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Avg. Critic Score: 47 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
13 Iffy for 13+
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  • 70
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    Fun With Dick and Jane has lived up to its title: It's fun, and that's fine. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Justin Chang

    The rare Hollywood remake that, by daring to reinterpret its source material within a fresh political context, actually has a reason to exist. Read full review

  • 63
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Recycles the 1977 comedy right down to repeating the same mistakes. Read full review

  • 60
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Plays like the setup for a movie that never materializes. It has all the elements for a successful comedy, but once the premise is presented, the film doesn't know how to deliver on its promise. That doesn't mean there is no fun in "Fun." Read full review

  • 60
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    Mr. Carrey is such an attention hog that most actresses have a hard time holding on to their corner of the screen when he's onboard, especially in broader comedies. But Ms. Leoni never cedes her ground. Both performers exude such acute neediness - there's a touch of Jerry Lewis and Lucille Ball in their mutual frenzy - that not to love them even a little would seem cruel. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    The new film's social message comes through loud and clear, but something in the comedy seems constrained -- effortful, yet muffled. It might be a matter of the right tone never having been found. Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter | Sheri Linden

    While the 1977 Fun With Dick and Jane was a reasonably diverting sendup of conspicuous consumption with a subversive if not always razor-sharp comic edge, the new version... replaces smart performances with tired shtick. Read full review

  • 50
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Wearing a brush cut that never fits the role, Carrey doesn't do a lot here besides flash those vampire-nerd teeth, and I grew weary of seeing them. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    There's really not much fun to be had with Dick and Jane - or anyone else in this anemic comedy. Read full review

  • 25
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Build a comedy around Jim Carrey in manic mode and they will come. Case in point: Fun With Dick and Jane, a pointless, painfully unfunny and yet inexplicably popular remake of the 1977 fizzle with Jane Fonda and George Segal. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 13+ So-so comedy; not likely to interest kids.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this comedy includes some cursing and broad physical, occasionally violent comedy. Characters drink and act drunkenly; they make jokes about sex (with two scenes leaning toward activity, one in a married couple's bed and one in the car). Characters steal, lie, blackmail, and cheat to get money.
  • Families can talk about the day laborers joke: while it may be funny to see Dick mistaken for "Mexican," how does this situation speak to real concerns for poor immigrants?
  • Do Dick and Jane learn any moral lessons from their ordeal?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Wronged by the corrupt system, the couple gets even, never rejecting the consumerist ethos that gets them in trouble in the first place.
  • rolemodels true0 Positive role models: Despite the smart jokes and sly political commentary, Dick and Jane are still stealing from (mainly) innocent people-- and stealing is wrong.
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence: Dick and Jane rob convenience stores and banks with toy guns; he's beaten, arrested, and dumped over the Mexican border by the INS.
  • sex false0 Sex: Jokes about prostitution, a married couple "makes a date" for sex; a woman refers to her breasts as "pooties" excited by a robbery, they have sex in their car (scene is brief and jokey).
  • language false3 Language: Mild language ("screwed," "piss," s-word, one mispronunciation that sounds like the s-word, one f-word).
  • consumerism false3 Consumerism: References to Starbucks, cars (BMWs, Mercedes), Sony Vaio, Camel cigarettes, Fanta, Bounty paper towels.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drinking and drunkenness, references to cigarettes and marijuana (as a cash crop, and a single joint on screen).
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