Carrey does his thing but fairly well this time

Rating: 7/10 (27 September 2005)

Not that I don't like this movie but after you have seen it there you feel that it could have been a little better. Carrey does what he does best, despite being somewhat prone to overact (there is a prank that one of his co-stars pulls on him that is absolutely hilarious in the out-takes). Still, you get the feeling that this was not (for a lack of a better word) a high priority film. Yes, it's entertaining but Carrey is the whole show here. The other actors' performances could just have easily been reading from cue-cards through the whole thing and it wouldn't have made much of a difference.
The reason I give it a 7 is simply because of Carrey's outrageous performance when he is under his son's spell and from who else could you see a man brushing his tongue and still find it kind of funny. The one person who is amusing is Jennifer Tilly simply because of the rather drastic change she gives her character at the end.
Simply put, this is a film that is inoffensive, has a lot of belly-laughs but not really memorable when the novelty has worn off.