Movies starring Jim Carrey
When I watch a comedy like The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, I find myself wondering whether plot and character development should be considered in an evaluation of the production. After all, the movie has been made with the intention of making peop...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-03-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Don Scardino
Cast: Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi, Olivia Wilde, ...
The summer blockbuster season of 2013 is over, so what do we get as we move into the dog days of August? Yet another superhero movie. If there was ever any question about their ubiquitous multiplex presence, this answers it. A sequel to the breath-...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-08-16
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: ACTION/COMEDY
Director: Jeff Wadlow
Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Donald Faison, Clark Duke, ...
There's a little Roald Dahl in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, and that leads one to wonder what a twisted director like Danny DeVito (Dahl's Matilda) or Tim Burton (Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) could have made out of ...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-12-17
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY/ADVENTURE
Director: Brad Silberling
Cast: Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, Jude Law, ...
While watching Liar Liar, it occurred to me that the chief problem with this film is that it has a script. If Jim Carrey had been unleashed without such silly, incidental constraints as plot and dialogue, who knows where things might have gone? A...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-03-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Tom Shadyac
Cast: Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Justin Cooper, ...
Without a doubt, a reaction to comedy is one of the most subjective forms of human expression. What one person finds hilarious, another may view as tedious. For every person who sits through Dumb and Dumber stone-faced and unamused, another will ...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-12-22
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Nudity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Paul Giamatti, ...
I never thought it could happen. Jim Carrey (star of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective) upstaged -- and not once, but twice! While it's true that The Mask is another vehicle for the rubber-featured modern-day amalgamation of Jerry Lewis and the Three St...
U.S. Release Date: 1994-07-29
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: ACTION/COMEDY
Director: Charles Russell
Cast: Jim Carrey, Peter Riegert, Peter Greene, ...
After taking a break to become involved in the production of the small coming-of-age drama Outside Providence, the Farrelly Brothers are at it again. Their 1998 hit, There's Something About Mary, will forever be known for breaking the semen barrie...
U.S. Release Date: 2000-06-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity, Violence)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Cast: Jim Carrey, Richard Jenkins, Michael Bowman, ...
Since this is a thriller, there must be a twist. One goes into a movie like The Number 23 with this expectation. However, not only is the twist telegraphed early but it is presented in a clumsy and unconvincing manner. Other films have employed ...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-02-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman, ...
In the marketing material for Sonic the Hedgehog, Paramount’s synopsis begins with the following words: “Based on the global blockbuster videogame franchise from Sega…” Little more needs to be said. In the grand tradition of other moti...
U.S. Release Date: 2020-02-14
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
Director: Jeff Fowler
Cast: Jim Carrey, Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, ...
Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is the star of the most popular show in the history of television. For 10,909 days, it has been on the air, using 5000 cameras to show every moment in every day of the life of one man. The public loves it -- there ...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-06-05
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Profanity)
Genre: FANTASY
Director: Peter Weir
Cast: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris, ...