Ex- Jim Carrey fan

Rating: 3/10 (26 December 2008)

This was not only one of the worst Jim Carrey movies I've seen- and I've seen them all... it is one of the worst FILMS I have seen in the last few years.
Some reviews I read here are quick to forgive how "formulaic" this movie is... and I am a sucker for a good formula. I enjoy a good romantic comedy too. However, a rom-com should be EITHER romantic or funny, hopefully both. This was neither.
The romance was completely unbelievable, no chemistry whatsoever. Carrey acts disconnected, and while he is not over the top, the comedy seems desperate... not insane- funny like he used to be, I mean his Dumb and Dumber character was even endearing, and I loved that movie. Here, he is just... dull. Then he transforms and he is... still dull.
The primary thing about this movie here is, I don't believe it.
I am a pro at suspending disbelief to enjoy a movie... but here, I didn't believe one phony minute of the entire movie. For example, in one scene, he is following the girl of his dreams, and she says "stop, get away from me. Farther!" and he literally runs, brushing his friend aside, sprinting away in the middle of a busy airport. Because, you see, she asked him to go away, and he must obey. OK. There was some nervous laughter in the theatre as if people felt some obligation. Another time he gets in a fight in an alley and ... nothing either funny or dramatic happens. Actually that pretty much explains the whole movie. I'm not saying that you really need anything special to happen... I mean I like guys just sitting there talking sometimes, if the dialog is witty and the characters are likable and believable (e.g. 40 year old virgin, knocked up, Seinfeld the classic TV example, etc).
NO spoiler here but I felt the ending was a final, fitting, nose-thumbing to the audience from the imagination-less buffoons that obviously think that just trotting poor Carrey out there doing the same old thing would be good enough for us. What they forgot however, is you need a plot, decent writing, a believable situation, dramatic tension, jokes or at least some form of humor, and chemistry between the actors. I felt sorry for Carrey in this movie. Nothing wrong with him... he did his best but there was nothing here to work with.
That's 90 minutes of my life that I will never get back- even worse, it felt like twice that.