. But if you don't sympathize with the film's variations on the American Dream, that's a frightening thought."  Reverse Shot  Leo Goldsmith

2/4
"The comic payoff is slow to come and culminates in a kind of triumph-of-the-little-guy ending that only Frank Capra can pull off."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

D
"Alternating between lowbrow comedy and pointed political commentary is a bold strategy, but the combination results in a film neither dumb enough nor smart enough to work."  Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema  Mark Pfeiffer

"If there's meant to be any satire in the idea that these two will do almost anything to maintain their obscene consumerist lifestyle, it's lost in the poking fun at what lots of ordinary working-class folks do to make a living."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

3/4
"Fun with Dick and Jane produces a handful of big laughs - big enough to make it worth a recommendation."  Aisle Seat  Mike McGranaghan

B-
"See Dick steal. See Jane drive the getaway car. "  Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies  Nell Minow

1.5/4
"Social commentary mingles with stupid comedy in this humorless update of a 1977 George Segal-Jane Fonda romp."  Slant Magazine  Nick Schager

4/5
"Divertido e com uma boa mensagem política, é um exemplo raro em Hollywood: uma comédia que, sem pregações, tem algo importante a dizer."  Cinema em Cena  Pablo Villaca

1/5
"If ever there was a paycheck movie, Fun with Dick and Jane is it."  Film Threat  Pete Vonder Haar

2/5
"Anyone who likes comedy with an edge will be disappointed at the way this film abandons its clever premise."  Shadows on the Wall  Rich Cline

C+
"This is something that should have waited for the February doldrums when theatergoers are starved for entertainment."  Reeling Reviews  Robin Clifford

0.5/4
"It's so incoherent, you actually feel sort of insulted that the filmmakers think little enough of you to release it in this condition."  Film Freak Central  Walter Chaw

5/10
Read review  JoBlo's Movie Emporium  JoBlo

2/4
Read review  Big Picture Big Sound  Joe Lozito

1/5
Read review  eFilmCritic.com  Peter Sobczynski

2/4
Read review  Laramie Movie Scope  Robert Roten
OFCS Rating: 34% Rotten
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