A cartoonish Jim Carrey goes up against an actual cartoon, and wins.
, Carrey’s co-star is an infinitely elastic blog of computer-generated imagery, which means that he’s not going up against another stiff-lipped human. He’s face to face with his functional replacement.
It’s hard to say whether Carrey’s one-man-show style of comedy went out of fashion on its own, or if Carrey helped hasten its demise. Whether tastes changed or Carrey just chose to take a break, he wasn’t much of a presence in 2010s cinema, mixing a handful of mainstream starring roles with bit parts, cameos, and a melancholic Michel Gondry TV series. And as he stepped back, another source of kid-friendly comedy took over: big-budget computer animation.
When a visibly older Carrey arrives to relentlessly pursue Sonic across an empty highway, a small town, and the streets of San Francisco, it plays like a former star returning to vanquish his younger rival. It’s hard to tell what contemporary kids will make of Carrey’s shtick, which the movie screeches to a halt to indulge.
Carrey can be brilliantly funny, though a lot of his broad comedies are not. Some of his best-known work is more physical feat than well-executed farce. When he beats the hell out of himself in, it’s the comedy equivalent of a more serious actor doing an uncanny imitation: a spectacular stunt, often unmoored from the rickety movie giving him the excuse. Even without such gymnastics, hisperformance makes a meal of every sneering put-down from Dr.
In other words, Carrey out-cartoons the cartoons. Watching Carrey in a mainstream kiddie comedy again feels a little like comparing the mostly hand-drawn animation of
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