Film is Pwn

After viewing what is sadly not the final film in Jim Carrey’s career, I felt I could not write a review.  A review has many words while only single words were coming to mind: Dreadful, Nauseating, Unforgivable… but I will give it a shot, but where to start…

Jim Carrey basically gives the same performance he gave in many of his early films making faces and acting zany, but he lacks the energy of those older roles and times seems tired.  I would say the plot is laughable, but neither I nor any of the people in the room were laughing.  Anything that happens seems to happen solely to further the action or to provide an awkward moment for Carrey to act out (Such as the hilarious scene where he receives a blow job from an old woman who is kind enough to remove her dentures – wait, that wasn’t funny – well now we are back to nauseating again…), rather than following any logical progression.  I could be totally off on this because the character development was non existent (luckily the characters were kind enough to announce their feelings and the feelings of other characters fairly regularly.

Then there is Jim Carrey’s love interest played by the beautiful and talented Zooey Deschanel.  Why?  Putting aside the fact that the age difference makes Carrey’s performance seem like creepy uncle, I adore Zooey Deschanel and after seeing this abomination all I could say is why Zoeey, why?  This is not a knock on her acting, she did what she could with what she was given.  All in all, this was what felt like hours and hours of my life I will never get back.  Terrible, just terrible.