Movies starring Carrey
Certain ideas are excellent material for short features on programs like Saturday Night Live or In Living Color. Properly padded, it's possible that a few of those premises could even make passable 1/2 hour television programs. However, stretchin...
U.S. Release Date: 1993-02-04
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Mature Themes)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Tom Shadyac
Cast: Jim Carrey, Courtney Cox, Noble Willingham, ...
It's lighter, brighter, funnier, faster-paced, and a whole lot more colorful than before. There's a new actor underneath the cape, a new girlfriend on his arm, and a new partner by his side. The director is different and the composer has changed....
U.S. Release Date: 1995-06-16
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, ...
Are a few good laughs worth wasting 100 minutes of time? For me, the answer is a resounding "No!" There are far more promising avenues to explore in the quest for laughter than the dead-end represented by Jim Carrey's latest endeavor, Bruce Almig...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-05-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Tom Shadyac
Cast: Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston, Morgan Freeman
Review based on a 2-D (standard) screening. If I ever wanted to know what A Christmas Carol might look like as a high-end video game, I need search no farther than this motion picture, which takes the Dickens classic and converts it into somethi...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-11-06
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Scary Images)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Jim Carrey, Gay Oldman, Colin Firth, ...
Sometimes, a movie just can't live up to its advertising campaign (or its name, for that matter). Dumb and Dumber is one such case. Take the newspaper ad, for example, filled with all those fake, witty quotes. That's rather clever (although not o...
U.S. Release Date: 1994-12-16
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Peter Farrelly
Cast: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, ...
What propels filmmakers to make a sequel to a 20-year old film? Is it nostalgia for the brand of comedy that characterized the original? Is it desperation on everyone's part to revive flagging careers? Or is it Hollywood's acceptance that recogniz...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-11-14
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Peter & Bobby Farrelly
Cast: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Rachel Melvin, ...
A unique romantic comedy, unfettered by the normal expectations of the genre, is a rare and wondrous thing. That's precisely what director Michel Gondry, working from a screenplay by Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adapatation), delivers. ...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-03-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drugs)
Genre: ROMANCE/FANTASY
Director: Michel Gondry
Cast: Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, ...
Have you ever gone through the painful experience of watching someone who was once good at something try to recapture their past glory? It can be in sports, acting, writing, or any number of vocations. That's the dubious opportunity Fun with Dick...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-12-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Dean Parisot
Cast: Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni, Alec Baldwin, ...
Admittedly, it's been about 35 years since I was reader of Dr. Seuss, but my memories of his books are that they're short and economical with words. Neither of those descriptions applies to this theatrical version of Horton Hears a Who!, which has...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-03-14
MPAA Rating: "G" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino
Cast: (voices) Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett, ...
For more than three decades, How the Grinch Stole Christmas has been a holiday season television staple. The 22-minute cartoon, based on the book by Dr. Seuss and narrated by Boris Karloff, has enchanted multiple generations of children (not to me...
U.S. Release Date: 2000-11-17
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: FAMILY
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Jim Carrey, Taylor Momsen, Jeffrey Tambor, ...