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[sadie65]

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MOVIE REVIEW'Dick and Jane' retread as flat as the firstThe premise offered tremendous potential to satirize consumerism, but movie fails to deliverBy Rene RodriguezKNIGHT RIDDERIN "FUN With Dick and Jane," despair means having to turn in your BMW and hocking the plasma TV set.
The movie is a remake of the 1977 George Segal-Jane Fonda vehicle that was a staple of late-night TV in the pre-infomercial era, and it's just as lousy and dull-witted as the original was. The premise -- an upper middle-class couple (Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni) turn to crime to maintain their lifestyle after losing their jobs -- has tremendous potential as a satire of our consumerist society and our obsession with status.
But the movie, which has been wanly directed by Dean Parisot ("Galaxy Quest") from a script by Nicholas Stoller and Judd Apatow ("The 40 Year-Old Virgin"), has all the depth of an episode of "Joey." The picture's primary interest is giving Carrey a stage for his trademark over-the-top stylings, but even there, "Dick and Jane" disappoints, since the actor spends most of the picture in strangely muted mode. There's only one scene in which Carrey goes on an improvisational tear (spitting out, among other things, an amusing homage to the Styx song "Mr. Roboto"), and it's no accident that happens to be the funniest moment in the entire film.The rest of "Dick and Jane," which co-stars Alec Baldwin as Dick's corrupt, Ken Lay-ish boss, sputters along like most Carrey comedies, requiring otherwise intelligent people to momentarily turn into morons for the sake of a gag (like Dick's short-lived gig as a department store greeter, where he does his job a little too enthusiastically). Dick and Jane's crime spree is too innocuous to take advantage of the premise's subversive edge (how far would you go to pay for that outdoor hot tub you've been dreaming about?) and one sequence, in which Dick passes himself off as a migrant worker out of desperation, finds new lows in the term "cheap laughs."
It's all passable as, say, in-flight entertainment, but in the craze and daze of the holidays, "Fun With Dick and Jane" (which somehow managed to cost $100 million to make) is certainly not worth going out of your way for.
MOVIE REVIEW
• WHAT: "Fun With Dick and Jane"
• STARRING: Jim Carrey, Tea Leoni, Alec Baldwin, Angie Harmon
• RATING: PG-13 (vulgar language, adult themes)
• RUNNING TIME: 1 hour, 30 minutes
• WHERE: Opens today in area theaters
• GRADE: D+
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[jimmy19029]

I actually liked the 1977 original. But I'm getting more than a bit weary of Hollywood thinking they have to remake EVERYTHING.

[Abitaman]

King Kong was pretty good, this time around-ERIC