Jim Carrey is kind of a cool actor. He loves to stretch his limits with movies like The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and 23. Not saying they were great, but it shows range and risk-taking ability. He also knows what his fans want and he will usually deliver. But, his pay-the-bills movies are starting to become formulaic.
In Liar Liar, he plays a lawyer who can’t lie. In Bruce Almighty he plays a weather man with god-like powers. In Yes Man he plays a guy who can say “no.” Haven’t seen it, but I’m guessing he has a job in approval.
In case the Jim Carrey machine ever runs out of ideas, here are a few.
-Jim Carrey plays a food critic who can channel the voices of the spirits of the animals whose meat he has eaten. Hilarity ensues with Carrey’s impersonations of cows and pigs with a vegan/peta message during the feel-good ending. It’s called You Are What You Eat.
-Jim Carrey plays a plastic surgeon who’s hands get run over by a patient who he gave a botched boob job to. Now, every time he performs a surgery, instead of improving their outer beauty, he improves (you guessed it) their inner beauty. Hilarity ensues when stuck up models with mangled noses start feeding the homeless. Of course it ends with a message about how society is superficial. It’s called Skin Deep.
-Jim Carrey plays an Gold Medal winning Olympic athlete who’s low on cash so he campaigns to make the Olympics happen every year, all year round. Hilarity ensues when Jim Carrey pitches the idea to network brass in a speedo and swim cap. Ends with message about sports losing their purity to corporations. Called De-Cash-Alon.
That’s all I got for now.
