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Fun With Dick and Jane
PG-13 for brief language, some sexual humor and occasional humorous drug references;
Jim Carrey settles for rehashing broad mania in the new remake of "Fun With Dick and Jane," in which he and Tea Leoni play Dick and Jane Harper, who were embodied by George Segal and Jane Fonda in the 1977 original.
If you're of a certain seasoning, you'll remember Dick, Jane, Sally (omitted from the films) and Spot from elementary school primers. Neither of the films pays more than lip service to the notion that the child characters have grown into upwardly mobile suburbanites who lose their jobs, become inept criminals and save the day with by the application of values salvaged from a simpler age.
Carrey's Dick is the new corporate vice president of spin doctoring at an Enron-like company that tanks when smug CEO Jack McAllister (Alec Baldwin) rips off the employee pension plan for hundreds of millions.
Because the original had a good premise that wasn't executed well, it was ripe for a remake. The closest the remake gets to a functioning joke is having the couple's child speak with the Hispanic maid's accent.
