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Summary: Zany fun
Review: Jim Carrey is an obsessive, lonely cable installer who befriends a man named Steve (Broderick) who takes him for a ride on the Superinformation highway & then some. Fuuny stuff. Especially the "Medieval Times" scene.
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Summary: Not Jim Carrey's Best
Review: I would try renting this first or maybe finding it on TV. If your a true Carrey fan like me,you won't find Jim Carrey acting like he did in The Mask,Ace Ventura,Bruce Almighty,or any other of his good ones. Just drop this one from the list.
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Summary: Jim Carrey at his worst
Review: After the Mask, Ace Ventura, and Bruce Almighty I didn't think Carrey was capable of doing a bad movie, but after thoughtlessly renting this movie I was prooven wrong. Carrey plays a psycho phony cable guy with a terrible lisp and does his usual routine of acting like a complete screwball, but this time it just wasn't funny. Because of dry dialogue and script and co-stars such as Matthew Broderick who only belong in serious movies this movie just bored me, and when it was done I felt kind of depressed having spent an hour and a half watching this monstrosity. Carrey fans steer clear of this dissapointment.
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Summary: Entertaining and disturbing
Review: Chip Douglas (Jim Carrey) is a lonely man who is seriously disturbed. His latest customer, Steven Kovacs (Matthew Broderick) gets a tip from his friend that a slip of cash to a cable guy will earn him free cable. Unfortuantely, Steve's new cable guy is the aforementioned Chip. Chip tries to enter Steve's life unsuccessfully, thus throwing the already emotionally hurt Chip into a raging effort to become Steve's friend. Although he is a little psycho, nonetheless, he is smart and cunning. Before Steve even knew, Chip had been weaving an intricate web of secrets of Steve's life as a back-up plan, releasing them to the public one by one, therefore screwing up Steve's working, personal, and love life. Steve is the only one who realizes what Chip is doing, and finds out about Chip's history, which leads to an interesting (and so surprising its funny) climax. I rated this movie four stars because of the funny moments with Jim Carrey, and how Chip's plotting is very intelligent. Although there are some stupid and disgusting moments (porno password, for example) it is a funny movie. If you're a Jim Carrey fan, buy it. If you're in the need for a small laugh and maybe some touching moments, buy it. If you want a movie with a smart script and comedy, rent it. Either way, its a B+ or A- movie.
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Summary: Refreshing
Review: Oh man...giving this movie a bad review because you thought Jim Carrey was "out of his element" is insane. If I recall correctly, Robin Williams got praise for his roles in Insomnia and One Hour Photo, among other actors who made a genre leap. How could you say this movie was bad because it wasn't Ace Ventura? They aren't even the same type of movie, so of course they'll be different. I watch this movie every time it's on TV, and I have it on tape. For about half a year this was my hands down favorite movie, and this was during 8th grade. I still enjoy it as much as I did then. Solid acting all around, good script, and whether you think so or not this may be Jim Carrey's best movie. Face it, if Chris Nolan had directed this movie you would have loved it. Give Stiller credit for making arguably the best movie of 1996. And as a final note, lets pray that for now on all actors stay in their respective genres. So much easier to keep track of that way, right? Enjoy Ace Ventura, guys.
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Summary: Totally Underrated
Review: I'think this movie is totally underrated, for some reasons maybe, who know. But since you've seen it, you know this is really a good movie and the first time Jim Carrey show some dark side in his comedies. I think this action-packed flick deserve 5 stars for its outstanding funny compared to other common comedies, and of course Carrey deserve 5 stars for his natural comedy talent.
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Summary: CABLE GUY Review
Review: "Stupid Cable Guy! Nearly ruined Jim Carrey's career". Uh, Homer Simpson summed it up so appropriately there. Okay, maybe I'm being a bit too harsh. In all fairness, this was not a bad movie. But for someone like Jim Carrey who had been well-known for his goofball comedies like "Ace Ventura" and "Dumb And Dumber", this dark comedy was a bit too much, too fast for his usual audience. Throw in Matthew Broderick who hasn't been in a good movie since he ditched high school for a day in "Ferris Bueller's Day-Off" and you have the formula for a box-office disaster.
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Summary: So FuNnY!
Review: This is one of my favorite movies.
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Summary: Carrey's underrated masterpiece
Review: "The Cable Guy," as most know by now, was a major departure for Jim Carrey. The rubber-faced goofball of hits like "Dumb And Dumber" and "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" was still present, but he was appearing in a radically different form. With Carrey playing a cable installer fixated on an unsuspecting customer, "The Cable Guy" is easily his darkest movie. However, I've got a soft spot for a good black comedy, and this one is about as black (and as good) as they come. Although goofy behavior had been Carrey's trademark since his "In Living Color" days (remember Fire Marshal Bill?), "The Cable Guy" was the first movie in which his madcap antics hinted at something dark beneath the surface. Indeed, by playing such a twisted character, Carrey was finally able to let loose and reveal the full range of his comedic gifts (aren't bad guys always more fun?). In contrast to the likes of "Ace Ventura" and "Dumb And Dumber," which were basically just live-action cartoons (albeit amusing ones), "The Cable Guy" provides Carrey with a creepy, unsettling vehicle where he gets to show some real malevolence. When Carrey plays basketball prison-style while Filter's "Hey Man Nice Shot" plays in the background, it's both hilarious and disturbing at the same time. And even when Carrey hams it up, as when he does a vibrato-heavy rendition of Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody To Love" while a group of freaky friends dances around him, there's an undercurrent of the surreal. In an equally dramatic departure from Carrey's norm, "The Cable Guy" even had a message mixed in with all its weirdness. It turns out Carrey's nameless cable installer, who gets his pseudonyms from old TV shows, was left by his mother to be raised by the TV, and has attachment issues stemming from his inability to relate to others. The plot is set against the backdrop of a former child star's trial for killing his twin brother, and director Ben Stiller (who also plays the murderous brother) takes several opportunities for pointed satire of our TV-addled culture. It's not until the end that the subject is addressed at length, but the pernicious effects of TV are a prominent theme of the movie. When the cable guy laments in his closing monologue that he learned about the facts of life from watching "The Facts Of Life," it's strangely poignant. And how about a hand for Matthew Broderick as Steven Kovacs, the unfortunate object of Carrey's fixation? It's hard to believe this guy almost faded into obscurity in the five years or so after "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." If not for his classic turn in "Election," I'd say Steven was the role Broderick was born to play. At first Steven just regards the cable guy as a nuisance, but his annoyance over his new friend's increasingly creepy behavior grows as the film wears on until it turns to outright fear and desperation, and Broderick captures it perfectly. Few, if any actors, make a better hapless guy than Broderick, which is especially ironic given that he became a star playing the uber-cool Ferris Bueller. Watching this movie, it's hard to believe it was such a letdown at the box office. I firmly believe entertainers should be rewarded for taking risks, but apparently Carrey's fans weren't quite ready for him to play such a troubled character in such a dark movie. That's too bad, because those who haven't seen this movie are really missing out. "The Cable Guy" doesn't go down as easy as Carrey's other comedies, but it's a lot more rewarding in the end.
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Summary: Funny for a thriller
Review: This movie sure is funny for a thriller, why I even saw Jack Black, and the part where they were playing basketball, and playing swordfights on horses, I even saw the script of "The Cable Guy" on "The Simpsons" where Homer kept riping it, because it was awful.
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