Another Jim Carrey Movie

Rating: Null/10 (26 May 2003)

This wasn't my favorite movie in the "God is benevolent and we're whiney losers"-genre, for a couple of reasons. First of all, It's a Wonderful Life occupies the top spot with Signs coming in a close second. Secondly, Jim Carrey was just a bit too over the top, even for him. If I had been in Tom Shadyac's shoes, I might have gone for an actor without the inherent slapstick nature that seems to accompany Jim Carrey in every film he's in. I actually think the film would have been vastly improved if Carrey would have made Bruce Nolan a little more like Truman Burbank and a little less like Ace Ventura. Some of his antics, like the jumbling of Evan Baxter's (Steven Carell) newscast, were hilarious, but it was really hard to take him seriously for the other 115 minutes.