I am gradually developing a suspicion, or perhaps it is a fear, that Jim Carrey is growing on me. Am I becoming a fan? In “Liar Liar” he works tirelessly, inundating us with manic comic energy. Like the class clown who’ll do anything for a laugh, Carrey at one point actually pounds himself with a toilet seat. And gets a laugh.

The movie is a high-energy comeback from 1996′s dismal “The Cable Guy”, which made the mistake of giving Carrey an unpleasant and obnoxious character to play. Here Carrey is likable and sympathetic, in a movie that will play for the whole family, entertaining each member on a different level (he’s a master at combining slapstick for the kids with innuendo for the grownups).

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As the title character of THE CABLE GUY (Columbia, PG-13), Jim Carrey thrusts out his jaw and speaks in a sulky, nagging lisp, as if he were Jay Leno’s infantile brother. Has any other performer derived this much joy from acting this undignified? Carrey plays a pathological leech, a cable-TV serviceman, the cable guy, who latches onto a yuppie customer (Matthew Broderick) and convinces himself that the poor sap is his new best buddy. Calling himself Chip Douglas (from My Three Sons, one of the shows that haunt his TV-addled brain), he invades Broderick’s home and office, leaving endless messages on his answering machine, crashing – and I mean crashing – his amateur basketball game, bombarding him with pop-psych homilies on how to win back his girlfriend, and, in general, turning his pursuit of “friendship” into a thinly disguised act of sadistic terrorism.

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From Jerry Lewis to Eddie Murphy, the bottom-line rule of thumb in contemporary American film comedy has been that the more control a performer has over his movies, the less funny – less daring, more self-indulgent – they become. Not so Jim Carrey, whose fourth starring role, in ACE VENTURA: WHEN NATURE CALLS (Warner Bros., PG-13), is his best yet. Unlike so many superstar comics before him, Carrey has retained a raw hunger for The Joke – the killer punchline, the ultimate sight gag – that seems insatiable, and this gives his work a furious, omnivorous energy. Even when the jokes are as corny as this movie’s subtitle is, Carrey regularly squeezes a laugh out of you through sheer force of will.

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This film flies at you with “blockbuster” written all over it, from the second the Warner Bros. logo mutates into that ubiquitious bat-shape (the mere sight of which, at the screening I attended, provoked a flurry of cheers, fists in the air, and, inexplicably, a cry of “Go, girl!”-before the credits had even started) and the roller coaster ride begins. It’s an apt metaphor, for Batman Forever careens from one high to the next, builds the suspense with occasional lows, progresses to an epic climax, and remembers to leave room for a sigh of relief at the end.

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Rubbery handsome, with a chipped front tooth, fashion-disaster bangs, and the eager dimples of a depraved gopher, Jim Carrey turns his face and body into a special effect – a human morph machine – in DUMB and DUMBER (New Line, PG-13). He’s playing a geek called Lloyd Christmas who thinks he’s hot stuff, and though we’ve seen this character before (Steve Martin practically invented it), Carrey, zigzagging between twinkly-eyed infomercial-pitchman bravado and sheer manic idiocy, does the postmodern smart-dumb clod with a new kind of whiplash abandon.

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Jim Carrey pulls off yet another hit playing Stanley Ipkiss and the Mask. The star of the runaway hit Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is back, and he’s as hyperactive as ever – only as the Mask though. As the new accounts guy at a bank managed by a spoilt brat, Ipkiss is a mild-mannered blundering dodo, until he dons the mask where he is transformed into someone who doesn’t hold back from doing what his innermost desires want.

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I saw Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Not much to say about this one, except that it reflects the trend that stupid nonsensical behaviour can be considered “cool” and might even be productive (ala Beavis and Butt-head and Wayne’s World). If you go to movies like these and hate them, then you take life too seriously. These are meant to be laughed off at. The easier option, of course, is not see them at all, since it is a waste of time.

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Also known as the ‘James’ period. Some of the funniest stuff Carrey ever did on was on ‘In Living Color.’ He also apparently got in trouble for some of them. People Magazine says that a national coalition of fire prevention groups called for his sketches of Fire Marshall Bill to be pulled off the air because of the negative effect it was having on children. Since ILC was an comedy/variety show it is difficult to categorize what Carrey did on it in a few sentences.

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This in NOT the official Ernie page,

Never heard about Ernie, Sid, Effie and all the others from Bayonne ? If you haven’t … you have sure missed out one of the reason to live. My history as an fan of Ernie aren’t to long (sadly), it all started when the serie was in the Calvin and Hobbes comic. Yes, yes … i have to admit that i once was young and didn’t know better (althought Calvin and Hobbes are a good number two for me).

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