You make me laugh, ha, ha!

Rating: Null/10 (22 September 2009)

The TRAILer of this film made me laugh. That face JC makes, when he's telling the lovely Korean girl (Vivian Bang) that his friend's fiancée hates him, is fantastic and you can tell Vivian is really laughing.
A lot of actors/directors believe in letting the comedy of the moment speak for itself via natural acting and that's fine. But it's Carrey's style and gift to make a funny moment funnier by being silly that makes you laugh instead of THINKing about laughing.
I like to laugh. I also like to think but I do enough of that on my own. I prefer Jim's comic efforts more than the "Truman Show" and "Eternal Sunshine" and other more serious efforts. I loved the "Series Of Unfortunate Events" which allowed his acting genius to shine, where he could be diverse, dark and comic.
Yes, some of Carrey's films are formulaic but whose aren't? It's his ability to break the formula from within the formula that makes him Jim Carrey.
Yes, Jim Carrey is getting older. Who isn't? He's still ten thousand times funnier than the geniuses who are saying "Hey, he's getting older" as if everyone else is getting younger.
The people who made comments about the age difference between JC and Deschanel weren't 20 years old, they were 40 year old female actresses and their beauticians.
On the other hand, people are complaining about the octogenarian sex. Was it vital to the plot? No. Did Carl/Jim instigate it? No. Was he a bit repulsed by it? Yes. Was it uncomfortable? Yes. Was it human? Yes. It's unfortunate that old people are still horny, that bankers and governments are corrupt, that humans aren't monogamous- but that's life and life isn't always about the comfortable and politically correct. It's boringly typical that people are upset that an old woman is horny; if it had been an old man, it would have been cliché or ignored. Alan Arkin is horny in "Little Miss Sunshine" and that's OK but old Tillie is a little bored and randy and it's inappropriate. Old women get horny, too.
Zooey Deschanel's anger at Carl's "yes-ism" seemed contrived. In a real situation, he should have let her walk and waited till she called him- which she would have in time. Guys- wake up!
This is a cute, funny, positive film with a message of life and moderation AND it takes the time to ridicule the terror situation in America. For that reason, if for no other, it should be praised.