Yowazzup: A Directory of Happening Things

A Christmas Carol is an animated retelling of the Charles Dickens novel about Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey), a Victorian-era miser who is taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions. Starring Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth. A Christmas Carol opens on November 6, 2009.

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I Love You Phillip Morris is a comedy starring Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor and Leslie Mann. I Love You Phillip Morris will open on March 20, 2009.

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Yes Man is a comedy starring funnyman, Jim Carrey. The movie is based on the true story and 2005 book "The Yes Man" by British humorist Danny Wallace. Wallace has a cameo in the film.

SPOILER WARNING: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Jim Carrey in "Yes Man"

Carl Allen (Jim Carrey) is a junior loan officer with very low self esteems after his ex-wife, Stephanie (Molly Sims) divorces him. Almost every answer from him is a certain "no" until he meets his old pal, Nick (John Michael Higgins) who has traveled the world. Nick invites Carl to a motivational seminar by Terrence Bundley and after going through many unfortunate series of events, Carl decides to give the seminar a try. The motivator, Terrence Bundley (Terence Stamp) manages to convince Carl and has made a covenant with him that he will say "yes" to everything from now onwards.

Through a series of event after the seminar, Carl meets Allison (Zooey Deschanel), a beautiful woman who gives him a ride to his car, which has no gas from the gas station. And by saying "yes" to many things at work, Carl is also promoted and given a raise in the bank. Carl also decides to go to a small gig through a piece of flyer distributed by a man outside the bar which he used to reject incessantly. There, he realizes Allison is the lead singer of "Munchausen by Proxy". He also learns that she does this thing called "jogging photography" in the early morning and decides to join her. However, when his friend calls him to join him at the bar for an all-night drinking, he accepts since he does not want to break the covenant. He ends up still high when he joins Allison for the "jogging photography" the next morning.

As Carl and Allison’s relationship progresses, they travel around the States by going to the airport and buy the plane tickets spontaneously without knowing where the destination is. Carl also manages to learn how to fly a plane, play a guitar and Korean language which proves to be useful at the time he needs it to save a man from jumping off a building and when he talks to a lonely Korean wedding planner staff called Soo-Mi. At work, Carl’s get promoted to the Corporate while his manager loses his job due to the closure of a few of the bank branches.

When the FBI arrests Carl out of suspicion from a series of events that have happened including buying air tickets spontaneously, taking flight lessons, dating a Persian woman and learning Korean — all which have made the FBI becomes questioning whether Carl is a terrorist. Carl’s lawyer and his best friend, Peter (Bradley Cooper) manages to convince the FBI and let both Carl and Allison off the hook. However, Allison learns that Carl has been saying "yes" to almost everything just because he didn’t want to break the covenant and she becomes upset and leaves him.

Carl’s ex-wife calls Carl when her boyfriend dumps her but Carl refuses to get back together with Stephanie.

After appearing in Terrence’s (the motivational speaker) car out of nowhere in order to ask him to break the covenant, they both ends up in the hospital when Terrence’s car crashes. After finding out the truth that the covenant is just a cover-up and saying "yes" is all up to an individual, Carl wastes no time as he borrows Lee’s Ducati (whose loan he has approved earlier) and rides to Allison’s "jogging photography" class to win her back. Make sure you stay back when the credits appear at the end of the film as Carl and Allison go for buggy rollin down a hill.

Overall, Yes Man is a funny film and a pretty good one. Jim Carrey gave a solid performance and this is one of the best since Liar Liar back in 1997. I would definitely say "yes" if I have another chance to watch this movie for the second time.

My ratings: 8 out of 10.

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Yes Man is about a guy (played by Jim Carrey) challenges himself to say “yes” to everything for an entire year. Yes, I am going to watch this film. Release date: December 19, 2008.

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Horton Hears a Who! is an animated film based on Dr. Seuss book featuring the voices of Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett, and Will Arnett. Produced by Academy Award winning computer animation studio Blue Sky Studios which is owned by 20th Century Fox, Horton Hears a Who! is the fourth feature film by Blue Sky Studios after Ice Age: The Meltdown.

SPOILER WARNING: Plot and/or ending details follow.

One day, Horton the Elephant (Jim Carrey) is doing his daily routine of having fun when he discovers a tiny speck of dust which is flying around after it is taken out of from its place by the wind. Horton hears a cry for help from the tiny speck. Despite the fact that he cannot see anything from the speck, he chooses to help. He runs all over the jungle just to save the speck.

Jim Carrey is the voice of Horton in Horton Hears A Who!

The speck of dust turns out to contain a small city of Whoville with residents of Whos living in the city. Horton tries and finally manages to make contact with the Mayor of Whoville (Steve Carell) who responds back despite the initial ambiguity. When Horton convinces the Mayor by changing the weather of Whoville, the Mayor believes Horton right away. Though Horton’s friends do not believe Horton’s story of people living in the speck, they gleefully play along by carrying a clover flower each.

As Horton assumes the responsibility of protecting the Whos and their home, he learns that the Mayor of Whoville has a wife, 96 daughters and one son named JoJo (Jesse McCartney) who all share a bathroom!

Sour Kangaroo (Carol Burnett), a busybody and overprotective kangaroo who is skeptical about the existence of lives on the speck, tries every possible ways to get rid of the speck. She even makes deal with the evil monkeys and the eagle hitman Vlad Vladikoff (Will Arnett) to do her dirty work.

When Sour Kangaroo manages to convince the entire jungle about Horton’s insanity in believing the speck has people living in it, all the animals gather towards Horton to help to bring Whoville to an end. Meanwhile, the people of Whoville do not believe what the Mayor has said after the Councilman (Dan Fogler) has convinced the people of Whoville that the Mayor is a moron. When the people of Whos finally hear Horton’s voice and after the disaster that has happened in Whoville, they believe him. Even the Councilman stands by him. The Mayor then convinces the entire city to make enough noises in order to save the city from being destroyed.

Overall, it’s one of the best animated films made that is not from Pixar or Disney. Quoted from Horton, “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” Indeed.

My ratings: 8 out of 10.

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