OK, the dog was funny. But that's it.

Rating: 1/10 (20 June 2004)

The premise seems OK, and it would be funny if taken to its anarchic extremes, but somehow they managed to take every bit of possible humor out of this situation and create a preachy, treacly piece of annoying fluff. It's moralistic, it's based on supernatural nonsense, it's politically correct (black god), it's everything that's wrong with movies. The setting doesn't feel the least like Buffalo, so it doesn't have any regional charm. The girlfriend is just a prop.
Jim Carrey does lots of schtick to make the unfunny seem like it might be funny. World's largest cookie, not funny. Endless file drawer, not funny. Getting wet at Niagara Falls, not funny. They even tack on some unfunny outtakes--what's the point of that? We get it: the movie is not funny!
OK, the dog was funny. But that's it.