Entertaining? Yes! Great? No!

Rating: 6/10 (21 May 2009)

This movie has a nice message: Be positive in life, and it will be as you wish it would. This idea of positivity resumed in the "Yes to life" quote is quite interesting and even being over exaggerated in the film is really good to use as an ideal for living... It's not really a novelty that positive feelings attract good things and negative ones deliver you into emptiness and loneliness, but it's always good to remember that. Even knowing that in real life things are not so easy to solve like in the movies, especially those made in Hollywood, is good to remember that positive thought!
Well, in fact I think the real good feature of this film is its message. As a film itself it's so so... There're a few nice jokes, some good laughs but nothing exceptional. The acting is average. Jim Carrey has a role to his measure, as expected, and Zooey Deschanel does a regular performance either. Rhys Darby who plays NORMAN does a funny character. He and Jim Carry look stupid but hilarious with those HARRY POTTER suites!
Globally I think it's an interesting film especially because of the main message, but it could never be great because it follows too much some Hollywood's canons, what make it a "pop corn flick"... therefore entertaining but not great!