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Movie titles lie to us all the time. Did Ralph Fiennes spend more than five minutes at the flowerbeds in The Constant Gardener? Nope. Was there even a moment's calm in Serenity? Hardly. Rarely, though, has a moniker been as misleading as Fun With Dick And Jane. There's Dick. And there's Jane. But the 'Fun' part got lost somewhere along this ill-fortuned remake's tortuous trek to the multiplex.
It aims to update the original's satire of cutthroat capitalism for the Enron era. Which sounds promising, in principle. In practice, though, it gets snared in the same compromise as the George Segal-starring 1977 version. The film's claws don't sink deep enough and its Yuppie couple are too shallow to give a damn about. Going on a crime crusade simply cos you've lost your plasma TV hardly inspires sympathy.
Another remake bites the dust. Jim Carrey may be funnier than George Segal, but this toothless satire still ends up comedically bankrupt.
