Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

John Brooks This one's pretty good. It's no comedy classic, but it holds up well, and delivers. The situation depicted as the main narrative in itself is funny enough, the acting's good, there's a bit of a social commentary on the frailty of capitalist America but carried out humorously...The only thing is of course as always with this sort of fairly forgettable bit of cinema is the plot is never original enough to stick with people, and that the developments are just too ambitious and seem half-thought out, almost rushed in parts, but overall that part still manages about well enough.It's pretty good. It's fun, pretty funny at times, and it works at what it does.

lagudafuad Although i had some laughs and i did, this movie is not meant to be made at all as it lacks all the needed things to make it something you like to see again or want to ask someone to go see.The movie is based on Fun with Dick and Jane by Gerald Gaiser.About Dick who had a high-paying job; he and his wife Jane (Tea Leoni) live in an expensive house in the suburbs, with their son Billy and housekeeper, Blanca (Gloria Garayua).Their life crashes head-on into reality when the firm Dick works for turns out to have been losing money but have been lying to everyone to make matters worse they made Dick the fall guy for some of their dirty dealings.Now broke and with no money and losing everything Dick and Jane start getting involved in anything they can even using guns to make money.The problem with this movie is the script and then the screenplay, some events in the movie are too ridiculous to be even considered that there were added at all. If you now add that to the acting skills of Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni and Alec Baldwin you have great actors doing a good job acting some really stupid scenes.While filming the coffee shop robbery scene, Leoni seriously injured her shoulder while sliding on the counter. During the scene where Carrey jumps into the ceiling and hangs above the bank desk, when he was stepping down, he accidentally fell and smacked his face on the floor. This painful blooper made it into the film.Fun with Dick and Jane came out after Series of Unfortunate Events, now series was a wonderful movie while this just fell through the cracks.Dean Parisot directed this movie and he will also be directing RED 2.Now this movie actually was a financial success, and i did laugh enough times to enjoy it, but as i said i can't recommend it.

sddavis63 Jim Carrey isn't at the top of my list of favourite actors. He's funny, but way too often he simply goes overboard and it seems as though he's trying to be too funny - with the end result being that he isn't funny, he's just irritating. When he keeps himself more in check, though (and actually acts, rather than trying too hard to be funny) he can put on a pretty good performance, and in "Fun With Dick and Jane" he manages to do that, teamed very effectively with Tea Leoni.What really makes this movie work is not so much the comedy (although it is quite funny at times) but the sympathy you feel for the characters, which - because of the economic troubles in the modern world - is probably even greater today than it was in 2005 when this movie was made. Dick is a corporate executive on the rise, who as the movie opens gets his big promotion to Vice President of a big company, only to be left stammering incoherently in a television interview when the company goes under while he's on the air. He and Jane find themselves in desperate circumstances, unable to find work, having to sell everything they own, finally faced with the foreclosure of their house. This was funny and somewhat sad all at the same time. You could laugh at what was happening on screen and at the same time really understand their plight, while at the same time hoping you never have to face what they're facing. Finally, with literally no other options, Dick and Jane take up robbing stores and banks to try to save their home. Everything worked very well up to that point in the movie.I didn't like the revenge angle, though. Eventually, this turned into Dick and Jane finding a way to make Jack McAllister (Alec Baldwin) - who had been the president of the company Dick worked for - pay for his dishonesty. Somehow the movie lost its sense of fun with that, and the end result was a little too "feel-good," as their plot against McAllister worked perfectly and to the benefit not just of Dick and Jane, but of all the company's former employees. It was nice to see McAllister pay up, but to me it didn't really fit too well with what I was feeling about the movie up to that point.This is quite a fun ride for a little over an hour, then the remainder of the movie gets a bit bogged down with this plan directed against McAllister. What really makes this work, though, is that Dick and Jane are truly likable characters whose desperate circumstances you really do care about. They were fine performances from Carrey and Leoni. (7/10)

wes-connors "When Dick Harper (Jim Carrey) is terminated as Globodyne Corporation's VP of Communications, he assures his wife, Jane (Téa Leoni), he'll find another job in no time. Months later, their lawn is repossessed, Jane has sold her body to science, and Dick's career as a day laborer ends with his deportation to Mexico. Madder than ever and not going to take it anymore, Dick and Jane turn to the fastest-growing sector in the white-collar job market - armed robbery - as they become upscale suburban Robin Hoods, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor… namely themselves," according to the Columbia Pictures synopsis.This re-make of the 1977 film starring George Segal and Jane Fonda is surprisingly toned down. The original wasn't a classic - but it was pleasant and somewhat daring, with "politically incorrect" humor and a subversive subtext. Here, the latter is no longer subversive; the former is tamed. If you've seen both films, compare the leading man's botched robbery scene. They've altered Mr. Segal's struggle with the gun in his pants to Mr. Carrey's struggle with his hood - resulting in no "condom scene". And, nothing equals Ms. Fonda's trendy "toilet scene". We should have had more "Fun with Dick and Jane" than this trifle.**** Fun with Dick and Jane (12/21/05) Dean Parisot ~ Jim Carrey, Tea Leoni, Richard Jenkins, Alec Baldwin