Movies starring Jim Carrey
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, ...
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, ...
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, ...
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, ...
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, ...
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, ...
At first glance, Yes Man appears to be yet another high-concept Jim Carrey comedy. After all, the premise can be summed up in a sentence: "A character played by Carrey in 'zany form' must say 'yes' to every proposal." Over the years, we have gott...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-12-19
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Peyton Reed
Cast: Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper, ...
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, ...
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, ...
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, ...