One is a nice guy driven to the end of his tether by his wife’s insistence on cheating on him with a black dwarf, the other is essentially Clint Eastwood. In which Carrey plays a man with multiple personalities. Tommy Lee Jones, in particular, was so unsettled by Carrey’s constant scene-stealing that, when he ran into Carrey at a restaurant during filming, he could only muster the immortal line “I cannot sanction your buffoonery” by way of a greeting. Batman Forever (1995)Ĭarrey’s Riddler is the sole redeeming feature of this lurid disappointment – his mania is underpinned by a tangible sense of hurt – and this might be why he found himself on the outs with his co-stars. Although Carrey gives it everything (director Chuck Russell claims that his rubbery face was worth a million dollars in special effects), the film itself is essentially a loose collection of catchphrases where a plot should be. The impact of Carrey’s breakthrough year – in which he also released Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Dumb and Dumber – was so seismic that people tend to forget how soggy and formless The Mask is. If it wasn’t for the subsequent Netflix series, which was thorough enough to put the failures of this film into relief, this would be much higher on the list. It is dark and occasionally genuinely scary, and Carrey’s ad-libs aren’t nearly as overt. As the villainous Count Olaf, Carrey is just as buried under prosthetics as he was in The Grinch, but the subject matter is more fitting for his sensibilities. Slightly better was Carrey’s adaptation of Daniel Handler’s kids’ novels. Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) The good doctor would have been appalled. we learn that the Grinch’s parents were swingers, see the Grinch naked and discover that Christine Baranski really, really wants to have sex with the Grinch. But the weird horniness of Carrey’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas might also be to blame. Have you ever wondered why no one makes live-action Dr Seuss adaptations any more? It is primarily because the Seuss estate hated Mike Myers’s The Cat in the Hat so much that they banned them.
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