Say "Yes" to this film, you won't regret!

Rating: 9/10 (21 January 2012)

Here's an interesting case of taking two movies of the same actor, trade a few things to create a third one whose result is quite funny. In "Liar Liar" where Jim Carrey played an notorious liar who couldn't tell lies after his son's birthday wish. And in one moment of "Bruce Almighty" when he was given to right to be God for some time, his character answers "Yes" to the prayers of everybody who asked him something. "Yes Man" mixed the premise and the moment from both films but this time Carrey has an life changing experience where he'll stop of being an negative person to become an man who answers "Yes" to everything that comes in his life. Confusion and some hilarious moments are set in a film that must not be taken so seriously.
What would happen with a man whose job at a bank consists in saying "No" to people and who also says this same word to his friends whenever they want his company, if he had to say Yes" for a whole year? What kind of obstacles and/or advantages he would get? After being dragged by an old friend (John Michael Higgins) to an workshop about saying yes to thing and lead a positive life, the dull Carl will see that life might open lots of doors to him but at the same time will put him into an gigantic load of confusion, heartaches, and add things he don't need in his life (or it appears he won't need them but eventually he'll use somehow like learning Corean or learn how to play guitar. Things that only happen in film scripts.)
Carrey takes advantage of his enormous variety of facial expressions to compose the troubled Carl while facing lots of misfortunes and disasters in his life, most of them very comical, others a little bit dramatic like when he rescues a man who want to jump to his death. Basically, it's the Jim Carrey we've get used to see, being very funny in ridiculous situations. And the movie comes with an obvious message of knowing how and when to give up from saying "yes".
Of course a film like this fall into some absurds and some annoyance (like when Carl is arrested by the FBI considered to be an suspect of terrorism) but there is brilliance in this as well (when he's promoted to a higher position in the bank after approving an great number of small money loans or his moments with a girl he meets, played by Zooey Deschanel).
It's a nice way to spend the day, there's plenty of good and funny moments. "Yes Man" has an great cast that includes Danny Masterson, Bradley Cooper, Terrence Stamp (playing the Yes guru), Brent Briscoe and Fionnula Flanagan.
And in last case it might change your life, making you being more open and positive about things. The two first steps for it is by watching the film and by giving me a yes in this review. Then, you'll see how easy is to say yes to things. When you say yes, amazing things can happen. 9/10