Conference bookie::movies

    
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> Has anyone seen it?

	obviously someone has .....

	It was the top weekend grosser with $16.2 Million (prelim. figure) ....

    Siskel gave it a thumbs up, and while Ebert "couldn't" give it a thumbs
    up due to sloppiness, apparent haste in filming/editing, and certain
    setups not paying off, he did say that during one (unspecified) scene
    he laughed harder than he has at any movie in the last 5 years.  And he
    said there were other *very* funny moments, one of which was when Jim
    Carrey was trying to get off a plane (?).  S&E agreed that Carrey is
    going places in a big way--a surprise to Ebert, who after seeing Ace
    Ventura "would have paid almost any amount of money NOT to have to see
    him in anything again".
    
    I plan to see it -
    Leslie

I saw this movie over the weekend, and I, like Ebert, laughed harder than 
at any other movie in at least five years.  

Unlike Ace Ventura, there aren't tons of funny lines that you'll go on 
reciting for days.  The comedy comes in the form of slapstick. 

Jim Carey was his unusual self, and Jeff Daniels played a pretty good dumb guy
as well.


Mike.

    I actually enjoyed it more than I thought I would.  I recommend it to
    anyone who enjoys slapstick and humor!!!
    			Enjoy
    steve

    
    A certain classic.  Loads of scatological humor, slapstick,
    scatalogical slapstick ( use your imagination here, and yes, the pun
    was intended - sorry ).  I laughed so damn hard my sides were literally 
    hurting when I left the theatre.
    
    	The best bit for me was the snowball fight . . .
    
    						- Jimbo
    

    I admit, I went and saw it.  I did laugh, periodically, but by and
    large, it wasn't as funny as I had expected/hoped.  
    
    However, youngsters (esp. boys) seemed to have a ball.  There was a
    lot of bathroom humor.  Jim Carrey's timing seemed off.  Jeff Daniels
    was kinda cute with his frizzy hair and puppy-dog suit, but I kept
    wondering if he watched himself afterwards and was embarassed just a
    bit.  
    
    It was, I guess, all right.  
    
    **.5 out of ****
    
    
    kim 

    Well, there were definitely funny *bits* (I liked Harry's crack
    regarding his experience in dog breeding; I liked the annoying duet in
    the pooch van) but I'm totally bewildered about which scene had Ebert 
    laughing so hard.  I kept waiting for the HUGE hilarious scene... um, 
    I'm still waiting.  Maybe it was one of the many on the trailer.
    
    The snowball scene struck me as a desperation sequence--the director
    MUST have been trying to kill time with that one.
    
    But I still love Carrey and Daniels,
    Leslie

    Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels were nothing but brilliant in this movie.
    Don't listen to the globe, see it for yourself and decide. I think
    you'll love it.

    I've just seen it for the first time ,on video.....
    
    
    	What a film, it was what you might call a classic Jim Carrey film
    I still laugh every time I think of the opening scene when JC pulls
    up in his limo at the bus stop tochat up the blonde beauty...
    
    			Great entertaining film..
    
    	I just had to make an entry sorry its a wee bit late
    
    			Woody.
    (Lang may yer lum reek!)
    
    
    
    .

    Naaah ... didn't like it much. Much prefferred the Mask, Ace Ventura
    etc.
    
    F'sure there are some funny moments, and Jim Carrey is visually
    hilarious, but it just came across as pretty much "been there" and
    ill-thought-out. Loved the Jerry Lewis cameo tho ...

    For me the memorable out loud laffs -
    
    The TurboLax
    The Opening Limo Scene
    The Diner Scene (Soup Of The Day)
    
    (the turbolax was hilarious - "Be Right Out! - I'm Shaving!")
    
    

I saw this on video at the weekend and enjoyed a whole lot more than I thought I
would. Funniest scene in the film definitely has to be the "toilet scene", it
just had me rolling with laughter - it brought back so many memories =:-)

Simes.

Re: .16
> Funniest scene in the film definitely has to be the "toilet scene"

If that's the one in the gas station, the redneck guy was played by (now ex-)
Boston Bruin (hockey) winger Cam Neeley. A couple of hockey-fanatic friends of
mine saw the movie and never noticed that it was him. I may not've noticed
either, but I had heard about it beforehand.

Disclaimer: someone else rented this one for the house...

-Jeff

    
>Disclaimer: someone else rented this one for the house...
    
    
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Re .17

>> Funniest scene in the film definitely has to be the "toilet scene"
>
>If that's the one in the gas station, the redneck guy was played by (now ex-)

Nope, sorry. I was referring to the part where Jeff Daniels' character was
suffering the effects of a large dose of laxative !

Simes %^)