Funny at times but very forgettable overall.

Rating: 5/10 (12 January 2011)

Yes Man, starring Jim Carrey, is a charming, if unremarkable, story about a man who is unwilling to go out and live his life until he attends a seminar that unveils to him to power of the word yes. Afterwords Carrey is compelled to say yes to every opportunity that presents itself to him. So instead always making excuses and spending his nights alone on the couch watching a DVD from his local video store, Carrey plans an engagement party for his best friend's fiancé, who hates him, learns Korean, takes flying lessons, helps the homeless, hangs shelves for his elderly neighbor, and a host of other things. It's a very similar movie concept to Along Came Polly, A Guy Thing, or Chaos Effect, each tells the story of an unhappy, yet orderly man whose life is turned upside down and eventually improved through comedic spontaneity. The movie is done well enough but there a too few laughs and I found the plot had a great deal of untapped potential. The result is a film that lacks the laughs of other Carrey gems like Liar Liar as well as any real meaning like The Truman Show. Yes Man is watchable but is not very memorable.