Fun With Dick And Jane DVD

Advantages: JIm Carrey, good acting for a weak script
Disadvantages: Not very funny, storyline was a tad bit boring

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Advantages: Funny, Good Twist
Disadvantages: None

...Jim Carey's latest effort - Fun with Dick and Jane. The film focuses on the Dick Harper (Jim Carey) and his wife Jane Harper (Jane Harper), who have it all, a cute child, new large house and maid to look after the house & child and a nice BMW on the drive. Jane works as a PA (a job which she doesn't overly) and Dick for a large power supply firm. The main plot starts when dick gets promoted to Vice President of Communication (thus realising his ...
...spend more time with their child. What Dick doesn't know is that he has only been promoted to act as the fall guy on the US equivalent of the 'Money Programme', as, unknown to him, the company chief executives have been falsifying the accounts to raise the share prices. As he gets quizzed about why the bosses have sold off their shares the shares price slumps to nothing and the company goes bust, leaving the Harpers financially high and dry. Initially ... Read review

Advantages: Great for 12 year old boys
Disadvantages: Poor attempt at satire, just doesn't work.

Dick Harper suddenly finds himself unemployed after being fairly high up in the pecking order in a big company. He has to find a way to survive and maintain his life style. So, in cahoots with his wife, Jane, he plots his revenge on the CEO who was responsible for the circumstances that led to his job loss. They start on a comical, somewhat slapstick campaign to follow in the footsteps of a comedy Bonnie and Clyde and go on the rampage. First its ...
...graduate to richer pickings. This is a very poor remake of the 1977 version of this film which starred George Segal and Jane Fonda. This doesn't work as black comedy as it is meant to be and it isn't clever enough to be a farce. It ends up as a badly tacked together collection of slapstick comedy woven around Jim Carrey and his amazing ability to pull ridiculous faces. There is a quite bizaare fascination with grass and lawns in this film. The 'joke' ... Read review

Advantages: witty, subtly dirty!
Disadvantages: abrupt ending

...Fun With Dick and Jane, made in 1977 is the original of the recent remake starring Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni. This version stars George Segal and Jane Fonda in the title roles of, erm, Dick and Jane, who are a fairly rich, middle class suburban couple, to whom appearances are everything. So when Dick loses her job and it is revealed that he is teetering on the edge of a big pile of debt, they start to try and live as frugally as possible, in order to make ends meet. Dick starts to collect benefits, and then fiddling the unemployment agency by working (in the cast at the opera), whereas Jane uses her assets and takes a 'modelling' job, and then asks her parents for a loan, and both ventures have disastrous, but amusing results. Then the two go and apply for a loan, and just as the manager hands over their £1000 dollars, some robbers burst... Read review

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