Fun with Dick and Jane 2005

Critics score:
29 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: In Fun with Dick and Jane, despair means having to turn in your BMW and hocking the plasma TV set. Read more

Allison Benedikt, Chicago Tribune: It's inoffensive material with few laughs and even fewer jabs. And when the end credits thank guys such as Jeffrey Skilling and Bernie Ebbers, you'll swear it should be the other way around. Read more

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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Would somebody, please, find the right comic vehicle for Tea Leoni? Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The desperation isn't made real, and yet their robberies are all too real. It's in this weird zone, not weird enough for drama, not wild enough for comedy, and only Carrey's moment-by-moment zaniness squeaks out any laughs at all. Read more

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Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Finally, some escapist fun to get us through the holidays. Read more

Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: They are funny bits, but there are too few of them. Fun With Dick and Jane just isn't all that fun. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: As satires go, this is a drive-by shooting that tickles. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: The film's overall frantic tone can't disguise the fact that the picture offers little delivery for all its buildup. Everyone involved with this production must have known there was a good movie somewhere, but no one's been quite able to find it. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Most of it plays out as sub-medium-grade farce, but Carrey has some funny calisthenic bits where he appears to have the pliability of a rubber toy. Read more

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Here is a revised primer: See Jim Carrey ham it up. See Tea Leoni have appealing fun with scant material. See studio execs digging into their vault for old material. See ... oh, why not just wait for the DVD. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Fun With Dick & Jane offers the faintly depressing sight of Jim Carrey, like Dick Harper, doing whatever it takes to earn his supper. Read more

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: There's nothing like a bloated Hollywood misfire to teach us a lesson in corporate excess. Read more

Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: Fun With Dick and Jane is the best kind of remake: It takes a dated film most people haven't seen or vaguely remember and updates the basic premise in a way that plugs it into here and now. Read more

Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: The title holds true for about 20 minutes or so in the middle of director Dean Parisot's loose remake of the 1977 Jane Fonda-George Segal vehicle ... Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: Remakes, which rarely make sense, are even more questionable when what's being remade was underwhelming to begin with. Read more

Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: See Jim Carrey mug for the camera. Mug, Jim, mug! Read more

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Dick and Jane thereby emerge comically and sentimentally as the unlikeliest of collectivist crusaders. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Dick and Jane are fun enough, just not nearly as much fun as they should have been. This is a comedy that's all about the message. It needed to be more about the laughs. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: In striving for inspiration, Fun with Dick and Jane discovers moments of cleverness, but there aren't enough of them, nor are they sustained. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie avoids the rich opportunities to plop Carrey and Leoni into the middle of a political lampoon, and turns to tired slapstick, wigs, false beards, 'funny' bank holdups, and so on. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The movie starts off silly, soon becomes funny and then skyrockets into irrepressible hilarity. Read more

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Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: The title Fun With Dick and Jane should be considered creative advertising rather than an audience guarantee. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: This kind of zany stuff is Carrey's forte, and so it is for Leoni, too. They make a grand pair, and their willingness to look stupid -- not to mention risking injury with various leaps and pratfalls -- gives the movie humour and energy. Read more

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Claudia Puig, USA Today: The movie's closing dedication to corporate scandals, including Enron, Tyco, Adelphia and WorldCom, is funny. Too bad the film itself isn't as clever. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: The rare Hollywood remake that, by daring to reinterpret its source material within a fresh political context, actually has a reason to exist; the results, if not exactly subtle, are still fun enough to fend off any charges of titular false advertising. Read more

Mark Holcomb, Village Voice: This Dick & Jane is precisely the kind of social-problem comedy you'd expect from well-intentioned millionaires unaccustomed to putting their money where their mouths are. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: It's fun, and that's fine. Read more