Fun With Dick and Jane When I saw a reviewer say: “What follows is a kind of modern Depression comedy - a bit like /Sullivan’s Travels/, set in Silicon Valley. Dick eventually sinks to day labour with Mexican illegals. Jane becomes a guinea pig for dangerous pharmaceutical testing.” I honestly thought Jim Carrey might be going for the jugular with Fun with Dick and Jane. Its good—maybe “great” by Hollywood standards for political satire—but no jugulars were opened. A clue: Ralph Nader made a cameo appearance as himself. But they missed so much potential fun… You can’t really expect that much from guys like Jim Carrey, Ralph Nader and Alec Baldwin—but for their collective depth of character combined with the financing/distribution milieu of Hollywood they did a decent job. This is a semi-farcical mass-appeal movie trying and largely succeeding to satirize much of the recent corporate sleaze—so cut them some slack, pay your $7 and laugh a little. I’ve been relatively nice up to now right? So here’s what Carrey et al didn’t portray:
Now, I know what you’re thinking—where’s the humor? Can this be a comedy? How could Carrey et al sell something like this? You haven’t heard the proposed punch line: The US dollar loses its status as the world’s reserve currency, a pandemic hits and The Man, having found out he’s not The Stud he thought he was, loses His collective mind and nukes Iran, Syria and any other enemy of Israel as His psychotic attempt to restore some semblance of familiarity to the world. Then to The Man’s surprise nukes that had been, over decades of His open borders policy, smuggled into the urban centers of the US and Europe suddenly go BOOM. Not even the talking heads are left to tell us about how “hateful” the people who did this are. All of the above characters join in the fun and have a good laugh while finding some bitter-sweet meaning to life. It’s at once a tear-jerker, uplifting and side-splitting comedy. Comments:2
Posted by Matthew on Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:02 | # Hilarious!!! Can I add an alternative ending to your story…Man finds himself at the end as a greeter at Walmart 4
Posted by Jim Giles on Sat, 24 Dec 2005 22:26 | # I’m not much on comedy but I think it would make a great drama. Post a comment:
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Posted by Alex Zeka on Fri, 23 Dec 2005 11:09 | #
Oh, I don’t know. Add a few burning elevator secens, and it might be a surprise hit.