Fun With Dick and Jane (2005)

29% of critics liked it
(132 reviews)
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A not-so-ordinary family finds a new way of paying the bills in this comedy. Dick Harper (Jim Carrey) and his wife, Jane (Téa Leoni), would seem to have it made -- Dick has a high-paying job, they live in an expensive house in the suburbs, they have two luxury cars in the driveway, and a… More A not-so-ordinary family finds a new way of paying the bills in this comedy. Dick Harper (Jim Carrey) and his wife, Jane (Téa Leoni), would seem to have it made -- Dick has a high-paying job, they live in an expensive house in the suburbs, they have two luxury cars in the driveway, and a housekeeper, Blanca (Gloria Garayua), to help look after their son, Billy. But Dick and Jane's fairy-tale life crashes head-on into reality when the firm Dick works for turns out to have been using unscrupulous accounting methods to disguise the fact they've been losing money hand over fist, and Dick has been made the fall guy for some of their dirty dealings. Suddenly flat broke, Dick and Jane must find a new way to support their lavish lifestyle, and in time they discover just the thing -- crime. A remake of Ted Kotcheff's 1977 hit (which helped re-launch Jane Fonda's screen career), Fun With Dick and Jane also stars Alec Baldwin, John Michael Higgins, and Angie Harmon. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Rating, Runtime: PG-13, 1 hr. 30 min.
Directed By: Dean Parisot, Barry Sonnenfeld
Genres: Comedy

In Theaters: Dec 21, 2005 Wide
On DVD: Apr 11, 2006
Studio: Columbia Pictures

Critic Reviews

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Dick and Jane thereby emerge comically and sentimentally as the unlikeliest of collectivist crusaders.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
The movie starts off silly, soon becomes funny and then skyrockets into irrepressible hilarity.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Fun With Dick & Jane offers the faintly depressing sight of Jim Carrey, like Dick Harper, doing whatever it takes to earn his supper.
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic
They are funny bits, but there are too few of them. Fun With Dick and Jane just isn't all that fun.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
In striving for inspiration, Fun with Dick and Jane discovers moments of cleverness, but there aren't enough of them, nor are they sustained.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Most of it plays out as sub-medium-grade farce, but Carrey has some funny calisthenic bits where he appears to have the pliability of a rubber toy.
Joshua Starnes, ComingSoon.net
Fun with Dick and Jane is an extended Enron joke used to give Jim Carrey plenty of opportunity to mug for the camera. Everything else is more or less perfunctory to that.
Nick Rogers, Suite101.com
Consider it a signed confession of remake rape when a "produced by Jim Carrey" credit appears atop his noodle-limbed exaggeration of "I Believe I Can Fly." his corporate-greed satire doesn't just lack bite. It lacks gnaw. It even lacks nibble.
Cynthia Fuchs, Common Sense Media
So-so comedy; not likely to interest kids.
Prairie Miller, WBAI Web Radio
With the ever-escalating assault against Hollywood by the neo-conservatives and their tightening surveillance over movie content, humor of this kind may turn out to be the best revenge.
Prairie Miller, WBAI Web Radio
The downward mobility of the middle class straight to the poverty level, or crime often not as evil, but rather economic desperation, are plot points hardly likely to sit well with those who control this economy and profit from it.
Doris Toumarkine, Film Journal International
An entertaining and zippy 87 minutes.
Peter T. Chattaway, Christianity Today
In a strange way, it's fitting that a movie about people out of work should itself barely work.
Michael Szymanski, Hollywood.com
This cynical look at how the American family can only achieve their dreams through crime is a bit more of a political statement rather than comedic entertainment.

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Film C

I didnt enjoy this movie that much, it was more annoying then actually funny. Not a bad cast but the storyline and Plot is just silly. I dont think its even a movie worth wasting your time watching!
Mike S

My least favourite Jim Carrey movie. Altough it amused me enough to say it was worth my while, there was something really off about its endeavours to evoke laughter. Carrey does the best he can, so he can't be blamed for it. No, the problem is traced to the lackluster script.… More
My least favourite Jim Carrey movie. Altough it amused me enough to say it was worth my while, there was something really off about its endeavours to evoke laughter. Carrey does the best he can, so he can't be blamed for it. No, the problem is traced to the lackluster script. There are a few scenes where I came close to a genuine chuckle, but on the whole it's so flat that I felt indifferent to watching it. The only reason I continued, was in the naive hope that it would get better somehow. Sadly though, that never happened, which once again affirms my theory that all the good comedy writers died off at the turn of the millenium (look at what befalled The Simpsons for example, and you'll know that I'm right). Because while we in the 90's got great Carrey flicks like The Mask and Dumb and Dumber, we now have to settle for mediocracy like this and Yes Man. A shame to be sure, because with talent like Jim's, he deserves a lot better.
Directors C

Remember The Mask? The film that became so popular because of Carrey's physical comedy performances? Fun With Dick and Jane is just like that. It's not as funny neither does it have any character development but trust me. It's funny.
Brad W

Funny at some parts, but mostly a bad movie, I did not enjoy it almost at all, one of Jim Carreys bad movies.
Bethany M

It was an ok film!
Martin S

I don't know. It's not bad. But it's just useless. There is no need for this movie. Can't imagine anyone having this as favorite movie. It's just not good enough
Daniel P

This film was much more fun than I expected. A bit of a shame that it didn't come a little later, when there was so much more to say about the consequences of greed and America's continuing economic meltdown. That out of the way, Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni are a believable,… More
This film was much more fun than I expected. A bit of a shame that it didn't come a little later, when there was so much more to say about the consequences of greed and America's continuing economic meltdown. That out of the way, Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni are a believable, cursed pair that made me laugh (Carrey especially). There aren't many comic actors left who can carry a bad movie the way he does with his over-the-top energy. (Indicted?!?!??!) And this isn't to say it's a bad movie; it's a one-note comedy and Alec Baldwin's the weakest link, but Judd Apatow's rebooted script is better than expected. One for a wasted Sunday, i.e. when you were out too late the Saturday before. As I may or may not have been when I caught this on TV. Check it out and have a laugh, it's alright!
Richard C

the first time I saw this the first half was boring but the second half was hilarious but I saw this again and it wasn't funny anymore. C
Jeremy S

Not Much, Fun With Dick And Jane. Jim Carey delivers some hilarity in this remake of the 1977 comedy show. Seems to be fashionable to make remakes these days, with Herbie, Bewitched, Dukes of Hazard and now this. Not Jim's Best.
Dead A

This wasn't that funny. But the ending was nice.
KJ P

Alright for a young teen who is bored out of their mind and want to watch something that is average, because they have no idea what a good movie is!
Conner R

While Jim Carrey clearly tried to make this as entertaining as possible, the story was just way too weak. Judd Apatow tends to write really bad screenplays that rely too much on improvisation. While it is a harmless comedy, it's nothing special.
Anthony L

It's not very funny and not very exciting, half way through you will start thinking about all the other things you could be doing with your time, like, watching a better film!
Thomas B

couple of funny moments
Nicki M

Very average comedy. Didn't hate it, and laughed a few times, but there's definitely better out there.
Lorenzo v

"See Dick Run" An update of the 1977 comedy, Dick and Jane are living the good life. That is until Dick (Jim Carrey) loses his job shortly after getting a promotion that convinced his wife Jane (Téa Leoni) to quit her job. The money is gone, and the… More
"See Dick Run" An update of the 1977 comedy, Dick and Jane are living the good life. That is until Dick (Jim Carrey) loses his job shortly after getting a promotion that convinced his wife Jane (Téa Leoni) to quit her job. The money is gone, and the house ends up in foreclosure. Dick decides to turn to a hilarious life of crime to pay the bills with his lovely wife by his side. Then together they decide it's time to steal back what Former CEO Jack McCallister (Alec Baldwin) had stolen from them. <center>REVIEW</center> Fun with Dick and Jane is a competently done, moderately funny film. We've all sat through horrific stinkers and wished to heaven we could have our two hours back, and life is simply too short to watch terrible films, but sometimes you end up watching movies because you're sitting there and you don't want to move, because friends drag you to it, or because you've been unable to find a single other thing on the 500 channels on your satellite setup. Well, let me tell you that if you are forced to see it, you won't have the worst time of your life. Carrey has done oh so much worse things, and the grotesque poop/semen jokes are kept to a bare minimum, while the actual physical comedy and snappy lines work. I've seen better, but more importantly, I've seen far worse.
Leigh R

What's to say... it was okay.
Jens S

Dick thinking he gets promoted but losing his job while Jane is quitting hers in expectation of plenty of income causes a lot of financial problems for Carrey and Leoni. The movie evolving around that is pretty much based on Carrey's comedy talent, but the plot and ideas leave… More
Dick thinking he gets promoted but losing his job while Jane is quitting hers in expectation of plenty of income causes a lot of financial problems for Carrey and Leoni. The movie evolving around that is pretty much based on Carrey's comedy talent, but the plot and ideas leave him out in the cold several times. There are a few really hilarious scenes (the illegal working aliens or the voice scrambler) and the idea with the Spanish speaking kid is just fantastic. Sadly the story doesn't do much all by itself but jump from joke to joke with some of them not working quite that well and the "showdown" heist isn't really worth mentioning. The movie's fast and never boring, but considering it had a Jim Carrey it could have been a lot funnier.
Craig S

Directed by: Dean Parisot. Starring: Jim Carrey, Tea Leoni, Alec Baldwin. The film is terribly marketed and it appears like a cheap laughless cash-in, but thankfully it isn't what you would expect, but… More
Directed by: Dean Parisot. Starring: Jim Carrey, Tea Leoni, Alec Baldwin. The film is terribly marketed and it appears like a cheap laughless cash-in, but thankfully it isn't what you would expect, but it isn't high class either. But having said that, the one thing this film hits well on most of the time is its humour, it's a step up from most hollywood 'comedies' in actually producing some quirky gags (maybe Judd Apatow helped there?) and having Jim Carrey in the leading role is genius, he shines in one of his most over the top, hilarious roles since Ace Ventura (and he works well with Tea Leoni) and with some slightly clever ideas here and there (and the funny reference to corporate scandals just before the credits), that is really where it ends. The plot is as thin as you can get and the film flies too fast through any chance to form the film into a clever satire. But for Jim Carrey fan's just looking for a laugh, you will be more then satisfied, one of the better hollywood comedies to come out thanks to Jim Carrey's shining role and some quirky gags that hit more then they miss, but any chance of being a great and clever satire is thrown out the window within the first 10 minutes.
Keysha H

I'm not a Tea fan..but she won me over. Clever writing especially with the child who speaks spanish.