Saying "yes" to this script was the second dumbest thing Carrey ever did - after dating Courtney Love.

Rating: Null/10 (25 March 2010)

Is this a script even Adam Sandler had previously rejected? "Sorry, guys, but it's too dumb, even for me." Why do those cheesy "feelgood comedies" from Hollywood always make me feel crap? If Jim Carrey continues like this, he will soon be eligible for the Steve Martin & Bill Murray No-Longer-Funny-Comedians Graveyard.
Just like modern horror films cannot exist without at least two pairs of dumb/horny teens (waiting to be butchered), recent comedies cannot possibly be made without being romantic comedies. This pandering to the female audiences is ruining even potentially good comedies. Fortunately, that's where the good news come in: YM isn't one of them, i.e. the film had so little potential anyway, nothing much had been ruined by injecting into it predictable formulaic she-loves-me-she-loves-me-not schmaltz.
YM has one of the most cretinous premises of all time. It's cretinously far-fetched even by 21st-century's low Hollywood standards. Saying "yes" to everything results in predictable plot-twists, yet nothing can compare in predictability than the basic cliché ingredients of practically every single romantic comedy:
1) If the couple hooks up half-way through the film, this means that they have to split up at some point half-an-hour before the movie ends so that the film's "mega-highlight" can consist of the pair hooking up again, and living happily ever after. Women, get those handkerchiefs out, for the romantic comedy's obligatory dull she-loves-me-after-all ending requires of you to be moved emotionally.
2) Make the lead couple split up because one of them (usually the female) gets angry due to some totally silly trifle of a non-reason: Deschanel dumps Carrey for a reason so non-existent that even the script's writer probably doesn't quite understand her motives. "You kept saying 'yes' to everything, Carl, so how do I know you really love me! You hesitated AN ENTIRE SECOND when I asked you to move in with me! Boo-hoo-hoo!" Idiotic.
3) End the 100-minute romantic-comedy drudgery with a foreseeable action scene. Pointless action scenes are easy to write, and don't require any gags. They are a great way to round off the pointlessness of everything that preceded it. "Here you go, viewers: after 100 minutes of 5 funny gags, 500 misfired ones, and several tedious "romantic" I-love-you scenes, we present to you a nice little action scene to wake you up - or put you into even deeper slumber."
The movie did, however, elicit a big, loud laugh from me at the very end, when the end-credits said: "YM was based on a book". I just thought it was hilarious that someone actually wrote an entire novel with this Z-grade bubble-gum concept. Was it a children's book then?