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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 7934
Released: April 11, 2006 |
| Our Price: $3.34 |
| Used Price: $0.49 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Fun With Dick And Jane provides comic relief alongside a relevant look at today’s corporate scandals. In the film, Dick Harpers’ (Carrey) years of hard work finally pay off when he is promoted to vice president of Globodyne, a worldwide business leader. After exactly one day at his new job, Globodyne is destroyed, leaving him and his loving wife, Jane (Leoni) without financial security. This sudden reversal of fortune has left them both unprepared to give up their comfortable lifestyle and Dick comes up with the brilliant idea of turning to robbery to pay the bills. Utilizing newfound skills, Dick and Jane exact hilarious revenge while teaching big business a lesson.
Description of Fun with Dick and Jane:
Remakes are always a gamble, so it's a pleasant surprise that Fun with Dick and Jane pays off with unexpected dividends. It's as entertaining as the 1977 original starring George Segal and Jane Fonda, and the teaming of Jim Carrey and Téa Leoni makes this a safe bet for comedy fans, in spite of a slapstick screenplay that fails to achieve its fullest potential. Rather than attempt a darkly comedic send-up of the Enron scandal that left thousands of stockholders in financial ruin, director Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest) opts for a lighter, more accessible (read: commercial) satire of corporate greed and cynicism, beginning in the year 2000 when Dick (Carrey) gets a plum promotion as a mega-corporate communications director just as his boss (Alec Baldwin) is preparing to bail out before stock prices plummet. Dick's wife Jane (Leoni) has quit her job as a travel agent, so the corporate bombshell leaves them penniless and desperate, resorting to petty thievery and, eventually, plotting high-stakes revenge against the greedy executives who ruined their lives. As a send-up of financial distress in a ravaged post-Enron economy, Fun with Dick and Jane delivers laughs with just enough pointed humor to give it a strong satirical edge, and Carrey's reliable brand of zaniness is controlled enough to balance nicely with Leoni's more subtle (and woefully underrated) skills as a screen comedienne. And while the "special thanks" end-credits hint at the sharper, more biting satire this might have been, there’s enough fun with Dick and Jane to make this recycled comedy worth a look. --Jeff Shannon
Fun with Dick and Jane Reviews:
Fun with Dick and Jane is hilariously funny! 
2009-10-01 - Fun with Dick and Jane is the funniest movie I have seen in a very long time. Jim Carrey & Tea Leoni are at their best. I wish to thank Amazon for having such a wide selection of movies to choose from with very reasonable prices. I have purchased movies (and books) before this and will continue to.
Dear unemployed peeps, you haven't seen anything yet!
2009-09-14 - Did your dreams disintegrate... few times? Did u lose gas/energy yet??? Can't pay your bills but still hope to? Do you still think that education and honesty are the answer???
Oops, let's laugh at ourselves and join the crowd. Great movie...
Remake Success
2009-08-27 - Remakes are usually not done very well but in this case it went very well. I don't know how you can go wrong with Jim Carrey. Even his dumb movies are great. On the other hand Fun with Dick and Jane was good for its dynamic characters and plot, not for its dumbness.
Fun With Dick andJane
2009-07-01 - This movie is one that I bought, sold at a flea market and bought again. It seems to run with the same theme of my life...unemployment. My employment continuum seems to run with failing businesses. I get a kick out of the antics and I love the plot because I really identify with it. Its like like having the flu, laughing at someone coming down with it, also. Sick? No. Well, I laugh or cry. I choose laugh. I received it a day ahead of when promised. It has kept me laughing with the 4th job loss in as many years. Stimulate the economy? Bail out the middle class!
A fantastic movie!
2009-05-21 - My wife and I saw this movie in the theater and thought it was one of the funniest movies we had seen in a long time. The movie is a remake but regardless it is put together great. The movie had even more meaning to me recently when the company I work for tanked, not at all like the company in the movie and I was out of a job. "Must have been at the right place at the wrong time" is one of the lines you hear in the movie and boy was that right. The movie is full of funny scenes, lots of humor and no matter what is going on in your life this is the type of movie that can make you smile and laugh no matter how many times you watch it. I do recommend this movie. It's a must see!
