Leaving the Strip

Rating: Null/10 (10 July 2004)

Something like a spoiler warning...
This is a milestone in Jim Carrey's career: something unique, something different. Frequently he is given a character whether lawyer, Grinch, pet detective and required to be a total goofball as the character. Here is not the case. Here he is given the character and required to try and be normal (he can't, but that's the point) and then have an alter-ego where he can explode.
The effects have dated somewhat in the last decade, but it's Carrey's comic timing that still make it interesting. He's allowed to go into excess, something that few other of his films (except maybe his stint as the Riddler) permit without insulting us like 'Dumb & Dumber'.
Watch Carrey acting like a cartoon, then becoming a cartoon, while completing the irony by watching the same cartoons. That's the evolution of Jerry Lewis for you...and it's still funny.
This also introduced Diaz and her formula.
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