The life of a married couple, Jane and Dick, who have been acquired wealth, has been turned upside down when they lost all the money they have collected throughout their life, as they lost all the money and suffer from the debts they have, the thing that leads them to steal and enter the world of crimes.
In a strange way, it's fitting that a movie about people out of work should itself barely work.
ComingSoon.net
March 22, 2011
Fun with Dick and Jane is an extended Enron joke used to give Jim Carrey plenty of opportunity to mug for the camera. Everything else is more or less perfunctory to that.
The downward mobility of the middle class straight to the poverty level, or crime often not as evil, but rather economic desperation, are plot points hardly likely to sit well with those who control this economy and profit from it.
They are funny bits, but there are too few of them. Fun With Dick and Jane just isn't all that fun.
Hollywood.com
August 24, 2006
This cynical look at how the American family can only achieve their dreams through crime is a bit more of a political statement rather than comedic entertainment.
Consider it a signed confession of remake rape when a "produced by Jim Carrey" credit appears atop his noodle-limbed exaggeration of "I Believe I Can Fly." his corporate-greed satire doesn't just lack bite. It lacks gnaw. It even lacks nibble.
