# "The Yes Man": the new Jim Carrey Movie
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-yes-man-the-new-jim-carrey-movie/477450
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 16, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-yes-man-the-new-jim-carrey-movie/477450 "2008-12-16T20:33:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@jharvey963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharvey963)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-yes-man-the-new-jim-carrey-movie/477450/1 "2008-12-16T20:33:19Z")
I saw this movie last night in a sneak preview. Without trying to give it too big of a build up, I laughed my a\*\* off! There are a lot of very funny moments, and a few cringe-inducing (on purpose) moments. But there was also a story to the movie. It wasn’t just Jim Carrey being silly.
So I’d recommend this movie. What did everyone else think?
J.
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### Author:  [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-yes-man-the-new-jim-carrey-movie/477450/2 "2008-12-16T20:37:13Z")
Isn’t it pretty much just Liar, Liar 2?
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-yes-man-the-new-jim-carrey-movie/477450/3 "2008-12-16T22:19:35Z")
What do _I_ think? _I_ think you work for Warner Bros.
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### Author:  [@jharvey963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharvey963)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-yes-man-the-new-jim-carrey-movie/477450/4 "2008-12-16T22:28:29Z")
> [@Cat\_Fight](#):
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> What do _I_ think? _I_ think you work for Warner Bros.
Ok, this isn’t the pit, so let’s be polite. No, I don’t work for Warner Brothers. I just see a lot of movies. And I was happy enough with this one to give it my recommendation. Search on my user name and you’ll find that I’m a pretty active member of this community, not a troll.
J.
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### Author:  [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-yes-man-the-new-jim-carrey-movie/477450/5 "2008-12-16T22:32:45Z")
Haven’t seen it but I’ve read the book it was based on which was extremely funny, so I will probably see the film at some point (my indifference towards Jim Carey notwithstanding).
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### Author:  [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-yes-man-the-new-jim-carrey-movie/477450/6 "2008-12-16T22:48:11Z")
> [@Daddypants](#):
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> Isn’t it pretty much just Liar, Liar 2?
Yes.
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### Author:  [@Shawn1767](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn1767)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-yes-man-the-new-jim-carrey-movie/477450/7 "2008-12-16T22:53:16Z")
I was at a test audience in the spring for this movie. Jim Carrey was in attendance. The audience laughed a lot, but I thought it was pretty “meh.” And yeah, it seemed like a return to the “old” Jim Carrey, the one I didn’t like when he was a mugging for the camera goofball.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-yes-man-the-new-jim-carrey-movie/477450/8 "2008-12-16T23:06:40Z")
> [@jharvey963](#):
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> Ok, this isn’t the pit, so let’s be polite. No, I don’t work for Warner Brothers. I just see a lot of movies. And I was happy enough with this one to give it my recommendation. Search on my user name and you’ll find that I’m a pretty active member of this community, not a troll.
Sorry. I am a jerk who feels silly using smileys (I know, I know). I do know studio flacks who troll message boards to gauge reaction to shows or movies they’re promoting, but I don’t truly think you’re one (and doubt they’d ever go on the Dope).
I just think it sucks based on the trailer. i had the opportunity to see it and… couldn’t. I understand no one’s letting Carrey escape his usual slapstick schtick, not after his recent thriller bombs, but while I did appreciate him at one point it now feels so very old.
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-yes-man-the-new-jim-carrey-movie/477450/9 "2008-12-16T23:47:01Z")
> [@jharvey963](#):
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> I saw this movie last night in a sneak preview. Without trying to give it too big of a build up, I laughed my a\*\* off! There are a lot of very funny moments, and a few cringe-inducing (on purpose) moments. But there was also a story to the movie. It wasn’t just Jim Carrey being silly.
I’m going to have to take your word for this assessment, obviously, but if it’s true, then the persons responsible for the trailer managed to convey the polar opposite impression, since the trailer has no funny moments, gives no indication it has a semblance of a plot, and convincingly argues that it’s nothing but Jim Carrey being silly.
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### Author:  [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2008, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-yes-man-the-new-jim-carrey-movie/477450/10 "2008-12-17T15:39:10Z")
> [@Daddypants](#):
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> Isn’t it pretty much just Liar, Liar 2?
I thought the idea behind Liar Liar was a good one and struggled to watch it but gave up in the end because of Jim Careys gurning,overacting and silly voices.
It might have been a genuinly funny film without all that overegging of the pudding but now I will never know.
Just make my declarations, I haven’t seen most of his films and have no strong views about the man one way or the other.
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### Author:  [@Hi\_Neighbor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hi_Neighbor)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-yes-man-the-new-jim-carrey-movie/477450/11 "2008-12-17T15:42:16Z")
I won’t see this because of the obligatory heart-warming scene where the main character finally “finds” himself and changes for the better.
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### Author:  [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-yes-man-the-new-jim-carrey-movie/477450/12 "2008-12-17T15:51:51Z")
> [@Lust4Life](#):
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> I thought the idea behind Liar Liar was a good one and struggled to watch it but gave up in the end because of Jim Careys gurning,overacting and silly voices.
> It might have been a genuinly funny film without all that overegging of the pudding but now I will never know.
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> Just make my declarations, I haven’t seen most of his films and have no strong views about the man one way or the other.
Your first paragraph would seem to contradict the second.
I doubt he’ll be as goofy in The Yes Man as he was in Liar Liar, Ace Ventura, or any other 90s movie. He seems to have calmed down significantly since The Truman Show. Kind of a shame, really. He cracked me the hell up.