Absolutely!!

Rating: 10/10 (18 August 2009)

This is a truly wonderful 'Carrey On' film. The comic genius of Jim Carrey is at full throttle. And smiling at him enigmatically is the fascinating 'cutest thing on two feet' Zooey Deschanel, who is like Meg Ryan when young, but brunette and with more of an edge to her. It all goes like a Porsche, rushing along smoothly and with more fun than a turtle in a sun bonnet. You can't help laughing and then laughing some more. It just all clicks. It is so satisfying when things work, especially comedy, which can so easily misfire. But here everything is in the hands of pros. Peyton Reed has done a terrific job of directing. Terence Stamp, as a motivational guru, is electrifying and so funny. Special comic genius is also shown by Rhys Darby, with his matey New Zealand twang, who is simply hilarious as a nondescript man who is beyond description. For somebody who is 'normal', how weird can you get? This is one of those totally successful comedies that you dream about. And as for Zooey Deschanel, anybody who doesn't dream about her is, well, only interested in boys. She is not a mere zooeylogical specimen, she is a zooeylogical innovation, a creature with only two arms who manages to wrap herself around you with all hundred of them and just won't let you forget her for a minute. At least I won't, anytime soon. But as for Jim Carrey, he is definitely a specimen never before seen, and still unclassified by science, who should be named Hilarius perpetuus and put in a jar to be kept forever, so that in ages to come, they can de-pickle him and say: My God, this is a funny one!