PG just too enticing for kids...?

Rating: Null/10 (29 October 1998)

What a change it was to see Jim Carrey in a role not completely nauseating! The plot had depth, the characters were as cheesy as we have come to expect from American sit-com and the audience was noticeably distraught at the mental torment our hero was put through at the expense of entertainment. Obviously an attack on society's own flaws and selfish attitudes, The Truman Show had the auditorium filled with happy smiling children while their mothers went off to complete their shopping. I couldn't help feeling during the showing, that at the points where I was beginning to wait anxiously for the next set-piece - weren't these kids asleep? fidgeting? The advent of the refreshing, thespian Jim Carrey is going to have to carry a warning that not all of his films - though harmless may not carry quite the same jest and amusement to the under 18's.