Fun with Dick and Jane | 
| Director: Dean Parisot
Actors: Jim Carrey, Tea Leoni, Alec Baldwin, Richard Jenkins, Angie Harmon
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  148 reviews
Sales Rank: 3245
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 10228
UPC: 043396102286
EAN: 0043396102286
ASIN: B000E8N8H0
Theatrical Release Date: December 21, 2005
Release Date: April 11, 2006
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Product Description
WHEN THE COMPANY DICK WORKS FOR BECOMES INVOLVED IN AN ENRON-LIKE SCANDAL & HE TAKES THE RAP, DICK & JANE ARE FACED WITH PROSPECT OF LOSING EVERYTHING. AFTER PLAYING BY THE RULES & GETTING BURNED, DICK HAS AN IDEA: IF STEALING WAS GOOD ENOUGH FOR HIS BOSS, THEN IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR HIM.
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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 Tea 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
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 Fun With Dick andJane July 1, 2009
Brendasphere (TX NM PA, Anywhere)
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! May 21, 2009
Jeremy11 (Nashville, TN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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!
 Exactly What I Asked For May 20, 2009
K. Copeland (DC, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The product was on time, in original wrapping, and free of damages. It's exactly what I asked (and paid) for.
Interesting mix March 21, 2009
J. Dykstra (Roswell, NM)
This movie is an interesting mix of a funny comedy about people who turn to silly stuff when they lose everything and a more serious coverage of corporate scandals. I'm giving the movie 4 stars because in a few places this disparity seems a little out of place, but in most cases, it works fairly well. Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni are pretty humorous and convincing as the main characters, and the whole corporate scene is done well, even if it isn't necessarily totally realistic. I would say the only odd thing about the movie is that after robbing numerous banks and other institutions, not only do the main characters not get caught, but they actually end up being heroes. For me, the ending in which a "thank-you" is offered in the credits to all the companies in the real world that were involved in scandals kind of makes the movie seem more meaningful.
Good remake February 16, 2009
magellan (Santa Clara, CA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Warning: spoilers ahead (but only a couple).
I saw the original 25 years ago with George Segal and Jane Fonda and so wanted to see how this remake would compare. Carrey's company is a thinly-veiled clone of Enron, whose plummeting financial fortunes result in Carrey's premature departure from the workplace, and from there the hijinks begin. Ironically, the movie, which was made after the 2001 Dot.com debacle and bear market, in a way presaged the far more wide-reaching financial disasters of today.
Having fallen from a wealthy VP to collecting unemployment checks, all too soon the couple finds they can't afford their new lawn, expensive yuppie cars, their upscale home, and the pool boy. Oddly enough, they keep their housekeeper almost to the very end. Some of the most trenchant scenes occur when Carrey tries to find other employment and finds that apparently every other desperate executive in town is competing for the same position.
Carrey brings a zanier, more hyper interpretation to the male lead, with his eye-popping facial expressions and frenzied, over-the-top performances. But then I expect that of Carrey. Leoni's is less over the top performance and is more like Fonda's in the original.
The movie changes many of the original scenes; for example, it doesn't reprise the funny scene in which Segal and Fonda rob the phone company and people are thanking and blessing them, which I missed. But since the breakup of Ma Bell perhaps that wouldn't have played as well. But the movie still has many funny scenes of its own. In one hilarious scene, Carrey finds that both he and one of his former executive colleagues are trying to rob the same bank. :-)
Eventually, after seeing the hopelessness of trying to find a real job with so many other executives out of work, the couple turns to crime, where they progress from bumbling tyros to competent stick-up artists. After hatching a scheme to get back at the corrupt president of the company who looted its assets (played by Alec Baldwin), Carrey saves the employees' retirements and all is well at the conclusion of the movie. I have a nostalgia for the original but this movie is just as funny and clever as the first one, and it's probably a must see for Carrey fans.
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