Fun With Dick and Jane (2005)

The movie FUN WITH DICK AND JANE is a remake of the
1977 movie of the same name, that starred George Segal
and Jane Fonda. This time, Jim Carrey and Téa
Leoni play Dick and Jane. Alec Baldwin (no doubt the
most talented actor of the Baldwin acting clan) is well
cast as the corrupt corporate CEO Jack McCallister.

In the post-Enron America we live in now, this skeptical
and satirical plot line is applicable, and suitably
timed. I found it disappointing that it did not do better
at the box office in its theatrical run. I only hope
that it will find its well-deserved audience in the
DVD market. I will say that a possible reason was the
awful trailer for Fun with Dick and Jane, which did
not do the movie any justice.

Dick Harper (Carrey) is promoted to VP of Communications
for the Globodyne Corporation. On the way up the elevator
to that meeting on the mythical "51st Floor"
Dick sings a hilarious rendition of R Kelly's "I
Believe I Can Fly", along with the cheesily composed
elevator-music version.

Dick accepts the VP position, and is immediately thrust
onto a TV show called MoneyLife to announce Globodyne's
quarterly projections. The company folds, while CEO
Jack McCallister unloads his stocks and gets away scott-free.
Dick is left out there to take the embarrassment, while
all the employees are now unemployed, with no pension
fund to speak of.

Jane has already quit her thankless job as a travel
agent, assured of her husband's terrific new spot in
the company, so now they are both jobless.

In the comedy madness that ensues, Dick and Jane have
to try to make ends meet any way they can! Their lawn
is repossessed; they have to shower using the lawn sprinklers,
and pay their nanny in appliances from their kitchen!
Dick loses his wallet in a crowd of illegal immigrants
waiting for work, and gets rounded up in the bunch by
the INS. He is forced to make a run across the border
back into the USA at night, in a hysterically funny
scene! Jane is there to pick him up across the border,
but her face is swelled after a paid cosmetics test
that went wrong!

Then they try some nefarious ways at bringing home an
income, until they decide to go after Jack McCallister
himself, who has put this whole thing comfortably behind
him, with all his many millions of net worth.

A Jim Carrey film is always enjoyable. This one is especially
fun, and you will be pleasantly surprised at how good
it truly is. Lots of laugh-out-loud moments, with an
enjoyably twisty, energetic plotline. Téa Leoni
keeps up with Jim Carrey's comic timing, the chemistry
between them truly tangible.

If you have enjoyed any of Jim Carrey's comedies in
the past, you will most surely enjoy this one!