Takes itself too seriously

Rating: Null/10 (11 April 2003)

I was amazed, reading some of the comments about this movie. If I hadn't seen it - I would have thought it was the most wonderful, thought provoking movie ever made. Having seen it - I wonder what all the hype is about.
Jim Carrey was good, no doubt about that. The story was an interesting one, but you have to suspend an awful amount of belief to accept the general concept. Unless I missed something along the way, I have to ask where did the money come from to sustain a setup of those dimensions. Surely not from a TV show that had run for zonks of years - if TV audiences are nothing else, they are fickle, something like that (if it were possible) would hold audiences for a year or so at best. Then consider the fact that hundreds of people would have to put their private lives on hold, for the purpose of convincing one person that his life was "real" - come on!!! I found that the whole thing was presented with such seriousness, to deliberately make the impression that it was making an earthshaking comment.
I'm happy to accept this movie as a fantasy, an entertaining one on which cast and crew did a good job. But earth shaking it is not, the best movie of all time - not.