需要金凯瑞yesman的英文影评
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This alleged comedy revolves around a man who agrees to say yes to everything, with life-changing consequences. The star is Jim Carrey who, judging by his recent efforts, suffers from the same affliction, only with less remarkable results.
Based on Danny Wallace's book, the man formally known as Ace Ventura is professional sadsack Carl Allen, a bank clerk who's been stuck in a rut since his girlfriend upped and left him. Now a professional sofa surfer with no interests other than feeling sorry for himself, things take a turn for the weird when a pal bullies Carl into attending a seminar whose lead speaker (Terence Stamp) urges him to take affirmative action to change his fortunes. And pretty soon Carl has a new girl (Zooey Deschanel) and a new outlook.
Yes Man isn't a bad comedy, it's just not very funny. Carrey gurns and flashes his trademark zany grin like someone who's forgotten to take their lithium, while Deschanel is kooky as the geeky girlfriend.
There may be worse ways to spend Boxing Day but not many.
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There are about three different comedies shuttling around uncomfortably inside the loose frame of Yes Man, and all of them probably would have been more successful on their own. It starts as a high-concept, "what if...?" comedy straight from the Liar, Liar playbook, morphs for a while into an overly twee "opposites attract" kind of romance, and ends with a mess of self-help platitudes and clincher scenes that seem airlifted in from other movies. The narrative meandering is matched by an inconsistent, overly vulgar comedic tone, so while scene by scene it can be funny, it all starts to feel pointless long before Yes Man reaches the end.
Surprisingly, Jim Carrey isn't at the root of the problem. For a comedian whose most successful role of the decade was sullen Joel in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Carrey's rubber face and manic energy are welcome here, picking up the slack in scenes where the writing is lacking. He even starts off a little like Joel, playing bank loan agent Carl, who's so depressed over his divorce three years that he still stays home and watches 300 rather than getting out in the world. It doesn't help that his only social options are his over-enthusiastic, geeky boss Norman (Rhys Darby), smugly engaged Peter (Bradley Cooper) and Lucy (Sasha Alexander), and the entirely personality-free Danny Masterson.
But somehow an old friend talks Carl into joining him at a "Yes Man" self-help conference, where nutty New Age guru Terrence (Terrence Stamp, hilarious) admonishes him to start saying "yes" to every single question. Immediately after Carl says yes to a homeless man's request to drive him into a park, which kicks off a chain of events that leads Carl to Allison (Zooey Deschanel), a standard-issue free spirit who rides a scooter and sings in a concept art band called Munchausen by Proxy. As Carl keeps saying yes to everything else, from throwing Lucy a bridal shower to taking Korean lessons, life leads him repeatedly back to Allison, and they start up a strange, age-inappropriate romance.
The pickles that Carl gets himself into as a "yes man" range from truly funny, like Norman's Harry Potter party, to downright icky, like his tryst with his elderly neighbor (You know those randy old lady jokes! They never get old!) Even some of the scenes that are more inspired, like a bar fight or Carl's unexpected friendship with a Korean store clerk, go on so long that they drain the humor out of the setup. It's a problem that applies to the movie as a whole: great concept, but no one has any idea what to do with it once they've gotten there.
Screenwriters Nicholas Stoller (having done such a better job on Forgetting Sarah Marshall), Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel must have known going in that the concept of Yes Man provides a serious narrative problem. If saying yes to everything automatically makes Carl's life better, where's the conflict? For about an hour and a half the movie progresses as if none of this crossed their minds, with Carl and Allison frolicking in their romance and all of Carl's customers leaving his desk with their loans happily in hand. Because this was made before "subprime mortgage" became a bad word, the money issues are left alone as conflict, and instead Homeland Security-- no kidding-- comes along to play bad guy and break up the happy couple. The issues at hand are genuine, with Allison asking Carl, if he says "yes" to everything, how can she know what he really wants or needs? But it's all handled in such a rushed way that it never fits into the overall story, and the movie can only answer its own questions in a fit of aphorisms and self-help talk near the end.
Yes Man wins points for not being excessively crude or mean, even though several swear words and "naughty" scenes seem mostly inserted to get the PG-13 rating that teenage boys will want to see. A few tweaks could have made this a gentler, PG, family-targeted movie, and I think it would have been better for it. As it is Yes Man is reaching to be both raunchy boy humor and broad-appeal Jim Carrey movie, both making fun of self-help gurus and accepting their teachings as fact, and generally throwing every kind of joke at the wall to see what sticks. Some of it does, more of it doesn't, and the whole jumbled proction suffers from the lack of coherent vision.
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Yes Man is based on Danny Wallace's book chronicling his life after vowing to say yes to everything for a year. As a result all kinds of extraordinary things happened to the freelance radio procer including winning $45,000, meeting a hypnotic dog, earning a nursing degree and attending a meeting by a group that believed aliens built the pyramids in Egypt. Unfortunately in Yes Man, no such interesting things befall Carl Allen (Jim Carrey). Instead we get yet another dose of amped up Carrey delivering his usual face-pulling, pratfalling shtick.
Adopting a philosophy of saying yes to every proposition or invitation would inevitably lead to some unlikely scenarios, but Yes Man's three screenwriters and director Peyton Reed have used it as a license to exploit the ridiculous. As a consequence of the film's overarching tone of stupidity, it's impossible to buy into those rare moments when it endeavors to take an even slightly more tender tack.
Without knowing Wallace, the assumption is that he possesses an outgoing, adventurous nature, which makes his undertaking somewhat in keeping with his character. The difference is that in the film when we first meet Allen he is an unlikable, anti-social bore whose default response to any invitation is to say no. A junior loan officer at a bank, his career is going nowhere. His personal life is no better. Still struggling with his divorce from Stephanie (Molly Sims), he spends his nights alone watching videos and ignoring phone calls from his best friend Peter (Bradley Cooper). Indeed, considering how he treats Peter, it's a wonder he even has any friends.
But after being dragged reluctantly to a seminar by the motivational speaker (Terrence Stamp) for a movement whose slogan is "Yes is the New No," Allen adopts their policy of saying Yes to everything. Allen's transformation is immediate and drastic. Overnight he becomes carefree, fun-loving and gregarious. It's not as though his redemption is inspired by the series of absurd events that follow. That would have perhaps required a degree of subtlety and depth on the part of the screenwriters and Carrey who instead are more interested in mining for mb humour, of which there is plenty.
Inevitably there is a romantic thread. It involves Allen and the eccentric Allison (Zooey Deschanel), a singer in an art rock band at night and by day the leader of a group that combines jogging and photography. Stealing the movie is Rhys Darby as Norman, Allen's boss at the bank. Darby brings echoes of his hilarious role as the band's manager in Flight of the Conchords. But even his efforts can't save Yes Man from being dismissed as further proof that Carrey's once shining star has lost its luster.
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I have gone on record many times with my love for Jim Carrey and that Dumb & Dumber is and will always be one of my all-time favorite comedies, and it’s with those two loves that I chose to sit down ring the holiday season to check out Carrey’s return to what he does best: make people laugh.
Let’s be clear about this: I love funny Jim Carrey, the Carrey from Ace Ventura, Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty and even The Cable Guy and I do love serious Jim Carrey, the Carrey from Man on the Moon, The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and even the dark Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, and while I don’t think Yes Man is on par with any of his other hilarious hits, it’s still a nice return for him to comedy.
The story is quite simple in that Carrey stars as “Carl Allen,” a mostly-negative loan officer who, after attending a self-help conference that preaches to say “Yes” to all opportunities and propositions, makes a covenant with the conference guru (played pretty well by Terrence Stamp) to say “yes” to everything that comes his way. Naturally, mild hilarity and silly situations ensue as he says “yes” to everything including giving a homeless guy all of his money (which leads him to the love interest, “Allison” played awkwardly, though that’s her usual character so it’s quite charming, by Zooey Deschanel), dressing up and attending a Harry Potter party, agreeing to be sexually pleased by his very old neighbor (which was a scene that totally should have been eliminated and was only left in to attract the PG-13 boys), which are all situations that eventually lead to good and positive changes in his life.
And that’s where, to me, the film loses its stamina. It’s almost like the writers didn’t know how to create the conflict, when everything goes his way by saying “yes” to everything, how do you introce an antagonist if you’re trying to get the message across to be open to possibilities in your life? Well, unfortunately, you only have a couple of hours to accomplish character, story, conflict, resolution, and a climax, and the writers of Yes Man chose the last 25 minutes to introce the conflict, resolve it, and lead you to the climax of the story. The ending all felt rushed and fake and I didn’t buy the tension that was created when Carl’s (Carrey) automatic agreeing to everything lead to questions of his authenticity in relationships and if he really was being honest or not. They should have started a natural progression of semi-negative consequences from his total “yes-ness” to everything instead of causing the movie to come to sudden halt and present us with a contrived conflict.
One of the things I liked seeing in this movie was Carrey’s age lines. He’s 46 years old and for the first time that I’ve seen in his movies, the man with the rubber face is actually showing signs of aging. I say it’s about time, it was to me a very realistic sign that he can’t do what he does forever. The days of beating the crap out of himself for a laugh are now going to be limited and the toll it takes will be visible. I think you see the beginnings of it in Yes Man. The comedy here is safe, it’s nothing that Carrey is not used to doing, but it’s also not comedy that will blow you away or affect the way you view Carrey. I think this is a safe return to physical and laugh-out-loud comedy for him and maybe it’ll help people forget when he tried VERY HARD to be hardcore and be taken for a twisted-horror-movie-actor with The Number 23. Jim Carrey flat out wants to make people laugh and I think it shows in every comedy he does. His energy is there and he is pretty much always funny (even in the crappy films), I think. I don’t think he needs to ONLY do comedies (Eternal Sunshine and Man on the Moon are 2 of my all-time Carrey favorites) and I don’t think he’s lost it at all.
5
Now for years, since I was a young boy (well I guess I still am) I have been a fan of Jim Carey. I don't think there is one movie of his that I do not like, even the non-comedies. Now is that because I am such a fan I have to like them or are they that good, I'd like to think they are that good.
Yes Man! is no exception to that list. If you haven't seen the commercial for this movie, its about a guy that always said no and never did anything with his life. He of course started a program that got him to always say yes. Before I get into it, even that premise sound awesome.
At first I thought this movie was just going to be a comedy. And it was one hell of a comedy at that, but it was more then that. I have been watching many shows and movies these days and I haven't laughed out load in a long time, this movie made me do it multiple times. Jim Carey is at his best. I don't need to go over certain parts to explain how well it was shot and done, it would destroy the film for you if I did.
The amazing part about this well done comedy is that it was not just a comedy, the life lesson learned in the movie, and the thought out acts in the movie are truely heart felt. It really got me thinking about doing more things and saying yes. I could really relate to the character in the movie.
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I’m glad he’s following some of my recommendations by using his extraordinary talents in amusing movies like Yes Man.
Happily, Carrey romps through this movie with his usual kinetic energy and enthusiasm. He plays Carl Allen, a formerly closed-off man who discovers that saying “Yes” to every opportunity brings him multiple benefits. This “carpe diem” theme serves as a showcase for Carrey’s comedy skills. When his character breaks out of his shell, he plays the guitar, sings, speaks Korean, speeds on a motorcycle, overdoses on “Red Bull,” attends off-the-wall concerts, plans a wedding shower, and dresses like Harry Potter for a costume party put on by his silly fanboy boss (Rhys Darby).
Accepting the affirmative also results in our hero meeting Allison (Zooey Deschanel), a lovely young woman with strange interests, such as taking pictures of others while she’s running. Of course, romance blossoms between these two — and it’s great fun watching them get to know each other. Carrey and Deschanel (Elf ) project a delightful screen chemistry here, and I’d like to see them in more films together. (I felt the same way about Carrey and Tea Leoni in Fun with Dick and Jane, but sorry to say, they haven’t paired up again.)
Despite Mae West’s belief that “too much of a good thing can be wonderful,” sometimes it can lead to serious problems. In Yes Man, that’s exactly what happens. Will Carl learn how to be more reasonable about the opportunities he accepts? If so, how will that impact his relationship with Allison? Those two questions may make the movie sound like a downer, but don’t worry. It’s designed strictly for laughs — and there are plenty of them in this new Carrey comedy.
While not a perfect film (for example, Fionnula Flanagan, so great in The Others, appears in a couple of crude and insulting scenes), Yes Man is highly entertaining. Besides Carrey and Deschanel, actors who add to the movie’s appeal include: Terrence Stamp (Wanted), almost scary as a self-help guru; Bradley Cooper (Wedding Crashers), suitably worried as Carl’s best friend; and the always funny John Michael Higgins (The Break-Up) as the man who introces Carl to the “Yes Man” philosophy.
Director Peyton Reed (Down with Love) moves Yes Man along with a lively pace, and the screenplay by Nicholas Stoller (Fun with Dick and Jane), Jarrad Paul (TV’s Living with Fran), and Andrew Mogel — from Danny Wallace’s book — boasts witty dialogue, especially the banter between the characters played by Carrey and Deschanel.
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