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It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

This one's pretty good. It's no comedy classic, but it holds up well, and delivers. The situation depicted as the main narrative in itself is funny enough, the acting's good, there's a bit of a social commentary on the frailty of capitalist America but carried out humorously...The only thing is of course as always with this sort of fairly forgettable bit of cinema is the plot is never original enough to stick with people, and that the developments are just too ambitious and seem half-thought out, almost rushed in parts, but overall that part still manages about well enough.It's pretty good. It's fun, pretty funny at times, and it works at what it does.

Fun with Dick and Jane is a remake of the 1977 film starring Jane Fonda and George Segal. After the failure of companies such as Enron in the new millennium this remake starring Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni was intended to be satire with Carrey's broad comedy.As a satire its passable with Alec Baldwin playing the Chief Executive who ransacks his corporation and leaves his employees in the dirt. As a comedy it does not really work and never raised a smile with me.Carrey's Dick is VP of Globodyne Corporation, he and his wife both have a good job, a BMW, a prestigious house and living the American dream with an upper class lifestyle. It all goes horribly wrong when his firm goes under.Dick cannot find another executive job and both have them to look for more menial jobs before having lost their savings and household appliances they are forced to commit robbery before Carrey decided to turn on his former boss.As a remake this does not hold a candle to the original. Leoni brings nothing to the table and its left to Carrey to keep the movie being watchable but the satire lacks edge, the comedy is weak and the movie is rather mundane.

Jim Carrey isn't at the top of my list of favourite actors. He's funny, but way too often he simply goes overboard and it seems as though he's trying to be too funny - with the end result being that he isn't funny, he's just irritating. When he keeps himself more in check, though (and actually acts, rather than trying too hard to be funny) he can put on a pretty good performance, and in "Fun With Dick and Jane" he manages to do that, teamed very effectively with Tea Leoni.What really makes this movie work is not so much the comedy (although it is quite funny at times) but the sympathy you feel for the characters, which - because of the economic troubles in the modern world - is probably even greater today than it was in 2005 when this movie was made. Dick is a corporate executive on the rise, who as the movie opens gets his big promotion to Vice President of a big company, only to be left stammering incoherently in a television interview when the company goes under while he's on the air. He and Jane find themselves in desperate circumstances, unable to find work, having to sell everything they own, finally faced with the foreclosure of their house. This was funny and somewhat sad all at the same time. You could laugh at what was happening on screen and at the same time really understand their plight, while at the same time hoping you never have to face what they're facing. Finally, with literally no other options, Dick and Jane take up robbing stores and banks to try to save their home. Everything worked very well up to that point in the movie.I didn't like the revenge angle, though. Eventually, this turned into Dick and Jane finding a way to make Jack McAllister (Alec Baldwin) - who had been the president of the company Dick worked for - pay for his dishonesty. Somehow the movie lost its sense of fun with that, and the end result was a little too "feel-good," as their plot against McAllister worked perfectly and to the benefit not just of Dick and Jane, but of all the company's former employees. It was nice to see McAllister pay up, but to me it didn't really fit too well with what I was feeling about the movie up to that point.This is quite a fun ride for a little over an hour, then the remainder of the movie gets a bit bogged down with this plan directed against McAllister. What really makes this work, though, is that Dick and Jane are truly likable characters whose desperate circumstances you really do care about. They were fine performances from Carrey and Leoni. (7/10)

Yes, it's a remake. But let me hate that else time. The movie is nice; however it didn't utilize many chances to make more laughs. For big instance, the second act; where the thefts are, was a bit hasty and not interesting (The Egyptian copy of Dick and Jane, named "Esapa Hamadda wi Toto", is better in this matter). And for small instance, the leads' kid was nearly unused. The movie ends pretty short. 90 minutes seemed not enough or cut off. Maybe (Carry), the producer, wanted this into the point with no longer time.Moreover, while (Carry) is doing fine in his rationalized phase, where he's not dumb or dumber anymore, (Téa Leoni) was the wrong choice altogether. She got nothing to do with comedy, nothing to do with comedy (My anger just confirms!). Watch this movie to know exactly what I'm talking about, noticing the tragedy of having a comic star as (Carry) beside her all the time too. Albeit nothing is more tragic than her legs, Ugh !! They're ugly to creepy extent, so why to show them naked for half of the movie ?!!!! I WAS SICK, REAL SICK. When I read that (Cameron Diaz) was set to play Jane, but bowed out shortly before production I MOAN. (Diaz) is a real comedienne, lovely beauty, who also has long unforgettable pair of legs, Not mawkish ones that can make you vomit !On the other hand, using The Enron disaster was smart. It is way better than reusing ready-made event from the 1970s movie, and it shows good, rather bitter, touch with today's reality. I loved situations like mistaking the lead for illegal emigrant, trying to steal a stranger who turns out to be acquaintance,… etc. Or swift moments like the one in which they mock at George W. Bush (Alec Baldwin's character talks to the media with grief about his staff during a duck shoot as same as the previous president talked about the war and then invited the press to watch his golf swing!). And when it comes to the scene of (Carry) threatening (Baldwin) with toy gun and tears then it's the best one at all as writing and acting. Then, look at you at the end; we eventually forgive the 2 leads for what they did of steals, not due to their miserable crises or desperate need, but for getting revenge of a huge unfair tycoon who was living untouchable. That's one of the movie's secrets by the way; get the big ones; namely the corrupted businessmen who always get away with it, not the money (or more than it anyway).Among 2005 movies, and from my own lists; as a man & woman's buddy-movie it's better than (Mr. & Mrs. Smith). As a heist, kind of, movie it's better than (Domino). And as a remake it's another nail in the coffin of originality, yes, but at least considered more creative and amusing compared to the other, many, remakes lately. Generally it works, yet on the "not so great" level. For me the only great thing about it though is seeing a comedian like (Carry) doing fine without wacky stuff, and crossing from a phase to another successfully.