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Today (Wednesday) may tell who's bigger at the box office -- King Kong or Jim Carrey. Carrey's Fun With Dick & Jane, about a married couple who turn to crime after the Carrey character loses his job in an Enron-like debacle, opens against the second week of the giant-ape movie, which is a long way from becoming the giant box-office hit that many analysts had expected. But while King Kong generated mostly ecstatic reviews from critics, Fun With Dick & Jane is receiving the same kind of bland reaction that its title seems to summon up. "Kind of funny," is the judgment of Manohla Dargis in the New York Times. "There's fun -- but not nearly enough -- in Fun With Dick & Jane, writes Jami Bernard in the New York Daily News. Ann Hornaday in the Washington Post clearly likes the movie but gives it no rave review, concluding: "Even as an instant forgettable, Fun With Dick & Jane has lived up to its title: It's fun, and that's fine." Michael Sragow in the Baltimore Sun, while allowing that some scenes "detonate theater-quaking belly laughs," concludes that in the end, the movie amounts to nothing more than "a liberal-concept comedy." and a "surprising failure" for the director, David Parisot. The film does evoke a few caustic reviews, among them, Lou Lumenick's in the New York Post, who writes that it is "as much fun as a root canal. ... the last of a series of overpriced, mindless bombs greenlighted this year by Sony Pictures head Amy Pascal." (Several critics suggest that if you've seen the commercial for the movie, you've seen all the really funny scenes.) |
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