A guy challenges himself to say “yes” to everything for an entire year.
Let’s start this by the disclaimers: I’m a Jim Carey fan. Every movie he does, I feel must watch. So, obviously, I had to watch his latest movie, Yes Man.
Now, I know that he doesn’t make “haha-funny” movies anymore. Since “The Truman Show“, he seems to be going more into “thinkful/comedy” style. So don’t expect big laughs all the time like in Ace Ventura.
So, the whole story goes around Jim Carey’s character, who refuses to do a lot stuff with his friends, till he have a dream of nobody giving a damn about his death. He goes to a “Yes” convention, where the presenter, played by Terence Stamp, puts a covenant on him: If he says no, bad things will happen. And, by doing that, he ends giving a lift to a homeless guy, give him all his money, end without gas in car and finding a crazy chick.
Acting is… ok, I guess. Brad Cooper, as Carl (Jim Carey) best friend is moot, only to show some life in the last part. Zooey Deschanel pushes the air-headed crazy chick so far you can’t even imagine how Carl (or someone like him) would fall for her if he wasn’t in the “I’M CURSED!” mood all the time.
All in all, a good movie for a lazy Saturday afternoon.
Heh, that movie was awesome. I loved it.
Norman: “Did you just call me Norm’? Can that be like… my nick name? Alright, Car’! See, that can be yours!”
Or something along those lines. I have yet to find the quote of a clip of it online, sadly.
Norm most definitely makes up for the personality of Carl’s best friend. And Zooey Deschanel is amazing.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. :-)
Fuck yeah, I loved Zooey in H2G2, but this time it looks so… boring.
Of course, she was doing a movie with *the* Jim Carey, so it may be that she shouldn’t be more charismatic than the main guy, like in “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”, where everyone had to settle down for “smaller” parts due Sean Connery (even when the comics say that Mina [the vampire] was the League leader).