Going into Disney's A Christmas Carol, I was expecting a lot of wacky slapstick comedy, because when you put Disney and Jim Carrey together, that's what you get. But even though Jim Carrey provides many of the voices and a lot of the visual inspiration for the characters, there was hardly any wackiness to be seen. In fact, most of the movie is pretty dark. If you've seen Robert Zemeckis' previous animated feature, Beowulf, you can get a pretty good idea of what to expect here, although the character designs are a bit more exaggerated, and some of their movements a bit more cartoonish. Still, this was one of the creepiest versions of A Christmas Carol I've ever seen, creepier by far than my two reigning favorites, Scrooged and The Muppet Christmas Carol. And you know what? Creepy ain't always bad.

Tags: A Christmas Carol, Disney, Jim Carrey, review

The embattled, multiply delayed, recut for the allegedly prudish American audiences I Love You, Phillip Morris is finally in theaters in the States, and though the version I saw this weekend is the sanitized American one, it so lived up to the hype that I can't wait to find a way to watch the original version enjoyed by European audiences by not at all illegally downloading it now. (Great job, movie industry!) Here's why it works even without all the incendiary stuff that scared every distributor in North America.

Tags: Ewan McGregor, Glenn Ficarra, I Love You Phillip Morris, Jim Carrey, John Requa, review

Apparently, Jim Carrey still has it, as his wacky comedy Liar, Liar-- uh, we mean Yes Man topped the box office this weekend, beating out Will "I am Box Office Legend" Smith's sad-looking Seven Pounds. But just barely -- Jimbo got $18.1 million, while Big Willy got an even $16 mill. Still, they were the standouts of the weekend, which remained mellow in the face of holiday shopping. (Expect the holiday weekend, with its six major releases, to turn everything on its ear.)

Tags: box office, Four Christmases, Jim Carrey, Keanu Reeves, Seven Pounds, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Tale of Despereaux, Will Smith, Yes Man

When we heard that the Farrelly Brothers (Kingpin, Dumb and Dumber) were going to be making a new Three Stooges movie, and that they were referring to it as "Dumb, Dumber and Dumbest," we didn't have high hopes. We figured they'd cast a few small-time comedy actors, it would be a creative failure that couldn't possibly live up to the originals, and everyone involved would try to forget it ever happened.

Tags: Benicio del Toro, Farrelly Brothers, Jim Carrey, remake, Sean Penn, Three Stooges

There must be some sort of Venn diagram which illustrates that the likelihood of a Hollywood actor to try his hand at rapping is directly proportional to how insufferable he is in other facets of his life. Let me give you an example: Did you know that Tom Green has released not one, but two hip hop albums? True story. By now you've probably seen the footage of Joaquin Phoenix onstage rapping (and promptly falling off the stage -- hee!) for some documentary Casey Affleck is producing about Phoenix's attempt to become a hip hopper. And just a couple days ago, Jim Carrey jumped up onstage with Fiddy Cent for no apparent reason.

Tags: Jim Carrey, Joaquin Phoenix, Tom Green

It's a crazy, mixed-up world, and I Love You, Phillip Morris looks like it might be a bit mixed-up, as well, if the newly released French trailer is anything to go by. The movie stars Jim Carrey as a church-going married man named Steven Russell, whose revelation after a car accident is that he's gay. He then embarks upon not just a life of uninhibited gayness but crime, as well. The latter lands him in prison, where he meets Phillip Morris (played by Ewan McGregor) and the two fall madly in love. It's based on the true story of a Texas man who escaped prison four times to be with his former cellmate. Sounds good, in theory. Who doesn't love a good against-all-odds love story? The problem is that mixed-up trailer.

Tags: Ewan McGregor, I Love You, Jim Carrey, Phillip Morris