Fun with Dick and Jane

Plot synopsis:
An upper-middle-class couple, Dick and Jane Harper, hit a hump in living the good life when the husband loses his job. Falling through the cracks of society in the United States, they become high-class thieves to get back all they have lost.
Dick Harper is a successful aerospace engineer in Los Angeles, where he and wife Jane have a lovely house, with a swimming pool and new lawn under way. Due to financial reversals at the agency, however, Dick's boss, Charlie Blanchard, suddenly fires him.
Dick and Jane owe more than $70,000 and abruptly have no income. His attempts to find other gainful employment fail. Jane lands a fashion modeling appearance at a restaurant that becomes a fiasco. Dick ends up applying for unemployment and food stamps, while Jane's wealthy parents, rather than help, advise them to use this experience positively as a life lesson.
Unable to come up with any other solution to their problems, Dick and Jane turn to a life of crime. They make an effort to select their victims judiciously, robbing the telephone company, for instance, which makes customers in line cheer. In time, Dick and Jane weigh their guilty consciences against their needs, trying to get their old lives back and keep out of jail.

Tags: comedy, humor, entertaining, stupid

Review:
But it moves quickly, is a parody on timely issues and has some of the best physical acting you'll ever see.Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni work very well together.
The film, by far from my favorite Carrey movie will definitely be added to my collection for not only Carrey's comedic stylings, but also for its good acting (Baldwin, Leoni) and message.Although I never did see the original, the present day story hits home with current collapses of major corporations such as Enron, Worldcom, and many others.
Although this updated script seemed a bit unfinished it was definitely worth the $6.00 ticket.Teà Leoni, while at times was a bit hard to swallow made a good match for her high energy movie spouse, Jim Carrey.
He counts with two actors that are popular to present this new installment in a funny way, Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni in the main roles.Poor Dick finds out in the worst way the job he held has just disappeared and must face reality.
He is a dynamo in the film and turns the situation Dick is facing into fun, in his own way.Tea Leoni, is equally suited to play Jane, the travel agent who suddenly sees all those comforts she was used to, disappear, and must adapt to her new circumstances.
Ms. Leoni and Mr. Carrey do some funny things together, making the film look much better than what could have been.
The supporting players, mainly Alec Baldwin and Richard Jenkins make good contributions to the film."Fun with Dick and Jane" is a typical example of those holiday themed films the studios love to unload at the end of the year..
All in all it was a fun movie that is worth watching if one really wants a good laugh..
Carrey is, thankfully, as hyperbolic as the character of Dick will let him be and Jane isn't as complicated a role for Leoni to fall on.
In a year dominated by comedy-remake stinkers like the Honeymooners and Bewitched, Dick and Jane is one of the better movies of the year to watch.
If you want a good movie to watch and understand a little bit of corporate history, I recommend Dick and Jane for you..
The first 15 minutes (Dick's ascent) are really very, very funny - that's Jim Carrey at his best.The movie's best part is when you see Dick and his wife falling all the way to level where survival is really a struggle - this is actually very moving.
This is a dream coupling that should be repeated in more light comedies the way William Powell & Myrna Loy were paired in The Thin Man series.I found this remake head and shoulders above the original because it had far more energy and there was more 'sympatico' in the match of personalities of Dick & Jane.
So now, he has tackled a remake (of a comedy no less), and the results as per the last few years, are mixed at best.Carrey is Dick, an employee at Globodyne (read: Enron) who is promoted just in time to help sail the company into oblivion on television.
The rest of the cast has little to no screen time, or are simply silly supporting characters that just feel like excess waste in the entire scheme of things.For all of it's faults, the film is a worth while watch.
Jim Carrey is a particular brand of humour and I personally think he's a great actor (Eternal Sunshine, for example).However, this movie is presumably intended to be nothing more than a Jim Carrey vehicle, so be aware straight off that if you don't think his style of comedy is funny, you will sit stony-faced throughout this film, as it has NOTHING else to recommend it.Even if you do like Carrey's comedy, I am not sure you will find this film amusing.
However, surprisingly, Jim Carrey does this sort of comedy very well for someone whose movies never include that type of humor.
'Fun with Dick and Jane' is a poorly constructed, uneven comedy that could have easily been one of Carrey's best, yet sits way below the line of expectations.
Fun With Dick and Jane Living in the comfortable suburban life, Dick Harper (Carrey) and Jane Harper (Leoni) are looking forward to a spectacular future when Dick gets a promotion at his corporate job.
With no food and practically nothing in their house, Dick and Jane turn to robbery and crime to pay their bills.I'm sure the everybody involved in the production of this movie knows there's a good movie in here somewhere, but nobody seems to find it.In a world filled with remakes, sequels, and sequels to remakes, here comes Fun with Dick and Jane, a frantic, discordant remake that only stays as passable due to Carrey's wacky and cheery sense of comedy.
He does his best to keep the material light and funny, but he falls short unfortunately.The major problem is Dick and Jane doesn't have the timing or goofiness to work as slapstick, and isn't clever enough to work as satire.
There were loose ends with the writing, for example, it seems as though one of the major conflicts was the indictment of Jim Carrey's character DIck Harper, but the writers never follow up that particular conflict.
Basically the story is weak and mostly unfunny, but Carrey saves a few scenes with his physical humor, but honestly, Jim Carrey wasn't very funny in this movie, and Tea Leone might as well have been there just for her appearance because she wasn't funny either.
With a cast who seemed to enjoy making the film, I think this was over all a funny movie to watch and would recommend it.7/10.
Dick and Jane Harper (Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni) wind up on the unemployment line when the corporation Dick works for is caught in a corruption scandal, and after desperately and unsuccessfully trying to find jobs, the duo turns to crime in order to get them out of poverty.I've always been a fan of Jim Carrey.
I laugh a lot, and Jim Carrey uses one of the forgotten comedy techniques: the physical humor.
Jim is a wonderful and versatile actors nowadays, he can be the funniest man in movies like this one or Ace Ventura (when he takes his humor to the limit), have an excellent contained comedy (as Eternal sunshine of the Spotlees Mind) or a surprising dramatic actor (Thruman Show or Man in the Moon).
I wouldn't recommend full price admission at the theater, but a matinée is not a total waste on this movie.As usual Alec Baldwin puts in a trooper supporting role as the slimy CEO of the company that puts the screws to Carrey's character.
Tea Leoni did the same with Jane, who was an elegant woman from an aristocratic family that had never worked in the original movie, in a simple stressed clerk that hates her job.
This movie has a good mix of typical Jim Carey humor with some modern day adult issues that many Americans can relate to.
Alec Baldwin is also good as the seedy CEO of Dick's company.A great deal of the movie is physical comedy, which Carrey handles wonderfully.
Being a fan of Jim Carrey, and seeing that his last major comedy was Bruce Almighty in 2003, I thought the time was right for his next big performance.The acting was good, but a number of the jokes seemed forced and undeveloped, sometimes lacking spark.
Dick (Jim Carrey) works for a big company in corporate America.
I really liked what the movie was about and I really thought the movie was actually pretty creative and unique.Jim Carrey is good in "Fun with Dick and Jane" but not great.
But on Jim Carrey's scale for comedy, this film ranks as his best comedy (besides Liar Liar) and he plays his role as Dick Harper perfectly.
Leoni and Carrey had on screen chemistry which helped make the film and their relationship seem more believable.While this film is rather silly and fun, it does attempt to take on or address some serious issues that seem to be happening more and more in today's society like greedy corporate CEOs robbing their workers out of money.
The movie never gets to serious (which I think is good) but at times the silliness does get a bit too much as most of Jim Carrey movies do.
They tend to go over the top but luckily here the silliness never gets to the point where you just say this is just so stupid that I can't watch it anymore.My favorite part of the film consisted on short robbery spoofs where Dick and Jane would dress up like characters such as the Beatles, Sonny and Cher and Bill and Hilary Clinton in order to rob them.
I think on a whole this movie provided a very decent amount of laughs and I can safely say it was a very amusing flick.In the end, "Fun with Dick and Jane" seems like a big revenge film for all those people who got screwed over by Enron and Worldcom.
"Fun with Dick and Jane" is one of Jim Carrey's best comedy roles and I was amazed that not only did he star in it but produced the film as well.
Overall a fun movie to see if like Jim Carrey and/or Tea Leoni.
The company, Globodyne where Dick Harper works goes down.His wife, Jane quits her job at a travel agency.So they're both unemployed and desperately need jobs and money.Since that seems to be almost impossible they become criminals.Dean Parisot is the director of Fun with Dick and Jane (2005) and the screenplay was made by Judd Apatow and Nicholas Stoller.It's a remake to the 1977 movie by the same name, which I haven't seen.The funny man Jim Carrey plays the lead of this in many parts hilarious comedy.He makes a great team with the woman that plays his wife, Téa Leoni.What a funny couple!
It sure made me and my family laugh when they tried to kiss with their swollen faces.And many other times.The rest of the cast is very good, as well.Alec Baldwin plays Jack McCallister, the crook of the movie.Richard Jenkins is the boozing Frank Bascombe.Ralph Nader appears as himself.In smaller parts you can see people like Clint Howard (INS agent) and Jason Marsden (Convenience Store Clerk A.J.).This movie is a real treat for the comedy fans.In these days a good comedy seems to be rarer and rarer, unfortunately.But Fun with Dick and Jane gives us some hope..
Another great movie from the A-list comedy genius Jim Carrey who plays Dick Harper who is employed by a company named Globodyne(an obvious crack at energy company,Enron) which is owned by Jack McCallister(Alec Baldwin).His wife,Jane(Tea Leoni) also suffers from financial difficulties.This movie was better and funnier by watching it at home rather than the cinemas.When I watched it at the cinemas,I would have given it a 7 out of 10(average) but when I watched it at home,I realised it was funnier and I decided to give it a 10 out of ten(excellent).Bravo!.
Jim has great timing and has developed into a strong presence on screen.In Fun With Dick And Jane, Jim Carrey gets a great chance to do what he does well -- get stuck in worsening situations that allow him to go farther and farther with his humor.
Jim Carrey and Téa Leoni worked together great, and Alec Baldwin was funny.Anything that can go wrong, goes wrong in this film (in a good way for comedic laughs).
It stars Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni ( I apologise for not being able to add the flick) as Dick and Jane, a happy couple who have everything anybody could want including a Spanish talking son.
Soon, Dick and Jane are fed up and decide that they will get their money back by ANY means necessary.This movie is hilarious feel good fun.
1977's "Fun With Dick and Jane", a serious-comedy about economic hardship coupled with slapstick humor, was ripe for a remake--especially since the financial woes of the mid-'70s seem like an eternity ago.
Jim Carrey plays Steve Martin's role of a stressed out, very unlucky business man in Fun with Dick and Jane, a comedy about misfortunes and tricking your ex-boss/employers.
The film makes fun of Dick and Jane turning into robbers, which really isn't that funny.
The only movie that was left (without a 2 hour wait) was Fun With Dick and Jane.I am not a Jim Carrey fan though I did enjoy his work in The Truman Show.
Others do suffer from dimension envy and I would have liked to have seen Alec Baldwin's character fleshed out a bit more.All in all I think that Fun with Dick and Jane will be one of those movies that people end up renting and being pleasantly surprised.A nice touch is the "special thank you" section of the credits which are worth the price of admission alone..
Jim Carrey is absolutely hilarious as Dick and this movie rocked!
"We might be in a pickle Dick" During the holidays, movies are made for us to laugh, and for us to enjoy ourselves, even if that means seeing funny man Jim Carrey and ladylike Téa Leoni make a fool out of themselves, which sometimes can mean good things.Carrey plays Dick Harper, a successful businessman that works for a highly rated stock and investment company.
That is, until Dick decides that robbing, stealing, and taking money to try and pay off bills and retain their old life gets into their path...Overall, not such a bad movie, but certainly one for the smart businessman.Have fun..
Usual funny man Jim Carrey has lost his comedy mojo, as usual taking things too far just to get a laugh or in this case a possible chuckle.
Another dull remake off the 1977 movie where company man Dick Harper (Carrey)'s company has just sold him out, leaving him and his wife Jane (Leoni) out to hang.
Nothing funny about losing your job, your life savings, and then as a last resort turning to crime using guns and violence etc.Although a few partially amusing moments in this film, it leaves me uneasy since making fun of those criminals who used the likes of Enron to steal billions and then also to try to find something funny about the victims of such a fraud is not my idea of comedy.
This movie was not built around Jim Carrey like so many of his other films are.
Fun with Dick and Jane is bad, this movie should have never been made..
i was such a big fan of Jim carry but after watching fun with dick and Jane, i have started hating Jim carry...the trailer of the movie was very good and it looked liked a promising comedy flick..but the actual movie is simply dumb..the movie gets bore at several points..Jim carry is not looking good, may be he has grown old..and Jane ( cannot remember the actress name ) she is too very horrible..
But since the viewpoint was done wrongly, the robbery part had to be limited.You will enjoy the movie the first 15 minutes (during Jim Carrey's great rise), but to make the problems they had to faced to be more comical since it is a comedy, that is the part that needs a major overhaul.
Fun with Dick and Jane is a solid comedy starring Jim Carrey and Teá Leoni as a couple that lose their jobs and go out to rob stores and do a poor job at it.Pretty solid and funny comedy.
Jim Carey is good and brings to the movie what you expect but it could have been made so much better as it stands its a middle of the park film..
Jim Carrey, Tea Leoni, and director Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest and Home Fries), had a difficult movie to carry with the idea of a comedy about nice people turning to crime after a corporate executive takes off with its money.
Fun with Dick and Jane is a mediocre movie with an average plot, despite a very talented comedic cast.
Worth the look if you are a fan of Carrey or Leoni, but Fun with Dick & Jane is a very mundane comedy.
This is not the greatest comedy I have ever seen, but still so good with great performances, particularly Jim Carrey's.A simple storyline, a couple loses their jobs and they find hard to get another.
And if you like Jim Carrey and his trademark jokes, then you would have a great time.
Dick (Jim Carrey) and Jane Harper (Téa Leoni) are an upwardly mobile suburban couple keeping up with the Joneses.
When he keeps himself more in check, though (and actually acts, rather than trying too hard to be funny) he can put on a pretty good performance, and in "Fun With Dick and Jane" he manages to do that, teamed very effectively with Tea Leoni.What really makes this movie work is not so much the comedy (although it is quite funny at times) but the sympathy you feel for the characters, which - because of the economic troubles in the modern world - is probably even greater today than it was in 2005 when this movie was made.
Somehow the movie lost its sense of fun with that, and the end result was a little too "feel-good," as their plot against McAllister worked perfectly and to the benefit not just of Dick and Jane, but of all the company's former employees.
A Jim Carrey movie that fits in with his other comedies.
Jim Carrey has been known as being a comedy actor doing funny movies such as The Mask, Liar Liar, and Bruce Almighty.
Jim Carrey is back into the comedy as Dick in this hilarious movie.
i think there are some very clever scenes and some bits of the movie looked like it was almost written for Jim Carey.