I actually loved Carrey in those movies, his berserk energy was perfectly suited.
Unpopular opinion; he was amazing as the Riddler.
I think people overlook the way his energy has a dark undertone sometimes. There’s something in his high energy performances that throws red flags for me, in a mental health emergency kinda way. But I like that in him.
I have a troubled family, and Jim Carrey reminds me of a particular uncle of mine who has severe bipolar and ADHD, among other things. I think most people find his performances funny because they can’t imagine being in the room with someone who behaves that way.
Have you watched Kidding? The Jim Carrey show about him being a dark Mister Rogers?
I worried about him, too. I saw him following the Robin Williams playbook for a while. But unlike Williams, Carrey has been very public about his mental health and is actively working on it. So I feel like unless something goes horribly wrong, he’ll be fine. True creative geniuses usually need help keeping themselves grounded, but seldom does anyone reach out to give it to them.
Most everyone could use that kind of help from time to time.
The intro scene on mushroom planet was great
To be fair, 2 years a solid break from most things. I could use 2 years off my job
He’s great in it. Can’t blame the man, he gave wonderful performances.
That said, cash speaks.
Jim has no shortage of cash.
I always knew Carrey was an Adventure 2 fan.
Script, or check?
Maybe fun? That passage reads to me that he’s at the point of his career where he can pick and choose his work, and will only agree to it if he can goof off doing whatever the fuck he wants.
Tbh, he’s been at that point in his career for a long, long time.
He absolutely has. I think that’s part of why we haven’t seen him in a ton of things in the last 15 or so years. I know he went through a phase where he primarily filled his time with painting, and he had a giant warehouse studio where he’d spend gobs of his time pouring himself into stretched canvass. Maybe this is just his next step…
will only agree to it if he can goof off doing whatever the fuck he wants.
Well that IS how all of his best and worst work came about, after all… With the possible exception of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 🤷
I’d bet a lot of money that doing voice work is a lot easier than being in a live action production. Not saying it’s trivial, just potentially way more flexible, especially with how easy it is to splice different audio tracks together, which probably means fewer takes are required. And on top of that, there’s fewer people that need to coordinate to record those takes (especially considering live action takes likely requires more audio engineering support because it isn’t done in an audio recording studio).
It might be like a pilot deciding they are done flying commercial jets but don’t mind flying a smaller jet from time to time.
He’s live action in those films. Only Sonic is CG.
But I mean regardless, in his defense, they were good kids movies and he was great in them (in the genre of kids movie villain). But more importantly in his defense: he probably took a break, and got recharged. He’s been pretty open about his mental health struggles, so he probably thought he would never come back unless it was amazing, took a break, got recharged, starting getting itchy to work/bored, and then he either liked the script, saw it as particularly low stress/fun, or just wanted some money.
He also might have been contracted for the role already. His contract for the first or second movie likely had something about sequels in it.
