Steven Kovacs (Matthew Broderick) is a meek proper guy who got kicked out of the apartment by his girlfriend Robin Harris (Leslie Mann). Cable guy, Chip to his friends (Jim Carrey) is a crazy wackjob desperate for friends.
What went wrong with this movie? This was universally panned. Jim Carrey is doing his crazy wildman like Ace Ventura. Matthew Broderick is going for the meek everyman. I just never liked the duo. They are not that funny. The Medieval Times battle was partly funny. Matthew Broderick is too meek and too pathetic. It would be better if he's just a simple nice guy. Anyway, the movie was going alright until the story starts to turn midway through.
The reaction from the other character just don't ring true. It starts earlier with the basketball game. If somebody broke the backboard in my game, everybody would be whooping it up, highfiving, and backslapping. That was awesome, but the characters look like somebody took a dump. It feels wrong and fake.
When Steven gets arrested, I don't understand why nobody believed him. People saw Chip. People know who the guy is. Robin should know he's the cable guy. And the game just seems too desperate for jokes. Again the characters seem to be very unrealistic trying too hard. It doesn't make any sense.
The first half had a nice black comedy feel. It had problems but it still could have been fixed. Then the second half goes bad. It's like the story didn't know how to progress so it tacked on a police procedural ending.
What went wrong with this movie? This was universally panned. Jim Carrey is doing his crazy wildman like Ace Ventura. Matthew Broderick is going for the meek everyman. I just never liked the duo. They are not that funny. The Medieval Times battle was partly funny. Matthew Broderick is too meek and too pathetic. It would be better if he's just a simple nice guy. Anyway, the movie was going alright until the story starts to turn midway through.
The reaction from the other character just don't ring true. It starts earlier with the basketball game. If somebody broke the backboard in my game, everybody would be whooping it up, highfiving, and backslapping. That was awesome, but the characters look like somebody took a dump. It feels wrong and fake.
When Steven gets arrested, I don't understand why nobody believed him. People saw Chip. People know who the guy is. Robin should know he's the cable guy. And the game just seems too desperate for jokes. Again the characters seem to be very unrealistic trying too hard. It doesn't make any sense.
The first half had a nice black comedy feel. It had problems but it still could have been fixed. Then the second half goes bad. It's like the story didn't know how to progress so it tacked on a police procedural ending.