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needs to make more family oriented comedies with sci-fi/fantasy elements

posted 10 years ago by digipts
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in my opinion his movies had gotten less successful financially when he started doing a bunch of more serious, dark, or realistic movies in the 2000's. but when he did try a more high energy comedy on rare occasions, they did receive more attention and support, as such was the case with bruce almighty and yes man. (he also did a fine job as a voice actor in "horton hears a who!" which was another big hit. i know, i know, it's an animated feature.)

i feel that if he stars as a main character in a bright colored, high budget, family oriented comedy movie with a lighthearted storyline and lots of fun elements of sci-fi/fantasy/superhero, then most moviegoers will show a ton of interest in seeing it in the theater. that is the kind of movie jim carrey is born to play in. with that kind of movie, families will run to the theaters to see it no matter what (especially if it gets released on a big holiday weekend).

[–] aurllcooljay 10 years ago

Ever seen A Series of Unfortunate Events?

[–] Broncho_Knight 10 years ago

He has made some movies like that actually such as The Mask, Batman Forever, A Christmas Carol, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. On a side note, Carrey was one of the original choices for Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story. He would have been a great choice for the role.

[–] digipts 10 years ago

Yes! The Mask and Grinch are the very kind of movies I was thinking of. Very colorful, high energy, uplifting and bright (not "dark"), etc. I wish he makes more of those movies :)

(you can argue the mask had a scary villain but at least carrey's character was very uplifting and comedic if you know what i'm talking about.)

[–] jajceboy 9 years ago

Ever seen A series of Unfortunate Events? or A Christmas Carol?
That's exactly what you've been looking for.

[–] digipts 8 years ago

those are high budget family movies but they don't fit the complete description i gave.

well maybe i didn't make it clear enough so let me clarify my thoughts. i would like to see him make more movies that are HAPPY/BRIGHT-COLORED, HIGH-ENERGY, FAST-PACED and FUN (throughout the majority part of the film) where he plays a good/heroic character. it helps if the character has FLASHY and COOL looks as well. something like the MASK!